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...could keep the South China Sea open for supply ships and tankers for a few more weeks, they had already lost heavily on the fuel front: aircraft from four British carriers, commanded by dashing, slashing (but nonflying) Rear Admiral Sir Philip Louis Vian, had bombed the Palembang refineries on Sumatra, cutting by an estimated 75% their high-octane-gasoline output...
Almost 2,000 miles to the west, British carriers from .across the Indian Ocean flew off aircraft to blast the Pangkalanbrandan refinery on Sumatra. Northeast, 3,000 miles from Luzon, a U.S. Ninth Fleet task force stood in to the fogbound coast of Paramushiro, where the Japs' Kuril Islands nudge Soviet Kamchatka, and laid heavy fire on harbor installations at Suribachi...
More spectacular was the second India-based B-29 raid: nearly 2,000 miles for a daylight strike at Singapore, the first since Britain's naval bastion fell to the Japs in February 1942. Except for a B-29 night raid last August on Palembang, Sumatra, this was the longest mission ever made by bombers. Tokyo said 30 B-29s were involved...
Along a 6,000-mile arc of the Japs' Pacific defenses the Allied blows fell thick & fast. They flared like lightning strokes from Sumatra, where the Allied Eastern Fleet beat up Padang and Emmahaven, to Halmahera, where the enemy feared General MacArthur's next amphibious stroke, to the Kurils, northeast of Japan...
They got the final proof last week when B-29 Superfortresses of the Twentieth U.S. Air Force bombed the great Palembang oil refineries in remote southeastern Sumatra in the longest-range air assault of the war. If the B-29s could reach Palembang they could reach anywhere in Japan's homeland islands or in Greater East Asia...