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Before the main naval and air attack developed, the Jap reached his first objective, Balikpapan (where he found the wells, refineries, pipelines in scorched ruins, and Dutch troops ready to battle him ashore). But his convoy losses constituted a real defeat. His cruisers were reported in Macassar Strait only after the battle had well begun; he would scarcely have risked such valuable escorts unless he was hard-pressed. In that sector at least, he was definitely short of fighters to screen his own ships, bombers to attack the U.S. warships...
...Dutch airmen worked well together and with the surface fleet. By concentrating first on Jap planes and naval vessels, the bombers freed Admiral Hart's warships to knock off the transports like so many ducks...
These assaults slowed the Jap. It was yet to be shown that they had stopped his drive at the Indies' center. Unless he is stopped soon, the United Nations will have the infinitely harder job of driving him from his Indies, and from his sea lanes...
Inch by inch, with the glacierlike superiority of sheer mass, the Jap forced his way south on Bataan Peninsula. Before him the last big core of resistance in Luzon stood like a granite cliff of valor. The edges of the glacier crumbled, but mass enough to move mountains seemed to be behind...
...sleepless, bitter, astute defense made by American and Philippine soldiers had long since made Douglas MacArthur one of the great captains of U.S. military history. Against his 15-mile front the Jap charged again & again. Even Tokyo admitted that the going was bitter and hard. At the beginning of last week the Japanese paused to catch their breath and mend their supply lines...