Word: java
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lost a friend when the U.S.S. Houston went down in the great naval battle of the Java Sea: the sleek 10,000-ton heavy cruiser was a favorite; on her he had traveled 25,445 miles, taken four voyages...
...kill a Jap with your yap." That was the kind of rude remark the U.S. citizen was writing to his Congressmen last week. Rarely, if ever, had contemporary Congresses seen such mail. The letters were blistering. The average citizen blamed his Congressman for every defeat from Pearl Harbor to Java, and told him so in writing that scorched the paper...
...manpower, equipment and shipping, the U.S. would strive there to hold a last corner of the southwest Pacific, to build up its forces for counterattack. The U.S. and MacArthur would have to move fast. This week, on the day that Douglas MacArthur arrived, a Japanese Fleet moved southward from Java toward Australia's long and vulnerable eastern coast...
...enough to make a real difference in the battle for Australia. The Army's communiqué spoke only of "considerable numbers," gave no exact information as to strength. But if the Japs should enter Australia this week, they would find, on a slightly larger scale, the story of Java, where a few U.S. bombers had too little fighter protection, where a few hundred artillerymen were the sole ground troops...
...lies only 240 miles off the southeastern coast of Africa, athwart the United Nations' sea lane around the Cape of Good Hope to the Persian Gulf, to India and Australia. If Japan had Madagascar, the Axis would threaten the whole Indian Ocean. Madagascar is 3,800 miles from Java and 7,200 from Tokyo-not as far as Australia is from...