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...about Dr. Corydon Wassell (rhymes with throstle). Dr. Wassell was a plain Arkansas country doctor who went as a medical missionary to China, later joined the U.S. Naval Reserve. He was put in charge of wounded men from the shattered cruisers Marblehead and Houston, which got to Java just ahead of the Japs. Dr. Wassell stowed his casualties in an inland hospital...
When 60,000 Japanese invaded Java, Dr. Wassell was ordered to evacuate all his wounded who could walk. The stretcher cases were to be left to the Japanese. Disobeying the order, Dr. Wassell brought all of his men back to the coast. When a ship captain refused to take the stretcher cases aboard, Dr. Wassell stayed behind with them. The only able-bodied man among them, Dr. Wassell kept the nine wounded men alive, somehow got eight of them through the jungle to the coast and aboard the overcrowded Dutch steamer Janssens, the last United Nations ship to leave Java...
...Lovely Island. But last week's most interesting Pacific gesture was a carrier task-force raid on Surabaya on the north coast of Java. Next to Singapore, Surabaya was the biggest non-Japanese naval base in the Far Pacific-bigger than Manila or Hong Kong...
...crusty old sailor of 16 years' sea service and a veteran of the Battle of the Java Seas...
...still stood firm in their predictions of a long war against Japan. Even if the Japs lost Truk (which they will not until many foot soldiers have lost their lives taking it), or if Truk were bypassed, many bases remained for Admiral Koga's Navy: Singapore, Surabaya in Java, Balikpapan in Borneo, Saipan in the Marianas, Manila and the Japanese homeland bases...