Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 December 1941 — Page 14
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tomes blitz warfare at sea. And the question arises as to what it will be like—a question that will be anSwered by developments of these first few days or weeks of the war \, between the United States and Japan, First blow struck at Hawaii by the Japanese Navy inN dicates that the § limits of range the preconceived ideas of distances at which naval vessels could safely operate from their bases—have been greatly extended. Previously it was thought that no fleet could . operate mites | % than 2500 miles| Peter Bdson from its base. Yet the distance from Japan to the Hawaiian Islands | fs 3500 miles. From San Francisco | to Yokohama is 5200 miles. And the | Japanese bombed Honolulu and tor | pedoed a transport off the — coast
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Upsetting factor in all these calculations are the Japanese mandated islands—more than 600 of them—forming the Marshall and
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