[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from yesterday.

John Toland, The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Billboard Top Ten for the Week of November 11, 1944

#1 - “I’ll Walk Alone” – Dinah Shore
#2 - “You Always Hurt the One You Love” – Mills Brothers
#3 – “The Trolley Song” – Pied Pipers
#4 – “Is You Is or Is You Ain’t (Ma’ Baby)” – Bing Crosby, with the Andrews Sisters
#5 - “Together” – Dick Haymes and Helen Forrest
#6 - “And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine” – Stan Kenton, with Anita O’Day
#7 - “I’ll Walk Alone” – Mary Martin
#8 – “I’ll Walk Alone” – Martha Tilton
#9– “Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral” - Bing Crosby
#10 - “Dance with a Dolly” – Russ Morgan, with Al Jennings

[henkster]

The Japanese had to relearn the lesson taught at the Battle of the Bismarck Sea over a year ago. You cannot send a convoy into an area controlled by American air power.