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Over Rangoon a protective covey of American-flown Tomahawks (P-40s) and British Hurricanes beat off incessant waves of day & night bombing attacks. Paced by John Van Kuren ("Scarsdale Jack") Newkirk (25 Jap planes shot down), who cut short a week-old honeymoon last July to join the American Volunteer Group, the outnumbered U.S., British, Australian, Canadian and Indian pilots in Burma chalked up 122 enemy planes against only five losses for themselves...
...northern approaches to Java the Jap strengthened his footholds in Borneo and Celebes. From ruined Balikpapan patrols fought southward toward Banjermasin on Borneo's south coast, 300 miles from Java...
When & if Jap wins Java, he wins the Indies with their riches and mastery of seaways which link the Western Hemisphere, Australia, Africa, India, Suez and their imperial routes...
Crocodiles & Cannon. This week a new book about Java and all Oceania appears: Australian Paul McGuire's Westward the Course! (Morrow; $3.75). Author McGuire is a professional traveler, lecturer, writer of mystery stories. His book was written before the Jap struck, but Westward the Course! is a timely introduction to the coming Battle for Java...
...biggest club in World War II is production, the head on the club is surprise production-a total output which will exceed anything the enemy has reason to expect, in much less time than he would normally expect. Moral: why tell the Jap (as he was told last week) that the U.S. is upping its output of long-range bomber engines...