Directory for the Pacific coast of the United States, reported to the superintendent of the United States Coast survey

Men and ships and planes are not. You need a lot of them to pull off an invasion, and best we can tell, Yamamoto has all his eggs in one basket. Hawaii." "Do you really think you'd be able to take the islands back from the Japs? They'll have had at least three weeks to dig in, by the time you get there." "That'll just mean there's a nicer gravesite ready for them," promised Jones. HIJMS YAMATO, THE PACIFIC THEATER OF OPERATIONS He could not see the prize he had come to take. It was obscured by the smoke of his own giant guns, and by the burning of so many buildings and fields. But Oahu was definitely there, just ten miles off starboard, the whole island shaking under the thunder of bombardment. The commander of the Combined Fleet did not let his feelings escape. He maintained a stern countenance and refused to join in the celebrations. But he did let his men applaud as reports came back of a sea of fire, engulfing the remains of Nimitz's fleet at Pearl Harbor, and of airfields reduced to smoking rubble and twisted, red hot metal ...»