Word: macassar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...noon, and the tropic sun beat down on placid Macassar, in the Celebes, deep in the heart of The Netherlands Indies. Macassar had served the Jap well as an inner base through which to funnel supplies to forward areas. Last week there were six medium-sized cargo vessels in Macassar Harbor and a cruiser for protection. Suddenly the sky was darkened by a flock of fat-bellied Liberators, and a rain of explosives-incendiaries to one-ton bombs-fell on town and harbor. The Wilhelmina and Juliana docks burst into flame. A 2,000-pounder cracked the cruiser squarely...
Nightmare Field. Malang Field near Surabaya was "a better job of camouflaging than anything we'd ever dreamed of in the Philippines." Before long, it was a nightmare field. From here the shattered remnants of the U.S. 19th Bombardment Group tried to stop the massive Japanese advance down Macassar Straits to Java...
...Japanese ships sunk by Allied claims in the Battle of Macassar Straits was reduced by some observers to four...
...well as in Europe. Australians knew better. The Jap had been thwarted before but he always came back for more, because he always had more reserves close by than the United Nations in the south Pacific could lay their hands on. So it was after the Battle of Macassar Strait (TIME, Feb. 2). And so it was after the Battle of Bali, when he took another shellacking. He always got where he was headed...
There he sent them into brilliant but unavailing raids and battles over the Indies, the Java Sea, the Strait of Macassar. His fighter protection dwindled, almost vanished. Feb. 17, Brereton and Lieut. General George H. Brett, the top U.S. (and Allied) air commander in the southwest Pacific, agreed that Brett would take the remaining U.S. planes and crews to Australia; Brereton would fly with Britain's General Wavell to India, and there build a force to strike at Japan through China. It was a momentous decision, doubtless reached only after consultation with Washington and London...