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...Harbor, and observed that the Japanese probably had not expected their attack to be so successful. Said Admiral Ernest Joseph King: "If they had it to do over, I think you would probably find them moving in with a tremendous invasion force such as they brought against us at Midway...
...battles of the Coral Sea had been fought, the Lexington had been lost and Midway had been won at the cost of the York town when he told the war class of Annapolis midshipmen in June: "War is force-force to the utmost-force to make the enemy yield to our own will-to yield because their own will to fight is broken. War is men against men-mechanized war is still men against...
After Admiral King was called to Washington last December, but before he publicly took command, the Pacific Fleet got its fundamental orders: "Hold the Hawaiian Islands area on the Midway line at all costs," and "Hold the communications line to the southwest Pacific on the Samoa-Fiji line and extend it to New Caledonia" (see map, p. 32). Said Admiral King last week...
King on Offensive: Air assaults on the Japs at Tulagi and the Coral Sea battle of planes v. ships in May were actually the preludes to the Solomons campaign. But the Navy's air victory (with some Army help) at Midway was the real turning point: "Things began to break for us at Midway. We began to get the edge there. . . . After the Midway action we told ourselves: 'Now is the time to hit the Jap in the southwest Pacific...
Admiral King presumably does not forget that in the Coral Sea-Solomons series of actions the Navy has announced loss of three aircraft carriers (not counting one lost at Midway), seven cruisers, 13 destroyers. In the same actions the Navy has claimed the definite sinking of one Japanese carrier, 12 cruisers, one battleship (and possibly another) and 17 destroyers. In the terms of remaining U.S. and Japanese strength-the only terms that count-this balance is favorable to the U.S. in every category except carriers, but the net effect on Pacific sea power is decidedly less than the bare figures...