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wards. While these operations are taking place the Island of Guam would be seized. (Under these conditions the Philippines would fall of their own weight within a year or two.)
6. The distance from Niihau to Honolulu is about one hundred and fifty miles, or an hour and a half flight, or a total of three hours there and back, allowing forty minutes for an attack and additional twenty minutes for eventualities would require a maximum of four hours for one attack mission. (The present United States pursuit airplane with auxiliary gas tank has four and a half hours' fuel; the bomber, about six.)
7. The first attack would be arranged as follows: Japanese pursuit, sixty ships, organized into one group of three squadrons of twenty ships each; two squadrons to participate in combined attack with bombardment and one squadron to remain in reserve on the alert. (The Japanese pursuit is comparatively weak, due to the fact that the United Sates has only two small squadrons of nine ships each at Honolulu.) Japanese bombardment, one hundred ships, organized into one group of four squadrons of twenty-five ships each. The objectives for attack are:
(1) Ford Island airdrome hangars, storehouses, and ammunition dumps


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