Great Pacific War: a History of the American-Japanese Campaign of 1931-33
“Events in this opening period had vindicated the judgment of those American strategists who had all along warned their countrymen that the remote islands of the Western Pacific could not, in existing circumstances, be held against a hostile Japan, and must inevitably be forfeited soon after the outbreak of war. But although these grave reverses had been foreseen by the initiated, and discounted in advance, their moral effect both in the United States and abroad was nevertheless very marked. Sin...ce at this time nothing was known of the heavy price which Japan had been compelled to pay for her initial successes, it was widely assumed that her losses were trivial, nor did the official Japanese bulletins seek to correct this impression. Not until the submarine S 50, with Captain Harper on board, reached Honolulu did the world learn the truth about the heroic defence of Guam.
His story of the smashing repulse of the first attack, together with the submarine and destroyer officers’ accounts of the casualties inflicted on the invaders of the Philippines, were hailed with enthusiasm in America, for at least these proved that the enemy was not invincible, as not a few people, disheartened by successive misfortunes on sea and land, were beginning to believe.MoreLess
His story of the smashing repulse of the first attack, together with the submarine and destroyer officers’ accounts of the casualties inflicted on the invaders of the Philippines, were hailed with enthusiasm in America, for at least these proved that the enemy was not invincible, as not a few people, disheartened by successive misfortunes on sea and land, were beginning to believe.MoreLess
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