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This was a speech made by Gen. Bill Mitchell

July, 1924

"Japan knows full well that the United States will probably enter the next war with the methods and weapons of the former war...It also knows full well that the defense of the Hawaiian group is based on the island of Oahu and not on the defense of the whole group."

"The Japanese bombardment, (would be) 100 (air) ships organized into four squadrons of 25 (air) ships each. The objectives for attack are:

1.Ford Island, airdrome, hangers, storehouses and ammunition dumps;


2.Navy fuel oil tanks;


3.Water supply of Honolulu;


4.Water supply of Schofield;


5.Schofield Barracks airdrome and troop establishments;


6.Naval submarine station;


7. City and wharves of Honolulu."



"Attack will be launched as follows: bombardment, attack to be made on Ford Island at 7:30 a.m.

"Attack to be made on Clark Field (Philippine Islands) at 10:40 a.m."

"Japanese pursuit aviation will meet bombardment over Clark Field, proceeding by squadrons, one at 3000 feet to Clark Field from the southeast and with the sun at their back, one at 5000 feet from the north and one at 10,000 feet from the west. Should U.S. pursuit e destroyed or fail to appear, airdrome would be attacked with machineguns."

"The (Japanese) air force would then carry out a systematic siege against Corregidor."

"The United States must not render herself completely defenseless on the one hand thinking that a war with Japan is an impossibility, and on the other by sticking to methods and means of making war as obsolete as the bow and arrow is for the military rifle."
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