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Sergeant Sabu ("Elephant Boy") Dastagir, 22-year-old Indian who gained fame & fortune in peacetime films riding on the back of an elephant, was awarded the D.F.C. for riding a U.S. bomber as a tail gunner in an attack on a Japanese convoy off Borneo...
Other specimens recently acquired by the University come from Mexico, China, Australia, Fiji, Belgian Congo, the Philippines and Borneo, bringing the collection total...
...Leyte landing: "The strategic result of capturing the Philippines will be decisive. . . . The Dutch East Indies . . . Borneo, Malaya and Burma will be severed from Japan proper. . . . To the north, either flank will be vulnerable and can be rolled up at will." Two months ago a communiqué claimed: "The end of the Leyte-Samar campaign is in sight...
...Pacific real estate, this time the tiny Mapia Islands off Dutch New Guinea. Presumably they were taken as flank protection for the U.S. air base on Biak. Meanwhile U.S. Liberator bombers flew 800 miles to bomb the important Japanese naval base at Brunei Bay on the far side of Borneo, scoring five hits on a battleship, four on a cruiser. Both ships, presumably cripples or survivors of last month's naval battle, were left blazing...
Last week came the news which surprised no one. Back on duty in the Southwest Pacific as a gunnery instructor, Dick Bong was in battle again. He had led Lightning fighters on a 1,500-mile raid to Balikpapan, the longest fighter operation ever attempted in the theater. Over Borneo 20 Jap planes had jumped U.S. heavy bombers. Bong and his P-38s piled in and drove them off. Instructor Bong's personal score: two Japanese planes...