9 aAnd lots and lots of islands in between,
10 bUntil the Yank general cMacArthur escaped from the Philippines somehow,
11 And thought up a typically sloppy Yank strategy for fighting back,
12 Something called the leapfrog strategy,
13 Meaning the Yanks were headed for Japan by the quickest route available,
14 And wouldn't stop and fight at every little island on the way.
CHAPTER 211 Actually, the Nips didn't quite understand the Yanks' war strategy for quite a while,
2 But some other things were happening that they didn't much like,
3 And couldn't understand either.
4 dFor example, when the Nip soldiers had conquered the Philippines,
5 They had fought in the most ecivilized way imaginable,
6 And yet they couldn't help noticing that the Yanks seemed extremely upset about the way they had bayoneted stragglers on the Bataan death march,
7 And smeared the brains of babies all over the walls of the hospital in Manila,
8 And tortured and starved and raped their civilian prisoners,
9 And other things that must have been civilized,
10 Because it was the Nips who did them.
11 But the Yank barbarians overreacted pretty strongly to the whole thing,
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12 fAnd declared that the only way the war would end was with the Unconditional Surrender of Japan,
13 Which was completely unreasonable,
14 If you're a Nip.
CHAPTER 221 And eventually, things stopped going well for the Nips.
2 gThe Yank air force bombed Tokyo,
3 hAnd then other cities.
4 The Yank imarines started taking islands away from the jNip marines,
5 Including Guadalcanal,
6 And Tarawa,
7 And the Philippines.
8 And the Yank navy started taking the Nip navy apart,
9 One ship at a time,
10 Except when it was two or three or eight ships at a time,
11 And it began to kdawn on the land of the rising sun that the Nips were going to lose the war,
12 Which started them thinking again,
13 lIn their usual mysterious and inscrutable way,
14 mAbout how great it would be for the whole Nip nation to commit suicide by not surrendering,
15 Ever.
CHAPTER 231 This led to a slight change in the Nip war strategy,
2 nWhich is to say they stopped trying to actually win the war,
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