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...force struck. Adjacent to Pearl Harbor, mother submarines launched two-man subs. From a point due north of Oahu, carriers launched some 300 planes piloted by the best of Jap naval aviators. For the Japs it was a long chance, but well worth the gamble. Below them lay the Americans, who "had gambled upon having time for preparation that did not exist...
...then prevailing) U.S. command of the east and central Pacific depended. If the Japanese had returned the next day with three divisions of assault troops, supported by air groups from all their carriers (about ten) and gunfire from all their battleships (ten or twelve) they might well have captured Oahu, keystone in the Alaska-Hawaii-Panama defense arch. If so, they would have won that war; the U.S. would have had to start all over...
...Wheeler Field, in the center of Oahu, there are more Liberator heavy bombers withdrawn from combat, either to be cannibalized for parts or "pickled" for future disposition, than there were in combat in the entire Central and South Pacific commands two years...
...same with all the other military installations on Oahu. At Barbers Point, ten miles west of Pearl Harbor, the naval air station has an aircraft-engine reconditioning plant on the conveyor-line principle. It is like many another such plant on the mainland, but it is the first and only one in the Pacific. Detroit technology has been transplanted and flourishes amid the pineapple, sugar and coconut plantations...
...Major General Frederick L. Martin, boss of the ground-bound Army Air Force on Oahu, now retired because of chronic gastric ulcers and increasing deafness, plays golf and listens to phonograph records in West Los Angeles, Calif. General Martin declared: "There's an awful lot that hasn't been told...