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...Helfrich took command, the U.P. correspondent in Batavia significantly cabled: "Admiral Helfrich is convinced that . . . the enemy not only can be stopped but driven back. He strongly opposes the idea of basing the United Nations' naval forces in Australia, contending that . . . the most suitable Australian base, at Port Darwin, is not suited to operational plans...
Asked if Australia would be a favorable base for a counter-attack, de Haas said, "Decidely not. Port Darwin is too far from the supply lines that Japan must maintain to keep her forces now in the Dutch Indies supplied...
...chances of holding Port Darwin are poor, according to de Haas. "It is not a strong base to begin with, and it is separated from the industrial southern part of Australia by miles of trackless desert. Once Darwin is lost our only hope will be to defend southern Australia...
This means that the Allies must hold these crucial points: Singapore, at the doorway to the Indian Ocean and the China Sea; Rangoon, where the road forks to India and China; Java's strong points; Australia's port, Darwin.* Even if Singapore falls, if the others are held, the Allies will still have their precious chance to exhaust the Jap to deny him control of the Pacific and Indian Oceans...
...thousand fresh fighter planes, in immediate operation from Rangoon to Darwin, would give the Allies a better than even chance to buck Japan's thinned and scattered Air Force, to save a minimum number of vital airdromes, to hold the skies until U.S. bombers arrived in effective numbers. Even 500 fighters-approximately one group each at five centers-might do the trick, if they arrived immediately and were quickly followed by more...