World Battlefronts: Soldiers in the Sea

Fortnight after the Japs lost 22 ships in the Bismarck Sea (TIME, March 15), the Japanese Government announced by radio that all Japanese soldiers would be taught how to swim. "The scheme has been prompted," said Tokyo Radio, "by the fact that war operations in Greater East Asia are closely connected with water."

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