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...Tide. Last week plump Admiral Helfrich was not at sea, but in the United Nations' well-guarded, teeming headquarters in interior Java. Under him, in the top sea command, was a U.S. naval officer whom Admiral Helfrich and all the Dutch had learned to admire: 55-year-old Vice Admiral William A. Glassford Jr. Admiral Glassford needed more cruisers, more destroyers, more submarines for the sea defense of Java. Admiral Helfrich needed men & munitions, but especially aircraft and airmen. Designed originally for defense from sea assault, Surabaya had already felt bombs from the air, expected land assaults from...
...Japanese bomb burst on Sumatra this week. It dropped at the one point on the long, narrow island where, by winning fast, the Jap could: 1) seize a major source of Indies oil; 2) set himself for his final drive at Java...
...drive on to the extreme southern tip, immobilizing the Dutch forces scattered through central and northern Sumatra. From the island's western coast he would have further command of the Indian Ocean and its vital routes (see p. 20). Only Sunda Strait would lie between the invader and Java...
...over the Indies joined U.S. and Dutch Air Forces in attacks on Jap-laden barges, transports and warships. Bombs smashed two cruisers and five transports, spread death in the barges. Hurricane pilots, probably fresh from Singapore, made six flights in a day from Palembang's airdrome, retired to Java only when the airdrome was lost...
...Palembang. True, it was a ruined Palembang, where he would have at least six months of restoration to do before he could get oil. But he was winning southern Sumatra. Very soon he would be at Java...