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...last days were black and sickening. At the mercy of unopposed Jap fighters, angry U.S. bomber crews had to take their few remaining Flying Fortresses from Javanese airdromes and flee to Australia. British fighter pilots followed; they had no more fighters to fly. Some of Java's high officialdom also fled; Lieut. Governor General Hubertus van Mook appeared in Adelaide, Australia, after the last hope was gone...
...back to the front with handsome recognition from his country: the Distinguished Service Cross* and Silver Star Medal for gallantry, the Purple Heart with two clasps, signifying his three battle wounds. Two of his wounds were still bandaged; the third did not show. In his last brush with the Jap, Arthur Wermuth had been shot in the chest, close to the heart. When he announced that he was going back to the front, the doctors in the tent hospital shook their heads and let him go. The wound was still open and draining as Wermuth sloshed through the rain...
...week wrung a gratifying drop of sap. The Japanese had done so badly on Luzon that a new commander had been sent to clean out the remnants of Douglas MacArthur's little force. The substitute: General Tomoyuki Yamashita (TIME, March 2), bandy-legged, pout-bellied commander of the Jap army in its swift, destructive rush through Malaya...
Anti-aircraft fire got some of the Japs. One was knocked down, according to the Navy, less than 100 yards from the carrier, as he tried to crash the flying deck. Through their own heavy anti-aircraft fire, U.S. Navy fighters whipped after the Jap. Continued McCarthy...
...Three Jap planes jettisoned their bombs and turned tail. O'Hare & friends overhauled them, shot them down. More bombers, nine this time, came on to attack. Anti-aircraft chewed them up, fighters ran them down. When the shooting was all over, the Japanese had lost 16 of the 18 planes they had sent over. U.S. losses: one pilot, two planes. Black-browed Lieut. O'Hare's score: six planes in a single flight, a record...