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...Army airmen also jumped into the Malaya fight, burned grounded planes and a hangar on a Jap airdrome 300 miles northwest of Singapore...
Sending his troops into action last week, Major General Bennett told them: "Our job is not only to delay the Jap, but also to destroy him." His Aussies rushed right out and destroyed 20 enemy tanks, ten armored cars...
...Japanese announced that they had already cracked it, forced the British to admit that they had driven across the Muar River only 100 miles north of Singapore. Furthermore the Japanese, by cutting across the narrow gooseneck above Malaya into Burma, dampened the Aussies' hopes that the Jap rear might be harassed...
...Aussies had begun to fight. But beyond that there could be no more: in the last 50 miles north of the island are the water reservoirs of the city. These have to be held. Hong Kong eventually fell for lack of water. Either the Aussies must give the Jap his jippo above those reservoirs, or Singapore would catch the Japanese for hell...
...destroy the last tough remnant of U.S. resistance in the Philippines the Jap was willing to pay dearly. So last week, the sixth of the Battle of Luzon, he lashed fiercely at General Douglas MacArthur's tough little Army. MacArthur's men, holed up in the mountain-wild Bataan peninsula with an anchor below on the island fortress of Corregidor in Manila Bay, gave better than they received...