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document.write('<p>When all was shining under the bright rising sun. When a hurt, defeated and humiliated Mac Arthur,');

document.write(' taken away under protest from his beloved Philippine land, tried to organize the very non defensive Australia...</p>');

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document.write('of this Empire and starting what Churchill called in his book, “The Hinge of Fate” ');

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document.write('He never got the fifth star and he didn’t need it.  Midway was his fifth star.</p> ');

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document.write('and indirectly protecting the “Marine Corps”, in the so called ‘Battle of the Eastern Solomon Islands” ');

document.write(' The commander of that force, was again Admiral Fletcher.</p>');

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document.write(' to whom the infinite resources available would have made it almost impossible to lose a battle.');

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document.write(' In the three battles he fought and won, there would be no revenge, nor return, nor forgiveness.</p>');

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document.write('But it was then and it was there that America and the World could see that whereas Frank Jack Fletcher fought, liberty always won.</p ');


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