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Show TOUGH GOING IN I THE PACIFIC SAYS ARMY MAN Lieutenant-General Alexander A. Vandegrift, Commandant of the U. S. Marine Corps and commander of the Marines on Guadalcanal, warns that the "hardest battles of the war against Japan remain to be joined" and that "the road in any all directions we take will be uphill. up-hill. The going will be tough." Predicting that coming operations opera-tions in the Pacific will "dwarf anything completed" in the war against Japan so far General Vandegrift Van-degrift says that 'our forces will be up against a still dangerous Japanese Navy and a Japanese Army as yet only lightly hit." The Marine Corps Commandant should know what he is talking about. Obviously, his estimate of the situation is correct unless the Japanese can be brought to their knees by aerial bombardment of their cities and naval blockade of their islands. Even then, we may expect the fanatical troopsjof the Emperor to resist unto death and the process of killing them will inevitably in-evitably involve the death of many Americans. |