"BURN THEM OUT"
Japanese, Like Moles, Dig Into Defensive Hills ADMIRAL MITSCHER'S VIEW Rec. 12.30. NEW YORK, June 21. Vice-Admiral Mare _ Mitscher; leader of the Third Pacific Task Force, addressing a Press conference in Portland, Oregon said. "We will have to burn up th e Jap anse, and I mean burn. . Theyare like a lot of moles Give hill of any size and they will cng a hole and hole-up. They havedone it on every island we have taken, i am sure they will do so on therr mainland. We can plaster them jvith bombs and shells ■, everything on earth, but tney wm still be underground.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 146, 22 June 1945, Page 5
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