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Britain, thereby corroborating the many reports of impending invasion."
Soon thereafter the A-3 was replaced by a more secure system, and
English became Greek to the listening Germans.
15. The Scrutable Orientals
FROM THE SUNDAY morning when Commander Mitsuo Fuchida, in his
bomber high over Pearl Harbor, radioed "TORA, TORA, TORA!" to indicate
that his attack force had achieved complete surprise, the gods of war had
smiled without surcease upon the armed forces of imperial Japan. The
strike at Pearl Harbor had decimated the United States fleet.
Unhindered, the Greater East Asia Co-
Prosperity Sphere expanded rapidly and uninterruptedly. Guam was
captured on December 10, Wake on the 23rd. Two days later Hong Kong
fell. Japanese aircraft sank Prince of Wales and Repulse, giving Winston
Churchill his worst shock of the war and leaving the whole western
Pacific, the Indian Ocean, Oceania, and even Australia virtually
annaabi.ee 
