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WORST BATTLES OF PACIFIC. NEW YORK, September 3. “If Japan had not been knocked out of the war by airpower and atomic bombs the ridges and valleys we saw in a Super-Fortress flight over Honshu would have been the scene of the Pacific’s bloodiest and most costly battles”’ says the New York Times correspondent. “Japan is criss-crossed by hundreds of streams and canals, most of them running through narrow valleys and between deep and forbidding mountains or across narrow coastal flat roads leading to key objectives. The entire island except for the coastal area is unsuitable for the extensive use of tanks, recalling Okinawa.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 236, 4 September 1945, Page 5
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