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2893 - defeats in debacles

... Washington, January 3, 1942

In the U.S. capital, the last stragglers to sacrifice the traditional and oh so agreed ceremony best.

But in early 1942, they have something particularly shifted since even the most gifted critics are now unable to ignore or even minimize, the constant flow of bad news from the Pacific .

After the disaster of Pearl Harbour , which saw almost all of the Pacific Fleet be at the bottom of the harbor, Guam, U.S. possession since 1898, fell December 10, and the tiny island of Wake - despite his heroic resistance - 23.

On Christmas Day, Hong Kong , pearl of the British Empire, is also passed into the hands of the Japanese, who, having landed in Malacca December 8, now threaten Singapore (1) after be shipped in less than one two jewels of the Royal Navy , the battleship Prince of Wales and the battle cruiser Repulse (2)

But the most serious - from an American perspective means - that Obviously the fall of Manila , 2 January, which bodes ill for the many American soldiers in the Philippines under the leadership of General MacArthur .

If they can not publicly admit to the public, U.S. officials, both civilian and military are well aware that without reinforcements he can not send them, the soldiers said, now isolated in the Bataan Peninsula and the island fortress of Corregidor are condemned to more or less short term which, more than ever, calls for a research fact of "spectacular weapons, failing which change the course of the war will at least make it more bearable ...

(1) Singapore February 15, 1942 fall

(2) Did you know that. .. 661 and 662


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