Word: java
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young lieutenant not long out of Yale, a Flying Fortress bombardier, spoke up: "Let me tell you a story. After we left Java and landed at an airport in the north of Australia, we heard a single plane coming in at midnight. There was a hell of a crash as an old box-kite biplane zoomed crazily and nearly nosed over. We rushed out and there was an old Curtiss-God knows what model, but it must have been early experimental-smashed badly. None of us would have been allowed to fly it, let alone fight in it. Under...
...There was a Dutchman up in Broome, where the Japs killed so many civilians," said a captain. "This Dutchman had escaped from Java. During that surprise attack, which caught us on the ground without anti-aircraft or pursuit, the Dutchman ran out to one of the Fortresses and wrenched a 30-calibre machine gun out of it. He started firing like mad, and damned if he didn't shoot one down. You know, it's a hellish job even to hold a machine gun. This Dutchman had held it by the barrel, which was almost...
...Americans brought as many Dutch pilots as they could out of Java. One pilot loaded 35 men, Americans and Dutchmen, into his four-motored bomber and took off at the beach at 2 a.m. Says he: "Something besides engines lifted that plane off the ground that night." Most Dutch pilots have had four years of training and they can fly anything. You see them all over Australia, in small, morose, green uniformed groups. Most of them left everything they loved in Java. They ask in anguish: "When do we get something to fly?" One day last week I had lunch...
That night I met a young lieutenant of the Dutch Navy in a downtown hotel. He limped badly from a piece of shrapnel in his thigh, a souvenir of the Battle of the Java Sea. The doctor had forbidden him to leave the ship, but he hadn't been ashore for nine months. After a couple of highballs he had to leave because the leg hurt so badly, but before leaving he told his story: since the war started in '39, he had had seven ships shot out from under him, and the last time only...
...newspaper Yomiuri, Navy spokesman Captain Hideo Hiraide wrote that, since the conquest of Java, Japan seemed to have taken the defensive while the Allies were on the offensive. He warned that Japan would probably be attacked from the air, that it was too soon for her newly captured raw materials to be fully exploited, that transportation was a difficult problem...