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Mitsumasa Yonai

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Our defeat at Leyte was tantamount to the loss of the Philippines. When you [the Allies] took the Philippines, that was the end of our resources.
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Quoted in "Decision at Leyte" - Page 319 - by Stanley Lawrence Falk - 1966

 
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