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Vox Pop
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Two Down, One to Go
Italy and Germany knocked out!
Now Japan. Japan is strong, stronger than we like to believe, al
though common sense tells us this is trUe.
The enemy of the Pacific is girded for 5 0 years of war. Japan’s 3 5
million workers on the home islands are working every day in the week,
from 14 to 16 hours a day, turning out war equipment and foodstuffs.
Then, too, there are the 400 million conquered Asiatic slaves who are, un
der the whip and lash, manufacturing untold quantities of material. This,
plus Japan’s willingness, as demonstrated to our fighting men, to sacri
fice 10 million soldiers, gives the United States an enemy empire that is
second in size in the world.
We know it took the Marines about four weeks of the hardest
fighting in the corpsi’ history to capture Iwo Jima. We know the Japs
fought with the determination to die fighting. Altogether we have
killed about 700,000 Japs, and taken but a handful of prisoners. Jap
soldiers would rather die for their emperor; to do so gives them imme
diate entry to a pleasant after life, they believe.
This is the enemy next on our list. This is the enemy that attacked
Pearl Harbor. This is our challenge. And one of the best methods to
meet that challenge and to win is with individual purchases of more
’and bigger W ar Bonds.
Set your individual quota according to your ability—then meet it!