Urwin dispells myths like the widely circulated report that when asked what they needed, the Marines replied, "Send us more Japs!" The truth is that "send us" was at the beginning of a message and "more Japs" was at the end of the same message --- a skillful propoganda officer simply cut out the center of the message to create the heroic sounding "send us more Japs" message. For the duration of World War II, that message of defiance brought Americans hope (after the war, the commander of the Wake Island defenders, when he heard of the "message," said "that's the last thing we needed").

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