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...Flying Fortress units in the Pacific, since July 11. He fought through the bitter days of plane losses on the ground and in the air to overwhelming Jap numbers. At last, after three weeks of uneven battle, rather than lose his remaining Fortresses and crews, he took them to Java...
Only three weeks distant from the bitter air battles over Java, Air Corps Lieutenant Trenkle was one of four Air Officers to impress on 150 students in Emerson D last night the urgent need for a steady supply of officer material, especially for flying duty...
...Dutch successfully started planting cinchona trees in Java from one pound of South American seed. In recent years, after South American forests were plundered, the Dutch Kina Bureau controlled 95% of the world's quinine supply (33,000,000 oz.), kept the price pegged at an exorbitant 67? an oz. With Java now fallen to the Japanese, the supply of quinine to the U.S. (which has about 3,000,000 cases of malaria in the Southern States) has been cut off. So have all shipments to Russia, India and South America...
...long, the U.S. and British lines, from supply sources to the battle areas, were infinitely longer. Moreover, if the Jap fronts stretched far from home, they were nevertheless fairly close to each other. Result: the Japs could switch squadrons back & forth from one front to another, from Malaya to Java, from Java to Burma, and could usually base them near their next objective. Old crates could be used where opposition in the air was inconsiderable or nonexistent. Until last week, one such place was Japan itself...
...Malaya, off Java and now off India, the naval story was the same: the U.S. and British were caught by superior Japanese forces. The Allies in these areas had lost the equivalent of a formidable fleet: two capital ships (Prince of Wales, Repulse), four heavy cruisers, three or more light cruisers, twelve to 15 destroyers. At any one place and time, with effective air support, they could have beaten the Japs. As it was, piecemeal, the Allies lost both the ships and the battles...