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...Battle for Java was on: Timor and Bali were necessary approaches to Java. So the Dutch fought fiercely on land; Dutch, U.S. and British aircraft concentrated over the Jap convoys. Admiral Helfrich's Dutch and U.S. cruisers, destroyers and naval aircraft opened up with everything they had on the Jap's naval and transport shipping. Soon, in the Java Sea, the biggest air and naval battles of the Indies campaign were raging...
...Army's new dive-bombers-low-winged, fast Douglas A245 -roared down at Jap ships and troop barges. Flying Fortresses, Tomahawks, PBYs, R.A.F. Hurricanes and the Dutch U.S.-made Lockheed Hudsons massed for the defense. A Jap cruiser seemed to disintegrate under U.S. bombs. One or more Jap destroyers went down. Confused though the communiques were, it was clear that the Jap lost heavily in warships, transports and troops...
...Jap took his losses, secured his landings on Bali and Timor. With Bali, he won a foothold at Java's very edge on the east, to match his Sumatra springboard on the west. With Timor, he won another eastern approach and control of an essential waypoint on the route by which sorely needed fighter planes were flown from Australia to Java. And now he was probably near enough to Surabaya to immobilize that last, vital naval base even before he sent his troops against...
...enough, said the Dutch, to hearten them, but not enough to give much help in the developing Battle for Java. More help was certainly on the way; much more was needed. Java, with its Dutch army of some 100,000 brown and white soldiers, would be no pushover. The Jap had to hurry if he was to complete his conquest of the Indies, his advance toward Australia, and his choking hold on the Indian Ocean's eastern trade routes. He hurried...
...predecessors, was 100% terse pessimism. Douglas Mac-Arthur and his battle-weary, outnumbered troops were still holding Bataan Peninsula and Manila Bay's five defensive forts. But their collapse under ever-increasing enemy weight and ferocity seemed imminent as never before. With Singapore taken (see p. 18), the Jap's battering blows against Bataan's defenders were becoming heavier and more frequent...