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Last week bombers from Jap bases in China raided the airdromes at Lishui and Chuhsien. Afterward the Japanese said" that U.S. technicians had lengthened the runways, otherwise improved Lishui and Chuhsien in preparation for the arrival of U.S. bombers...
...fighting planes that might have won the battle and preserved the key of the Indies for the Allies. More than half of the survivors who were picked up by destroyers and transferred to the naval oiler Pecos, were lost two days later when the oiler was sunk by Jap bombers...
...almost made it. Then, near Java one morning, a single Jap reconnaissance plane circled her, took a look, streaked for home. Bright signal flags fluttered from the Langley's halyards, and her windburned skipper, Commander Robert Perche McConnell, set himself for the worst. It came just before noon...
...north whipped nine Jap bombers at high altitude. Anti-aircraft slammed against the chattering of machine guns, and the convoy zigzagged in a crazy pattern. The Jap took dead aim and let go. His first salvo missed. The second took the Langley fairly. Dive-bombers bored in, slammed the old tender again & again...
Then, after the Jap had left, the destroyers finished the job. The old covered wagon, like a crippled dog, was still on her feet. The destroyers swung alongside, sent shell after shell into her hull. Finally she was totally hit. Low in the water, she lurched, bubbled horribly, went down. Her airplanes were safe from the Jap...