Word: amboina
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...asked only for light naval craft: destroyers, light cruisers and submarines. Any newsreader could note the effectiveness of the small U.S. Asiatic Fleet (with its supporting aircraft) in blasting Japanese convoys in the Strait of Macassar. He could note, too, the depressing fact that the Jap first approached vital Amboina with a piddling naval escort, got little or no naval opposition. Three cruisers, a dozen destroyers, even one aircraft carrier, would bolster U.S. and Dutch naval strength in the Indies, would help to stop the Jap short of Java...
...bombed, then occupied western Borneo's port of Pontianak on the South China Sea. He completed his occupation of Balikpapan on the east coast of Borneo. He hurled bombs, then troops at the Indie's No. 2 naval base, Amboina in the Moluccas. The brave, brown Amboinese met the enemy with skill at marksmanship and the bayonet. But they were too few and they lacked both naval and air support. The Dutch sadly announced that demolition squads, long trained for just such preventive waste, had wrecked every useful thing in Amboina...
Batavia, N.E.I.--Japanese bombers struck today at Dutch Timor, southern-most of the Indies, only 310 miles from the Australian coast, while Dutch troops fiercely battled landing parties at four points including the Amboina Naval base...
...Helfrich had a respectably equipped Navy: five cruisers, more than 20 submarines, a well-trained but small fleet of destroyers (six to eight), torpedo boats and auxiliaries. He also had a vastly strengthened base at Surabaya, where everything but capital ships could be overhauled, a good secondary base on Amboina...
...kind of amphibious warfare-land, sea and air attack-that the U.S. Navy has long discussed. Flanking her southward march on the right is Hong Kong, a better-equipped base than the Philippines' Cavite. Ahead of her lie Singapore, the stout secondary bases at Surabaya, Darwin and Amboina. This week Japan was pecking at some of these places, but she had not yet apparently risked an all-out attack on any. And before she could hope to grab and hold the Indies, she must reduce Singapore...