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...Jap was still paying heavily for his conquest of the Philippines. A crack regiment of Japanese regulars, harassing the defenders' left flank, lost out after a week of savage fighting to U.S. troops and Filipino scouts. The thinning line was still holding...
...insoluble problem. Heavy bombers could fly the more than 1,000 miles from Java, the nearest Allied base to Manila Bay, but not the lighter escort planes that must accompany such an armada. Water-borne planes and troops would have little, if any, chance of running the Jap's naval gantlet. Said Deputy Chief of Staff Major General R. C. Moore to the House Appropriations Committee: "We could have a lot of them [bombers to MacArthur] by this time, if we could get them there...
...Australia bickering is as much of a national pastime as bets and beer. Since 1940 Australia has bickered about how, how much and where to help the Empire. Last week there was still bickering, but only about one thing: how to keep the Jap off the country's neck...
...next seven and a half days were packed with equally nervous moments. His ship, last to leave Singapore harbor, was bombed with deadly efficiency by the Jap, was soon in flames. Yates McDaniel, propped against a coil of rope, took notes, stopping only to help fight the fires. A jam-packed lifeboat finally carried the oar-weary, bailing survivors to Bangka Island, five miles away. At dark, the tide so low that lifeboats could not float within a half-mile of the beach, the weary party began wading to deep water and rescuing launches from a nearby rubber plantation. Said...
...with dry-cargo tonnage (see p. 10 ), the lonely sea miles of distance offset this huge preponderance of tonnage. Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) alone operates qr controls some 2,200,000 tons, nearly six times the entire Jap tanker tonnage (430,000), and twice the combined German, Italian and Jap tanker fleets. But these and other Allied tankers were built for relatively short, peacetime routes: from the Near East and Black Sea to Europe via the Mediterranean, from Gulf and Caribbean ports to Bayonne and Liverpool. By last year Britain, whose pre-war tanker fleet was over three million tons...