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Ominous quiet fell over one of the Allies' most ominous war zones, the Bay of Bengal. Where was the great Japanese naval force - three battleships, five carriers, supporting cruisers and destroyers - which raised havoc in the Bay last fortnight? If the warships and bombers were still in the Bay, they kept to their holes in the Andaman Islands. They made no move across the Bay toward India, nor toward Ceylon at India's southern door...
...Japanese invaded India. When their warships and planes struck in the Bay of Bengal, they struck as directly at the troubled mainland as if their troops had landed in Calcutta...
...Japs win the Bay of Bengal, they will have all but won the Battle of India. They did not win the Bay last week. But they inflicted terrible naval losses on the British. Near the key island of Ceylon, at the southwestern entrance to the Bay of Bengal, R.A.F. fighters knocked down at least 75 Jap planes. Yet, after a week of combat, the British were weaker, the Japanese were relatively stronger than they had been when the battle started...
...Admiralty Regrets. Jap battleships, cruisers, aircraft carriers, destroyers, probably submarines moved toward India from the recently occupied Andaman Islands, some 900 miles across the Bay of Bengal. The U.S. Air Force's Major General Lewis Hyde Brereton had led a flight of Flying Fortresses to the Andamans and bombed Jap troopships there. From their Indian bases, his Fortresses presumably roved the embattled Bay last week. They were not enough; the Bay was too big, and the Japs too many...
British and U.S. planes roamed the Bay. Some of them, probably R.A.F. bombers from Ceylon, tracked down a Jap carrier and attacked. They missed; they also "suffered some losses." The Royal Navy still had "substantial forces" in the Bay of Bengal; enemy accounts mentioned at least several more cruisers, another aircraft carrier, two battleships (including the old, U.S.-repaired Malaya). The British figured that the Japs had three of their newest 50,000-ton battleships, five aircraft carriers, a strong complement of cruisers and destroyers. Gloomiest index of the results of the first battles for the Bay was a British...