Word: java
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...Brewster Aeronautical Corp. of Long Island City is among the most substantial U.S. production fizzles of World War II. Earlier in the war, Brewster made a fighter plane, the Buffalo, that got into action in the Far East before Java and Singapore fell. By 1942 it had converted to making the Buccaneer, a not-so-hot dive-bomber, and is about to start making the Vought Corsair, an excellent Navy fighter. But the biggest trouble is not with the quality of Brewster planes, but with the quantity, which is a very meager military secret. Thus far the Axis...
...young officers arriving frustrated in Australia from the Battle of Java had the same idea in cruder form (fired by their first drinks in weeks). Hearing that a convoy was unloading at the Melbourne docks, they called for volunteers. Object: to throw the typewriters on the ships overboard before they could be landed. Luckily for them, but perhaps unluckily for fighting proficiency, they got no volunteers...
Anyone who cared could add the facts up for himself: the war has left I.T. & T. already well in the black, and peace should mean high doings everywhere, from Hungary to Java, for Mr. Behn...
India, Burma, China. The 513th was spawned of confusion when 430 men of a bomb group's ground crews and six pursuit pilots turned up in Melbourne, Australia without planes. Mostly destined for the Philippines, they were started for Java in February 1942, but Java fell first and they went instead to Karachi, India. There they found ten B-17s, picked up some dislocated combat crews who had come out of Java and the Philippines, and from the U.S. via Africa. At last the Bastards were ready to fly. They started by bombing Rangoon and the Andaman Islands...
Since the Battle of Java, Pilot Grant Mahoney of the U.S. Army Air Forces has been sweating out a fifth aerial victory, which would make him an ace (TIME, Jan. 11). Last week Grant Mahoney, by now a major, was still a four-plane man. But south of Lashio, Burma, he riddled and destroyed four more Jap railroad engines, became a locomotive...