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Japanese troops also got ashore at three points on Minahassa, the thin, eastward-reaching upper handle of Celebes. Here the Jap came by sea and by parachute. He was already in British Sarawak, on the north coast of Borneo. Hein ter Poorten and his Army Air Force commander, thin-faced Major General L. H. van Oyen, promised that oil wells would be fired, refineries dynamited before the Jap got to them for the supplies he now needs more than anything in the world...
...fighting. Last April, kicked out by the Fascists, he crossed to Yugoslavia, just in time to meet the Germans coming in, narrowly missed a grenading by an advance Nazi motorcycle squad, and with a U.S. military attaché drove upstream through the Panzer army to Belgrade. His further progress eastward included a stop in Ankara, a hitch in Syria on the British push into that hellish terrain, and the job of covering the Cretan campaign from Cairo...
...Eastward their objective was Kerch, at the extremity of the peninsula-a likely spot from which to bomb, and perhaps from which to invade, the Caucasus...
...That eastward darkens everywhere...
...A.F.C. is virtually a huge one-way airline. Eastward to Britain each month fly fleets of sleek Lockheed Hudsons, big Boeing Flying Fortresses, plus some Consolidated Liberators (6-24) and a few Catalinas (PB-Y). They fly without the amenities of commercial airlines, part of the way without radio beams, with minimum equipment. The planes are built, not for transatlantic cruising, but for bombing flights...