Word: overlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First the Japanese sent paratroops. They hoped to seize Palembang's oil before Dutch demolitionists could lay everything waste, as they had at Tarakan and Balikpapan. The paratroops died by hundreds, failed in their mission. Seaborne invaders followed. They landed at the mouth of the Musi River, swarmed overland through swamps and marshes. Outnumbered, outgunned, Dutch and native defenders killed hundreds, but the thousands overwhelmed them...
...originated a spare-parts system of submarine manufacture, which gave Germany a U-boat fleet, packed away in crates and waiting assembly, long before the Versailles restrictions were overtly junked; which now makes possible overland transport of unassembled submarines...
...Joseph Washington Frazer, Willys-Overland Motors president, invited the dealers to become manufacturers. Frazer, swamped with $142,000,000 in war orders (Willys' 1940 sales: $14,557,000), needs and wants subcontractors. So he sent out over 40,000 questionnaires to dealers asking for details on their tools, floor space and manpower. When he gets his answers Frazer will have something no one else has: data on the manufacturing capacities of auto-repair equipment...
...Willys-Overland became the first automaker to quit autos, is now 100% converted to war goods...
...truculent and evasive witness, Cohen testified that he had interested Willys-Overland (motors) in forming Empire Ordnance, that when Willys-Overland pulled out he found new backers, kept 30% of the common stock for himself and his family...