(More than double the original goal. I wonder if this could be achieved today?)

(The truth was that in Feb. of 1942, nine Japanese merchantmen were sunk, I don't have a figure of how many were damaged. One of them was lost through an accident, and one was sunk by a joint effort by the RAF, USAAF and the Royal Dutch Air Force. None of the others were credited to the Royal Navy or Royal Air Force.

The report also claims that 17 Axis (German and Italian) ships were sunk or damaged in home waters and the Mediterranean. It seems that these figures were only credited to RAF aircraft. I don't have a ready list of these sinkings, but I can only assume that the figure is incorrect, to what extent, I can't say.)

(As it turns out, no Japanese ships had been sunk by MacArthur's air forces. Of course, the press had no way to confirm this and the headlines would soon fade into some other war story and nobody would ever know that they had been lied to. Well, now they know.

Below is a brief timeline of the actions that took place between Feb. 25 and Mar. 9, 1942.

Feb. 25: The Japanese depart for the invasion of Java. They are split into two forces, which was the typical Japanese tactic, one which almost always failed. Almost one hundred transports ships of all sizes were escorted by a huge force of cruisers, destroyers, minesweepers, submarine chasers, and all kinds of support vessels. Air cover was provided by the aircraft carrier Ryujo and the seaplane carrier Chiyoda along with shore-based aircraft. A third force, under Admiral Nagumo, consisting of aircraft carriers, battleships, cruisers and destroyers takes up a position south of Java.

The invasion forces are sighted by waiting Allied submarines on Feb. 25, but no attack is made against them. Japanese air reconnaissance sights Allied ships off Java and the invasion force is stopped. There was no great battle, the Japanese just retired to avoid combat.

Feb. 26: The ABDA force, under the command of Rear Admiral Kaerl Doorman, sortied, but did not locate the Japanese. They sortie again on the 27th and this time they found one of the invasion forces and the Battle of the Java Sea began.

Feb. 27: The Dutch destroyer Kortenaer is sunk by a torpedo fired from Haguro, 59 men are lost. Then HMS Exeter, veteran of the Battle of the River Plate, is hit by a Japanese shell and is forced to retire, 13 men are killed. HMS Electra is sunk by a torpedo attack with the loss of 109 men.

HMS Jupiter hits a Dutch mine and sinks, taking 84 men with her. HNLMS De Duyter, flagship of the squadron, is sunk sometime during the night of Feb. 27-28, three hundred and sixty-six men, including Doorman, were lost. HNLMS Java, also sunk in the same action takes five hundred and thirty men with her.

In a separate action with Nagumo's covering force, USS Langley AV-1 is sunk, fortunately only 16 men were lost. In all of this, only two Japanese warships had been damaged, none were sunk.

Feb. 28: Japanese forces land on Java.

Mar. 1: The Battle of the Sunda Strait. The cruisers USS Houston CA-30 and HMAS Perth attack the Japanese force landing on Java, sinking two transports and damaging a minesweeper. Both Houston and Perth are sunk, Houston lost six hundred and ninety-three men while Perth lost three hundred and forty-two.

HMS Exeter is sunk with the loss of 54 men. HMS Encounter is shelled and sunk, 7 men are killed. USS Pope DD-225 is bombed by aircraft from Ryujo and disabled, then shelled by the same two Japanese ships that sank HMS Encounter and sunk, only 1 man was lost. The Japanese lost two transports [mentioned above] and two cruisers were damaged.

In a separate action on Mar. 1st, aircraft from Nagumo's force locate USS Pecos AO-6 and sink her. One hundred and seventy-two men, including many survivors from USS Langley, were killed. The battleship force then comes across USS Edsall DD-219, which also had survivors from Langley on board. The destroyer took on the battleships single-handed, never hauling down her flag, she went down after a severe punishing. One hundred and forty-seven men went down with the ship, five were picked up by the cruiser Chikuma. They were interrogated, tortured, and then executed at Kendrie POW camp, Celebes. Along with this, five merchant ships were sunk.

Mar. 2: HMS Stronghold is sunk, 75 men lost, USS Pillsbury DD-277 is sunk, 185 men lost. One merchant ship sunk one captured. HNLMS Banckert, HNLMS Witte de With, USS Stewart DD-224 and three Dutch submarines, K-XII, K-XVIII and K-IV are scuttled at Surabaya, Java. Stewart and Banckert were later raised and repaired by the Japanese. USS Sailfish SS-192 sinks the aircraft transport Kamogawa Maru.

Mar. 3: USS Asheville PG-21 is sunk with 160 of her 161-man crew.

Mar. 4: Japanese ships locate a small convoy and sink all but one ship, which is captured. Lost were HMAS Yara with 138 men, HMAS Anking, with 259 men lost, HMS MMS-51 with the loss of 2 men and RFA Francol and 19 men. The 7,089-ton Tjisaroea was captured.

Mar. 5: Nagumo's carrier aircraft raid Tjilatjap, Java, two ships are damaged but 15 are scuttled.

Mar. 6: HNLMS Jan van Amstel, HNLMS Eland Dubois and HNLMS Pieter de Bitter are scuttled.

Mar. 9: With much of the ABDA force sunk and the remaining ships and submarines having fled to safety, the ABDA command is dissolved.

Many of the survivors would die as prisoners in Japanese custody.) As it turns out, no Japanese ships had been sunk by MacArthur's air forces to date in Feb. 1942.)

(All non-guests must be off the premises by that time.)

(The Germans reporting that a Japanese submarine sank the tanker William Borg off the Pacific coast. The tanker William H. Berg reported being fired on by an unidentified submarine on Feb. 28th. The crew stated that the submarine fired three shells, but scored no hits on the ship. I have not been able to identify the submarine involved in this attack.)

(The Hospital ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft during the raid on Darwin on Feb. 19, 1942. Eleven people were killed.)

(That may be the biggest understatement of the month.)

(Tom Mooney, a labor leader, who was convicted of murder in a 1916 bombing that killed 10 people and injured 40 others at the Preparedness Day Parade. (Could this have been where the Tsarnaev Brothers got the idea to bomb the Boston Marathon?) He was originally sentenced to death, but just like today, two democrats came to his rescue. First, President Woodrow Wilson, commuted his death sentence to life in prison, then democrat governor Culbert Olson pardoned him on Jan. 7, 1939. The only comfort the families of the dead received may have been the knowledge that he suffered after getting out of prison. They of course, received no pardon to end their grief and pain.)

(And just 81 years later they want to raise the debt limit again, we are now at $31 trillion+, I don't know how high they want to raise it.)

(Democrat governor Culbert Olson [mentioned above] told a congressional committee that he "favored wholesale evacuation of Japanese from all coastal California." The democrat governor said that he believed there should be a distinction made between the handling of German and Italian aliens as compared with the Japanese. [Get ready for his reasoning, you will love this.] "Because of the extreme difficulty in distinguishing between loyal Japanese Americans, and there are many who are loyal to this country, and those Japanese whose loyalty is to the Mikado."

He went on to profess; "This should also be done for the protection of the Japanese themselves and to safeguard against the possibility of race riots." [It makes me feel warm inside that he was concerned for the wellbeing of the Japanese.]

One may wonder, how can this get any better, well Governor Olson added this comment; "As to the German and Italian element, however, it is possible for the loyal to be distinguished from the potential saboteurs and fifth columnists, and there is not strong antagonism toward them that there is toward the Japanese here."

How you can tell a loyal German or Italian, just from the way he looks, he failed to explain. This shows that the democrat concern for individual civil rights has been the same for many decades. [Don't forget that most democrats, including Al Gore's father, voted AGAINST the civil rights act in 1964.]

Keep in mind that we now have a president, Biden, who has told us, on several occasions, that he believes that "nothing in the Constitution is absolute." Civil rights, like the right of freedom of speech [first amendment] the right to own a gun [second amendment] the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures [forth amendment.] Mr. Biden, Mr. Garland and Mr. Wray have violated both the first and forth, with a wink and a nod from Mr. Biden, and all would like nothing more than to take away, forever, the second. If you think that what they did to the Japanese so many years ago can't happen to certain people today, you have not been paying attention to the news, or you have been paying attention to the propaganda networks and papers.

On page two of the Bakersfield Californian there is a report, with the kind and sensitive headline, "Jap Camps for Owens Valley, Blythe." The report states that they expect to evacuate 200,000 from the California coast.

(A single cry of indignation trembled through France - Churchill's cynical grudge to Paris.)

(Churchill and Roosevelt glorify the assassination attack - The act of revenge on Paris claims over 1000 lives.)