JAPANESE BLOW
FORESEEN BY AMERICAN COMMANDERS
HOW PLANS WERE MADE
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) WASHINGTON, June 7. Admiral E. J. King, Commander-in-Chief of the U.S.,Fleets, today issued the following Statement giving the background of the events • leading up to the Battle of Midway Island.
"After Brigadier-General Doolittle's raid on Japan, General George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, and I both felt, knowing the Japanese psychology, that some reprisal in kind was inevitable in order that they might 'save face.' Mr. H. L. Stimson, Secretary of War, also emphasised this point. The Coral Sea action, which was another setback to the Japanese, was an additional reason why we should be on our guard. "After the Coral Sea action we lost touch with the heavy Japanese forces
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 134, 9 June 1942, Page 5
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