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...barrels a week westward; Texas and the Gulf fields are shipping another 2,700,000 barrels by ship and by rail & pipeline to East and West Coast ports; the Middle East is supplying another 566,000 barrels a day. Before long, oil may again be coming out of Borneo. But it may be only a trickle of 55,000 barrels daily...
...credit to the Fightin' Thirteenth, which has destroyed more than 1,300 Jap planes, sunk 500,000 tons of Jap shipping in its unbroken tour of duty from the New Hebrides, through Guadalcanal and the central Solomons, New Guinea and the Moluccas, to the Philippines and Borneo...
Cleanup in the Rear. No one could take more satisfaction from this success than General Morshead himself. He had come to the Borneo command from the torturous, far from finished battle of New Guinea, one of the rear-area wars where the Aussies are still busy at the grim cleanup...
Their most important and spectacular campaign was against an estimated 30,000 enemy troops on Borneo. It was also their most successful. Under the Corps command of dapper, dashing Lieut. General Sir Leslie ("Holy Terror") Morshead, onetime schoolmaster and hero of the siege of Tobruk, the 7th Division had secured the vital Balikpapan area within three weeks of its invasion. Last week the 7th beat down bitter resistance to take another first-rate military prize: the Sambodja oil field, 28 miles northeast of Balikpapan and one of the three major producing areas of eastern Borneo...
...could concentrate on a much richer field-Samarinda, 36 miles away. With his 9th Division's firm hold on Tarakan and Brunei in the north (TIME, July 9), Morshead and his men, strategically at least, had secured Borneo for the Allies...