Both the U.S. and Japan took stock of the war in the Orient.
Facing certain defeat, the Japs could only take steps to ward off the final assault as long as possible. Example: the Japs decided that their aluminum industry must be re-geared to the use of low-grade ore found in their own islands and in Korea, Manchuria and north China; fine bauxite from Malaya and the islands would soon be cut off by the Allied recapture of the southern islands.
The U.S., confident of ultimate victory, saw its progress seriously retarded by...
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