Marching Orders: The Untold Story of How the American Breaking of the Japanese Secret Codes Led to the Defeat of Nazi Germany and Japan

by Bruce Lee

the government. I felt that on the western boundary of the Russian area we should use the same system in the control of military forces that brought about victory. All this had been presented many times to my superiors, and since they have decided otherwise, this is the last time my own ideas on the subject will be expressed. I assume that at an appropriate time he will communicate to me something of your ideas as to the forces and commanders for which you will have immediate need in the Japanese War after we have finished this job. I will be prepared to give you, whenever you may desire, my opinions as to the qualifications of the senior officers that will be available and for which you have needs as division, corps, army and even group commanders. This will likewise apply to the air side. “I must confess that post-armistice matters do not occupy any great share of my thoughts. We still have a long ways to go here because the intention of the enemy, which I think is becoming obvious, to continue the most bitter kind of resistance up to the point of practical extermination of the last of his armed forces. Thereafter, we may be faced with some kind of guerilla problem.”