... Tokyo, April 18, 1942, 12:00 A Tokyo, the 7 million inhabitants of the city are preparing for a new peaceful afternoon, punctuated by speakers of Propaganda installed in all streets and, since the war began, broadcast military music, patriotic slogans and, of course, announcements of victories all the more grandiose than the other.
Fighting take place far away, thousands of miles and, anyway, infantrymen, sailors and airmen Japanese supermen very superior to anything that the enemy can oppose them Western.
The Indies and their precious oil - a goal and challenge of this war - is Japanese for a month, the Americans went to Bataan on April 9 and Corregidor those not have much longer; the Australia now living in psychosis of a Japanese landing and no later than the day before, the Japanese Imperial Army has imposed further humiliation to Britain, taking control of the entire Burma, and rejecting the British troops to India. The time therefore is triumphalism, and how could anyone imagine that not far away at sea, a U.S. submarine, the USS Thresher (SS-200), recently spent several days to ship weather forecasts for a U.S. fleet whose planes are now only a few kilometers from the city ...
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