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...week's end he had made four landings in the Dutch archipelago. His troops got ashore at Tarakan (see map), an island off the oil-rich northeast coast of Borneo, the Indies' richest oil center. He pushed in under cruiser protection during the night, was met by the local defense force and by Indies Army bombers...
Three years ago there was little munitions manufacturing; today there are 56,000 Australian men & women working in war factories. Machine tools, cruiser tanks, Bren guns, Australia's own Owen gun, Beaufighter airplanes are in fast production...
Since the 8th of December (the 7th on the U.S. side of the International Date Line) the little band of 378 sea-soldiers had been under repeated Jap attack. Frying in the Pacific sun on their desolate four-mile-long atoll they had seen a Jap cruiser and two destroyers standing off the island with the signal "Surrender" flapping gaily from their signal halyards...
...returned a Marine's answer: "Come and get us." The Jap got another answer. Somehow, either by bombardment from the four fighter planes still on the island (eight had been smashed by the enemy) or by fire from his six 5-in. guns, little Jimmie Devereux sank the cruiser and one of the destroyers. He reported it tersely to Honolulu. Later he reported his men had sunk...
This is the U.S.S. Atlanta (sponsored when it was launched by Margaret Gone With the Wind Mitchell), which went into commission at the New York Navy Yard in Brooklyn last week. First new cruiser to enter active duty in two years, she moves her 6,000 tons around with the grace of a Clipper, can do about 43 knots (some 50 m.p.h.), is figured to be faster by at least three knots than Japan's new 9,000-ton cruisers. A trio of sister ships will soon follow her into commission. The U.S. needs them badly. At last count...