 | George W. Baer - History - 1996 - 572 pages
...Japanese, however, were greatly alarmed. Prince Higashikuni Naruhiko, commander of Home Defense, said: "We had nothing in Japan that we could use against...we felt that the war was lost and said so. If the 6-29s could come over Japan, there was nothing that could be done."44 That was not the view of the... | |
 | William C. King - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 246 pages
...in the Marianas had for all practical purposes put an end to his nation's hope for victory. He said, "We had nothing in Japan that we could use against...point of view of the Home Defense Command, we felt the war was lost and we said so."' In the spring of 1946, the US Army abandoned the Ledo and Burma... | |
 | Donald L. Miller - History - 2008 - 452 pages
...altitudes, because there was soon nothing to fear. Japan's air defense system had been obliterated. "We had nothing in Japan that we could use against such a weapon. . . . We felt that the War was lost," said Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni, commander of Japan's home defense... | |
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We had nothing in Japan that we could use against such a weapon. From the point of view of the Home Defense Command, we felt that the war was lost and said so. 