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air ways of thinking but they are getting all of this just as we did ten or fifteen years ago.  They are improving all of the time.  One often hears it said that Japanese cannot fly.  Nothing is more fallacious than this.  They can fly, are going to fly, and may end up by developing the greatest air power in the world.

63.  In making estimates of the Japanese air power, care must be taken that it is not underestimated.  According to our ordinary systems of gaining military information we only give credence to things of which we are absolutely sure.  With the difficulty of gaining information about the Japanese aviation, it is almost impossible to be absolutely sure about anything and an estimate, made by people conversant with aeronautical systems, taking into consideration the problems that lie in front of the Japanese, and the manner in which they can be met, will be much more accurate.

64.  The Japanese are buying aeronautical equipment in every aeronautical manufacturing country in the world.  They are getting the latest types of everything and are perfectly capable of manufacturing and handling them.  I believe that there is no doubt that they have a striking force of at least six hundred airplanes, half of which are pursuit and half, bombardment, with entirely

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