Jeffrey R. Cox
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“When the Japanese first attacked the Philippines on December 8, 1941, MacArthur “demonstrated his unique leadership style: when he was good, he was very, very good[;] when he was bad, he was horrid.”
― Blazing Star, Setting Sun: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign November 1942–March 1943
― Blazing Star, Setting Sun: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign November 1942–March 1943
“At a time when the US Navy was finally jettisoning the prewar bureaucrats in the officer corps, allowing the wartime performers to rise to the top, the Imperial Japanese Navy was facing the opposite problem – it was running out of its talented, veteran officers.”
― Blazing Star, Setting Sun: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign November 1942–March 1943
― Blazing Star, Setting Sun: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign November 1942–March 1943
“By 7:55 am on December 7, World War II in the Pacific had been in progress for more than eight hours.”
― Rising Sun, Falling Skies: The Disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War II
― Rising Sun, Falling Skies: The Disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War II
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