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airplane transports would be provided, each loaded with fifty bombardment planes. These ships could be equipped with a flying off deck laid down in sections while the transports were in use. These seacraft would be started so as to arrive at the islands of Niihau [[Ni'ihau]] and Midway respectively on D. Day.
The submarines with the pursuit equipment aboard would land at Niihau [[Ni'ihau]] on the evening of D Day and as there are only 148 people on the island, no radio station or other means of communication, except by water, probably the first information of this force, received at Honolulu, would be the appearance of the hostile aircraft. There are several hundred Japanese sampans in the Hawaiian Islands, splendid seagoing thirty to sixty foot fishing boats, which would be of great assistance to any force seising the Island of Niihau [[Ni'ihau]].
The pursuit ships could be set up and made ready for service during the night and be ready for duty the next morning. (Twenty submarines could carry twice as many pursuit ships as the ten mentioned above.) The force destined for Midway Island could debark its bombardment equipment from the transports, prepare the airdrome in the sand with landing mats and the necessary 
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