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...Southward, in the State of Mysore, is another great industrial concentration, where Indian workmen produce iron & steel, even a few airplanes (trainers and Curtiss Hawk fighters). Now the British wish that more of India's industries were on the west coast, fewer on and near the Bay of Bengal's vulnerable shoreline. India's industrial prizes, in the Calcutta area, lie at the end of the shortest sea and air route from Burma...
Douglas MacArthur once said in the Philippines: "The United States has ordered me to defend these islands. I propose to defend them." Having defended them to the utmost, he spoke in candor and earnestness when he now proposed to relieve them. On his way southward he spoke incessantly of retaking the Philippines. If it was an obsession-perhaps a little out of focus with his new and larger task in Australia-it was natural for a man who had been through what he had in 94 days of fierce fighting and brilliant resistance...
...Indies, the Japanese airdromes and troop centers on Timor, the New Guinea airfields and harbors where the Japs were massing and Allied bombs were dropping. It was a course straight across Japan's new Pacific barriers, and it was a course for Douglas MacArthur to remember on the southward flight. He expected to retrace it some...
General MacArthur traveled the narrow gauge, single-track railway which hooks bombarded Darwin to Birdum, 250 miles southward, in the heart of the continent's desert. Thence he had to drive 500 miles farther south on a new military highway, through lands so desolate that a U.S. pilot had said: "If I ever got forced down there, I would shoot myself...
...Port Moresby by air and land, they have seemed to be reaching for Australia's long (2,900 mi.), vulnerable eastern coast. But even if they win Port Moresby's excellent harbor as a concentration point for their convoys, then leap to Cape York and southward toward Brisbane, they will have a hazardous and costly job. They will have to penetrate the long, jagged Great Barrier Reef, whose entrances have been well mined. Their transports and warships should be under continuous air assault from land-based planes. One consideration can make the Japs risk such a venture...