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  • could not be held for long. In fact, during 1941 war seemed so likely that the Fleet was held in the southern Philippines most of the time. However, in the fall of 1941, the situation appeared to be growing a little more favorable. Freed of the. restrictions previously imposed by national policy, at last reinforcements were arriving in the Philippines, and it. seemed that after all there might be a chance of holding the Islands. Army planes and tanks were coming in rapidly, and more submarines with their tenders had arrived. Within a few months, when these new forces had been organized and shaken down into their new environment, the Philippines would obviously be a much harder nut to crack. The war plan was in the process of change, based on the promise that now there was a chance of holding the Islands until the Fleet should arrive. Perhaps the Japanese realized this, and decided that it must be "now or never". Their answer was—Pearl Harbor.
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