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From the Kurils to Java the Japanese were scanning the skies and the seas for the foe who had promised them that: 1) thousands of bombers would come to devastate their cities as Germany's had been devastated; 2) early in 1945 there would be twice as many fast carriers in the U.S. Pacific Fleet as there were last...
...jungles, said the Australian Army commander, General Sir Thomas Blamey, last week. Army Minister Francis Forde announced Australia's casualties since 1939: 83,976* including 16,639 killed, 5,976 missing. When the time comes to root Japs out of other bypassed areas, such as Java and Malaya, observers do not doubt that the Diggers will be doing that rooting, too. The Diggers' rear-area assignment would not be the hardest life they had seen, but it would be no vacation tour...
...squadron of unarmed Flying Fortresses into Hawaii early in the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, a 6 ft. Texan named Richard Carmichael has been in the middle of the war. In Australia his squadron joined the famed 19th Group which made its way out of the Philippines and Java. During the lean days of 1942 Carmichael made many a daring bombing mission over Lae, Salamaua, Rabaul, won the DSC, DFC, Silver Star. As a lieutenant colonel he took command of the 19th...
...hour later our Air Group was aboard. "Give us one more crack at those Jap airfields," they pleaded,"and there'll be no more Jap planes on Java." The Captain's sympathies were with them but he was acting under orders-and the job on Surabaya had been completed...
...Force in its scourging campaign in France in support of Allied ground troops. Annapolis-trained Lewis Brereton had seen more of World War II than most U.S. generals. In the attack on the Philippines he had lost all but a fragment of his air force, had moved on to Java, then to India, where he organized the Tenth Air Force, then to the Middle East where he commanded the Ninth which made the first great raids on the Ploesti oilfields...