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When the Japanese attacked in December, prescient Admiral Helfrich flung up his arms and exclaimed: "There you have it! We could have sunk their transports." His fleet was already at sea, and 24 hours after the first Jap attacks, his submarines sank four enemy transports off Malaya. His Navy's bag in the first 54 days of war: 54 Jap ships...
...Japs landed-at Rembang, only 109 miles in Surabaya's rear and 70 miles from the town where Conrad Helfrich was born. Admiral Helfrich's naval war was not over; there would be still more Jap convoys to harry and ravage. But the land battle for Java had begun. Soldiers and airmen would now do the fighting for the sailor's home...
...Jap and The MacArthur glared at each other across the swamps and swirling hills of Bataan Peninsula. All the rounds so far had gone to the Jap. But he had not landed a knockout blow. He sat down to wait and think. That was a mistake...
...plain that MacArthur had gambled on disrupting Japanese plans for an all-out offensive. He might even have captured maps and orders detailing the attack plan. He was missing no tricks. He even struck behind the Jap lines at civilian morale by authorizing expenditure through a Civilian Emergency Administration of $5,000,000 for relief of Filipino soldier and civilian victims of the Jap onslaught...
Irrepressible American humor bubbled up out of the Jap-infested bamboo jungles of Bataan Peninsula last week. It had broad sweeps of satire, muted undertones of tragedy...