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...starter, with as many more following in quick order, could play havoc with Japanese troop convoys-as a fraction of 500 did in the Strait of Macassar. > Five anti-aircraft regiments-again, one each at the do-or-die points-would give limited, local ground protection from Jap bombers, until more guns and crews arrived. But the only safe anti-aircraft maxim is "all you can get," and the far Pacific could use all the guns the U.S. can produce, man and ship for months to come. Anti-aircraft is second only to planes on the list of emergency priorities...
...naval reinforcement. The Dutch asked only for light naval craft: destroyers, light cruisers and submarines. Any newsreader could note the effectiveness of the small U.S. Asiatic Fleet (with its supporting aircraft) in blasting Japanese convoys in the Strait of Macassar. He could note, too, the depressing fact that the Jap first approached vital Amboina with a piddling naval escort, got little or no naval opposition. Three cruisers, a dozen destroyers, even one aircraft carrier, would bolster U.S. and Dutch naval strength in the Indies, would help to stop the Jap short of Java...
...Jap was relentless: his was the patience, the endurance, the determination to wipe out the last Philippine defender, though it meant expenditure of a major force on the bloody, outnumbered remnants of the islands' defensive garrison. His heavy artillery, from cleverly concealed positions across Manila Bay, bombarded three of the four forts guarding the bay. His bombers braved uncannily accurate ack-ack fire to hound Bataan positions night & day. His infantry closed in, hoping for the kill...
...date the best Jap efforts have not been enough. The men pictured here and hundreds of others like them are the reasons why. Seen and unseen, they are all heroes...
These were just a few of the promotions and honors that grow in significance each day Bataan continues to withstand the Jap's assaults. Two were in a class by themselves: Second Lieutenant Alexander Ramsey ("Sandy") Nininger Jr., posthumously honored with World War II's first Congressional Medal of Honor for "intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty" (TIME, Feb. 9), and Captain Colin P. Kelly (TIME, Dec. 22), who was awarded a posthumous D.S.C...