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...Battle for Java was on: Timor and Bali were necessary approaches to Java. So the Dutch fought fiercely on land; Dutch, U.S. and British aircraft concentrated over the Jap convoys. Admiral Helfrich's Dutch and U.S. cruisers, destroyers and naval aircraft opened up with everything they had on the Jap's naval and transport shipping. Soon, in the Java Sea, the biggest air and naval battles of the Indies campaign were raging...
...took his losses, secured his landings on Bali and Timor. With Bali, he won a foothold at Java's very edge on the east, to match his Sumatra springboard on the west. With Timor, he won another eastern approach and control of an essential waypoint on the route by which sorely needed fighter planes were flown from Australia to Java. And now he was probably near enough to Surabaya to immobilize that last, vital naval base even before he sent his troops against...
...both Australian and U.S. aid was arriving in Java. In addition to the new U.S. planes, a few U.S. troops had landed -just enough, said the Dutch, to hearten them, but not enough to give much help in the developing Battle for Java. More help was certainly on the way; much more was needed. Java, with its Dutch army of some 100,000 brown and white soldiers, would be no pushover. The Jap had to hurry if he was to complete his conquest of the Indies, his advance toward Australia, and his choking hold on the Indian Ocean...
...Washington, where pressure for reinforcements for Douglas MacArthur grew, military experts explained with weary patience that a relief force is out of the question. Transportation is the insoluble problem. Heavy bombers could fly the more than 1,000 miles from Java, the nearest Allied base to Manila Bay, but not the lighter escort planes that must accompany such an armada. Water-borne planes and troops would have little, if any, chance of running the Jap's naval gantlet. Said Deputy Chief of Staff Major General R. C. Moore to the House Appropriations Committee: "We could have...
...force ought to be kept on the mainland, that men and material should even be snatched back from war fronts abroad. Quite different was the opinion of The Dutch East Indies' Lieut. Governor General Dr. Hubertus van Mook, who was in Sydney last week. Throw everything possible to Java, urged Hubertus van Mook, and Java can be saved from capture...