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They brought what was left of Mineichi Koga to Tokyo in a special train. He had done no great deeds, but he had died (they said) in action-and he was the Commander in Chief of Japan's Fleet. They enshrined him as a minor Shinto god; the Emperor granted him two decorations and a promotion to the rank of Admiral of the Fleet; the radio implored Japanese to "live the Koga...
...Thus did Koga, a small, taciturn man with an egg-shaped head, pass from the stage. But he left it in a whirl of mystery more impressive than his life...
Only eleven months earlier, Koga's famed predecessor, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto ("I am looking forward to dictating peace in the White House . . .") was shot down in his airplane in the South Pacific. The announcement of Koga's death was strangely like that of Yamamoto's: ". . . died at his post in March while directing general operations from an airplane at the front...
...sober military men still stood firm in their predictions of a long war against Japan. Even if the Japs lost Truk (which they will not until many foot soldiers have lost their lives taking it), or if Truk were bypassed, many bases remained for Admiral Koga's Navy: Singapore, Surabaya in Java, Balikpapan in Borneo, Saipan in the Marianas, Manila and the Japanese homeland bases...
...Identification of enemy naval types by U.S. aviators occasionally leaves something to be desired; and last week's communiques on the reconnaissance reports may very well have duplicated each other. But it was clear that the commander of Japan's Combined Fleet, Mineichi Koga, had been stung into action. He sent forward to Rabaul substantial cruiser forces in support of troop and supply ships, still did not commit battleships or carriers so far as U.S. reconnaissance could determine...