Raid of No Return (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #7)
SIR THAT LOOKS LIKE OUR SAME TYPE 91 TORPEDO YES IT IS THE GOOD OLD GYORAT THE THUNDERFISH HOW SHALLOW BUT LOOK CLOSER IT'S GOT A WOODEN BOX ON THE FINS THOSE PIECES OF WOOD WILL STABILIZE IT OUR MODIFIED THUNDERFISH WILL SWIM IN SHALLOW WATER TIME TO FIND OUT REFUEL THESE BOMBERS AND ATTACH THE MODIFIED THUNDERFISH THIS WILL NEVER WORK FIRE TORPEDO AWAY HOW IT LOOKING CLICK I TRUST COMMANDER GENDA HE'S A PILOT JUST LIKE US I DON'T SEE IT I DON'T THINK IT CONGRATULATIONS COMMANDER GENDA YOUR THUNDERFISH CAN SWIM THEY WORK REFUEL THE BOMBERS AND PUT MORE TARGETS OUT WE WILL PRACTICE UNTIL WE ARE PERFECT
NOT WHILE THE TORPEDO BOMBERS AND SUBMARINES HIT THE TARGETS BELOW THE WATERLINE WE WILL STRIKE FROM ABOVE YOU WILL HIT THE AIRFIELDS GROUNDED PLANES ARE TARGETS PLANES IN THE AIR ARE PRIORITY TARGETS MEMORIZE THESE TARGETS ESPECIALLY THE CARRIERS PROTECT THE BOMBERS SIR THESE PRACTICE RUNS TAKE SO MUCH FUEL SO MUCH OIL MERCIFUL HEAVENS I'D HATE TO BE THEIR TARGET SO WHY HAS IT TAKEN THIS LONG IF THIS PLAN WORKS WE'LL HAVE ALL THE FUEL WELL EVER NEED CAPTAIN HALE YOU'VE TOLD US MANY TALES HERE ON THE GALLOWS TO GET TO THESE AMAZING FLYING MACHINES AND HE'S OFF AND RUNNING DO YOU THINK HE'LL COME BACK TORPEDOS AWAY I HOPE
BANNERS HE'S NOT WRONG THESE FLYING MACHINES ARE FASCINATING THE AMERICANS I SUPPOSE I'D LIKE TO HEAR ALL THE DETAILS THE POLITICAL JIGGERY POKERY THE INTERESTING STUFF THAT PUDDING HEAD USUALLY INTERRUPTS YES WHY WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW WHO THE JAPANESE ARE PLANNING TO ATTACK IT'S COMPLICATED LET'S START WITH A LIST OF JAPANESE WARS LEADING UP TO 1941 WE'LL GO BACK TO 1894 JAPAN FOUGHT IMPERIAL QING FORCES IN CHINA THE FIRST SINO JAPANESE WAR 1894 1895 OOH FANCY BANNERS HEY THEN IN 1899 THE BOXER REBELLION 1899 1901 JAPAN JOINED AN EIGHT NATION ALLIANCE TO SUBDUE AN UPRISING IN TARGET INCOMING STOP BURSTING MY
1914 1918 THEN THEY FOUGHT RUSSIA WELL WHERE DID HE GO THE RUSSO JAPANESE WAR 1904 1905 WHERE ARE YOU ARENT YOU GOING TO DESTROY THIS ONE TOO GOOD MAYBE WE CAN GO INTO DETAIL NOW BOMBS AWAY THEN THERE WAS WORLD WAR ONE CURSE YOU I'D LIKE TO HEAR ABOUT HOW SUCH A SMALL COUNTRY COULD GO TO WAR WITH RUS THE INVASION OF MANCHURIA 1931 1932 THE INVASION OF FRENCH INDOCHINA 1940 THE SECOND SINO JAPANESE SO MUCH FOR A SERIOUS POLITICAL DISCUSSION WAR 1937 1941