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After these first landings, far greater forces (estimated at 15,000 men) landed unopposed on the neck of Thailand, at Cape Patani and Singora. From there they hurried hellbent, by rail and road, with artillery, tanks and dive-bombers, due south toward Alor Star on the west coast. The British admitted falling back in the face of this heavier assault...
...Pearl Harbor and the sinkings off Malaya (see p. 20) testify to the skill with which Admiral Yamamoto has taken up the idea. This idea, extraordinarily enough considering what it has accomplished, has not been used with any great success by the German Air Force, which prefers dive-bombers...
McCutcheon Will Not Dive...
...Crimson squad is not up to its full strength, for Shaw McCutcheon, Ulen's ace diver, will not be able to compete. Wendell Smith will take McCutcheon's place, but it seems at this point that M.I.T. has the dive fairly well sewed up. The Techmen are already strong in this event, and the "McCutcheon handicap" should just about do the trick...
...extremely close race, beat out Bus Curwen and Tiny Gorman to take first place in the 220 yard free style. Hutter and Don Barker then took first and second, respectively, in the 50, while Rusty Greenhood and George Dana went ahead to take first and second in the dive. The bad news was completed when Hutter took his second first place, this time in the 100 yard free style...