CUTTING OFF ENEMY
3RD FLEET'S BLOCKADE
r NEW YORK, Juty 25. What seems to be a determined j effort, id destroy every ship remaining j afloat in Japanese home waters is under way, a correspondent reports, as British anil American carrier planes continue their blows for the second successive day. Admiral Halsey, broadcasting from his flagship on Japan, paid that the Pacific Fleet had opened a new phase of the naval warfare —"the-final plunge into the heart ol" Japan." The Admiral said: "I said after the Battle of Leyt.e Gulf-that "the Japanese fleet was beaten, routed, and broken. Nothing has happened..since to change" my opinion. .-What, is left of the Japanese navy is helpless, but just for good luck we will hunt them out of their holes. * - "The carriers have already wrought most unbelievable destruction to enemy shipping, industry, and transportation in the northern part of the empire. If the Japanese^ do not know they are a doomed nation they are even more stupid than I think they are. My
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 22, 26 July 1945, Page 7
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173CUTTING OFF ENEMY Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 22, 26 July 1945, Page 7
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