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...Group joined the original 19th in Java. Casualties were heavy-the 7th lost two commanding officers in a week-so the two groups were re-formed into the new 19th...
...Admiral Speaks. To Admiral King of "the silent service," loquacity is a vice, and in public he has said very little. The Marshall and Gilbert Island raids had briefly lifted American spirits, Singapore and Java had fallen, Bataan was falling, and Admiral King had become both OPNAV and COMINCH when he said in March: "Our days of victory are in the making...
...been quite a year for the air shock troops. For a while the war was Japan v. the 19th. There had been times when the group was so badly battered-in the Philippines, in Java, in Australia-that not a plane could be got off the ground. But the Flying Fortresses over Europe and Africa fly better today because of what the 19th learned...
Master Sergeant Louis T. ("Soup") Silva, aged 47, who won the Distinguished Service Cross for shooting down at least three Japanese Zeros over Java (TIME, April 20), had long been considered No. 1 anomaly in an Air Force whose combat crews' average age is under 25. After fabulous Gunner Silva's death in the accidental crash of a Flying Fortress in Australia last July, oldsters apparently lost their toe hold in the Air Forces. But last week in London a lean, grizzled, Fortress tailgunner aged 44 turned up: Staff Sergeant Merril W. Gilger, World War I Field Artillery...
...kapok tree-is the buoyant filling of most life jackets, many life rafts and lifeboat airtight compartments. It can support up to 35 times its own weight. In peacetime, kapok's biggest use was in mattresses, upholstery padding and the like. Most (and the best) kapok came from Java. The Japs put a stop to that. Now, as demand soars, rigidly controlled kapok inventories are running...