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Again a destroyer picked up what was left of the two crews. It took them to Australia. There, at Darwin, the Jap had sunk the destroyer Peary. Her crew had fought her to the last, while the water rose around them, never left her until her deck was awash...
...Aussies whom General Blarney brought home with him greatly reinforced the Australian and U.S. troops already strung from the south coast to bombarded Darwin. He must wait many months before enough U.S. troops and supplies can arrive to make Australia much more than a holding point against the Japanese. But General Blarney may soon have to hold Australia. Said he last week: "We are going to have a go for our lives. We are going to give the Japs a bloody stiff...
...long journey from Darwin to Melbourne is about as far as from Winnipeg to Miami. Aside from his air-sick family, General MacArthur had a good reason for making it by train and highway; this route from Australia's desolate northern deserts to the populous south was the most important, the most difficult military and supply route in his new command area...
General MacArthur traveled the narrow gauge, single-track railway which hooks bombarded Darwin to Birdum, 250 miles southward, in the heart of the continent's desert. Thence he had to drive 500 miles farther south on a new military highway, through lands so desolate that a U.S. pilot had said: "If I ever got forced down there, I would shoot myself...
First Australian town to be hit by Japanese bombs was the northern port of Darwin (pop. about 5,000). It may well be the first to meet invasion forces from the sea. Darwin, its adjoining coasts and the open desert in its rear are valuable to Australia because: 1) they lie within bomber reach of the Japanese in Java, Timor and New Guinea; 2) they form a front against overland penetration from the north. Darwin would be valuable to the Japs for its harbor and its airdromes, but mainly because, when conquered, it would no longer be a U.S.-Australian...