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...Good Friday, the Navy Department had a somber message to interpose: three more U.S. warships had been sunk in the month-old battle off Java (see p. 25). On Easter Sunday the Christian nation went heavily to its churches, celebrated the resurrection of Jesus, who had died to save the world. Death and the war, whatever its right name might be, hung heavy over the country...
Tokyo fears, and Chungking hopes, that long-range U.S. bombers may soon attack Japan from South China. Flying Fortresses, such as those evacuated from Java to Australia, could easily bomb the great Jap base on Formosa, 300 miles southeast of the Chinese airdrome at Lishui. With flights no longer than Fortresses have made in other battle areas, bombers from Lishui and Chuhsien could reach Kobe or Kyoto in Japan itself...
...Americans brought as many Dutch pilots as they could out of Java. One pilot loaded 35 men, Americans and Dutchmen, into his four-motored bomber and took off at the beach at 2 a.m. Says he: "Something besides engines lifted that plane off the ground that night." Most Dutch pilots have had four years of training and they can fly anything. You see them all over Australia, in small, morose, green uniformed groups. Most of them left everything they loved in Java. They ask in anguish: "When do we get something to fly?" One day last week I had lunch...
That night I met a young lieutenant of the Dutch Navy in a downtown hotel. He limped badly from a piece of shrapnel in his thigh, a souvenir of the Battle of the Java Sea. The doctor had forbidden him to leave the ship, but he hadn't been ashore for nine months. After a couple of highballs he had to leave because the leg hurt so badly, but before leaving he told his story: since the war started in '39, he had had seven ships shot out from under him, and the last time only...
...newspaper Yomiuri, Navy spokesman Captain Hideo Hiraide wrote that, since the conquest of Java, Japan seemed to have taken the defensive while the Allies were on the offensive. He warned that Japan would probably be attacked from the air, that it was too soon for her newly captured raw materials to be fully exploited, that transportation was a difficult problem...