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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...
...Berkman sees milkweed as a permanent, profitable crop which can supplant Java kapok now and after...
...eyebrows in civilian defense and war relief in Manhattan was little Raden Ajoe Abdullcadir Widjojoatmodjo, Javanese princess, refugee from Jap-invaded Batavia. Air-raid warden, Red Cross worker, lecturer, maker of surgical dressings, she remembers a legend that foretells a better day: "Three hundred years ago, a king of Java prophesied that yellow people would invade Java-but not for long. Look at that-not for long. Means they will not be there long, the Japs. It is good omen...
...other correspondent killed at Lisbon was no veteran. Frank J. Cuhel, 38, unmarried and a 1928 Olympic Games hurdler from Iowa, was an export firm's Java representative in 1941. Pearl Harbor changed his life. He became a Mutual Broadcasting System correspondent in the Dutch East Indies, survived many a bombing, got out a hop ahead of the Japs, then broadcast from Australia until last year's end. He did so well that Mutual decided to send him to North Africa...