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Meanwhile, the U. S. Fleet, now based at Pearl Harbor, would have a chance to act. Convoying tankers, tenders, cargo and repair ships, it could head west to the Orient. Once out of Pearl Harbor the Navy would have to rely on its floating shops and tenders, until it got within range of Singapore. This would involve some risks, but they are risks that most Navy men consider worth while, for under such circumstances they count on winning any major engagement in the neighborhood of the Philippines...
...Navy apparently thinks largely in terms of meeting and beating the main Japanese Fleet at sea. If, when war was once started, the Japanese Fleet elected to play safe and stick close to home-as the Italian Fleet has done in the Mediterranean-no such action might take place...
...Korea. Even that could be harried by submarines. Weakened as she is by her three-year-old war in China, and dependent on supplies and markets overseas, her eventual defeat would be likely. At worst she might hold out until it became necessary to withdraw the U. S. Fleet to the Atlantic. If she then took the Indies, the U. S. would probably be no worse off than if Japan were allowed to seize the Indies...
...have built up a defense force superior to any other in the world. . . . The German people . . . can go about their business with perfect tranquility. Their frontiers are guarded by the best Army in the history of Germany, the air above is protected by the most powerful Air Fleet, and their coasts are rendered unassailable by any enemy power...
...Calais. As the week advanced, they gave the French ports their worst battering of the war. Diving through a howling southwester, a squadron of Blenheim bombers poured their loads into Boulogne, starting fires at the rate of one a minute. At Brest, new Fairey Albacore planes of the Fleet Air Arm plunged through a heavy anti-aircraft barrage to score direct hits on small German naval units at anchor...