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...base, then, as the Japs drew closer, as a place to load bombs and gas on missions flown from Australia, "touching it as lightly as you would a hot stove." They flew 18 hours a day, with minutes of cat naps in between, until they were sent down to Java...
...Field near Surabaya was "a better job of camouflaging than anything we'd ever dreamed of in the Philippines." Before long, it was a nightmare field. From here the shattered remnants of the U.S. 19th Bombardment Group tried to stop the massive Japanese advance down Macassar Straits to Java...
...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...