Word: ceylonization
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From Java she limped to Ceylon, tacking like a sailboat, and from Trincomalee to Capetown, choosing the shorter, safe laps of the long way round the world. Still shipping water, the Marblehead got home last week. This week her Captain, shy, soft-spoken Arthur G. Robinson, watched men swarming over her, dragging pipes, riveting, hammering below decks. Home from hell, the Marblehead was being reconditioned, for she might have to go into hell again...
...salient separating Jap from German. In ships rounding the Cape of Good Hope go planes and tanks and men to fight, from Egypt to Calcutta. They pass within range of Madagascar's bases. North of the island, aircraft can be flown across the Indian Ocean to Australia or Ceylon. And in Madagascar's fields and harbors, planes and ships can be refueled and repaired...
Wavell, Brereton, a few other officers flew by night to Ceylon, then on to India. Brereton had with him a pistol, a few faded tropical uniforms which he had picked up from Australians in Java, and a blanket roll. He called the blanket roll "Baby," and it was precious: inside was $250,000 in U.S. currency. The money was to have paid and supplied U.S. troops who never arrived in Java. Like many another such bankroll, it had been handed out by Chief of Staff George C. Marshall in Washington, on the premise that you never could tell...
Only British and U.S. flyers broke the quiet. R.A.F. bombers from India or Ceylon, raiding the Japs' Port Blair in the Andamans, wrecked a nest of Jap flying boats. From India, Major General Lewis Hyde Brereton sent U.S. Flying Fortresses 750 miles to Rangoon, where they bombed troopships arriving to reinforce the Japs in Burma (see p. 22). Evidently, the Japs did not control all the air all the time...
...lost at least one (the old Haruna). So the Japs probably have eleven battleships in service today-considerably more than the U.S. regularly bases in the Pacific. But in tonnage and fire power the fleets have somewhere near parity; and, if the Jap battlewagons are scattered from Nagasaki to Ceylon there is always the chance that a bold move by Admiral Nimitz might catch up with a weaker Japanese unit...