The Japanese do not know just how many planes they destroyed that day, and I am not going to tell them.
FDR: “The Japanese do not know just how many planes they destroyed that day, and I am not going to tell them.”
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He asserts that he will not disclose the exact number of planes destroyed to the enemy.
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