THE BOOK OF
NIPS
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE BOOK OF THE DIVINE WIND
The Nips use their imaginationThe Yanks get unreasonable
Chapter 20
Of course, with their jtypical foresight, the Americans were very well prepared to fight a war against Germany and Japan,
2kHaving scrapped a lot of their weapons years ago,
3And not having quite gotten around to building any new ones,
4In spite of the fact that World War II had been going on for almost two years now,
5And so, the Nips had pretty clear sailing in the South Pacific for quite a while,
6lConquering the Philippines,
7mAnd Singapore,
8nAnd most of New Guinea,
9aAnd lots and lots of islands in between,
10bUntil the Yank general cMacArthur escaped from the Philippines somehow,
11And thought up a typically sloppy Yank strategy for fighting back,
12Something called the leapfrog strategy,
13Meaning the Yanks were headed for Japan by the quickest route available,
14And wouldn’t stop and fight at every little island on the way.
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