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At a critical moment during the Battle of the Philippine Sea in June 1944, the order was given for the blacked-out US aircraft carriers to turn on their lights to assist American pilots returning to their ships in the dark. “We stood open-mouthed on the deck for a moment,” wrote one naval officer, “at the sheer audacity of asking the Japs to come and get us, then a spontaneous cheer went up… Let them come if they dared. Japs or no Japs, the Navy was taking care of its own; our pilots were not ex
Referring to the People’s Liberation Army, the commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command recently reported to Congress that “we haven’t faced a threat like