While the Japanese fleet isn’t getting any bigger, its ability to pursue the kind of operation Hua described is improving. Throughout the multi-phase campaign, Japanese and allied ships and planes also would escort friendly shipping in order to protect against Chinese submarine attack. Next, Japanese ships and planes would enforce a “blockade zone” around Okinawa in order to catch Chinese subs that succeed in leaving port.įinally, Tokyo and its allies would undertake what Hua called “encirclement and annihilation combat” on the high seas, hunting down and destroying Chinese submarines that slip past the Okinawa blockade zone. Meanwhile, Japanese vessels would mine the waters outside Chinese ports. Japanese and allied forces would undertake a campaign of “active offense,” involving direct air and missile attacks against Chinese submarine bases, shipyards and torpedo-manufacturing facilities. In wartime, Japanese and allied forces would pursue a comprehensive strategy for dismantling the Chinese submarine fleet, according to Hua Dan, a lecturer at China’s Army Engineering University. That said, Tokyo has optimized its entire fleet-subs, ships and planes-for anti-submarine warfare. Japanese subs are among the most modern and sophisticated in the world, but they indisputably are outnumbered by their Chinese counterparts. Beijing’s undersea fleet by 2030 could expand to include 60 diesel-electric boats and at least 16 nuclear attack submarines.īy comparison, the Japanese navy operates 20 diesel-electric submarines and does not plan grow this force over the near term. Office of Naval Intelligence, the Chinese navy in 2015 operated 57 diesel-electric submarines and five nuclear attack submarines. They ride off together out of the deli, leaving Catstello happily eating cheese, reading the book Live Alone and Like It, and remarking "Oh - I'm a baaaaad boy!" (The book was written by Marjorie Hillis, the editor of Vogue, around 1936 for unmarried women.China’s submarine fleet is of particular concern to foreign naval planners. Then Catstello, hypnosis book in hand, turns the cat into a bronco and Babbit into a cowboy. Like a ball in a tennis match, Catstello bounces back and forth several times between the hypnotic powers of Babbit and the cat.įinally, Catstello produces two hand mirrors that reflect the hypnotic beams at Babbit and the cat. Then a battle begins between Babbit and the cat for control of Catstello. Catstello runs out barking to confront the cat, but the cat, with a hypnosis book, undoes Babbit's spell and Catstello flees back to Babbit. Catstello comes out of his trance and flees back into the mouse hole, where Babbit hypnotizes him again. But Catstello picks up the bin, and the cat is shocked to see Catstello, rather than a dog. He sends Catstello out to chase the cat away.Īt first, Catstello's barking frightens the cat, who hides under a trash bin. Satisfied that his hypnotic powers work, Babbit then hypnotizes Catstello into believing he is a dog. Catstello failed to gather food as directed, because he fears the cat.Īfter much resistance, Babbit hypnotizes Catstello and turns him, in turn, into Bing Crosby (voiced by Richard Bickenbach), Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Durante, Rochester (which is removed from Cartoon Network in the United States) and a chicken. He addresses the camera and audience: "I thought you'd never get here." He alerts Babbit that the people/audience are here, but Babbit is angry. The camera pans the interior of the deli, finally coming to Catstello waiting patiently at the entrance of a mouse hole. The cartoon opens in outer space, and moves in slowly on the planet Earth, the United States, and a fictional state called "Mouseachewsetts." The camera continues to move closer, to an overhead view of Fluger's Delicatessen, wedged in between two skyscrapers. This cartoon marks the final appearances for Babbit and Catstello during the Golden age of American animation. They are voiced by Tedd Pierce and Mel Blanc respectively. A 1942 cartoon, A Tale of Two Kitties, cast Abbott and Costello as cats and introduced Tweety Bird. It is a sequel to 1945's Tale of Two Mice, with the Abbott and Costello characterizations (" Babbit and Catstello") cast as mice. cartoon in the Merrie Melodies series, directed by Robert McKimson. The Mouse-Merized Cat is a 1946 Warner Bros.
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