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...interest to know that the Fightin' Thirteenth has been engaged in the softening-up process of Tarakan and other Borneo targets for months preceding the invasion. The success of our bombing and strafing attacks was indicated by the inability of the barbarous Nips to make a stubborn defense. Their light ack-ack and hasty withdrawal to better prepared defense positions testifies to the accuracy and deadly action the Thirteenth Air Force gave the target...
...stocky, sallow Lieut. General Ennis C. Whitehead, which fought its way up through Australia, New Guinea, the Philippines; the Thirteenth, now commanded by a smart, 38-year-old pilot, Major General Paul B. Wurtsmith, which started in the Solomons, shifted to New Guinea, recently covered the Australian landings on Borneo; and the Seventh, veteran Central Pacific outfit which started in Hawaii and worked its way westward to Okinawa. The Seventh's commander: Brigadier General Thomas D. White...
...last remaining governments in exile pre pared to return to the jungle. It consisted of the ailing, inactive White Raja of Sarawak, Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, the young Raja Muda, and members of the Provisional Government, who eagerly followed the progress of the hard-hitting Australian liberation troops on Borneo {see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS...
...British Empire, oil-rich, rubber-rich Sarawak is an in dependent patch on the northwest rim of Dutch Borneo. Britain's control stops at defense and foreign affairs. For a century Sarawak was the absolute domain of the Brooke dynasty, founded in 1841, when a swashbuckling English adventurer, James Brooke, quelled an insurrection there for the Sultan of Brunei and proclaimed himself Raja...
Died. Rear Admiral Forrest B. Royal. 52, stocky commander of amphibious op erations in this month's Brunei Bay invasion of northwest Borneo, veteran of Leyte and Luzon, onetime secretary to the Joint Chiefs of Staff; of coronary thrombosis...