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Wingman Down. With the British (and Jumping Joe in command of the combined air groups) Group Twelve slashed at Jap bases at Sabang on the tip of Sumatra and the once-great Dutch naval base at Surabaya. Group Twelve lost one plane in each show...
...three days after Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten moved from inland New Delhi to Kandy on the island of Ceylon off India's southern tip. Under command of salty British Admiral Sir James F. Somerville, the task-force carriers turned into a dawn wind, launched their planes near Sumatra...
Allied flyers (American pilots outnumbered the British 2-to-1) caught the Japanese with their kimonos up, peppered the island port of Sabang just off Sumatra's northern tip, salted down Lho Nga airfield on Sumatra proper. Japanese installations were torn, five small ships burned, 25 airplanes wrecked...
Ghost Story. Radio Tokyo announced that the population of Medan, Sumatra, had dropped 23,000 in the last year, noted that 8,000 had been sent overseas, guessed that the rest "just disappeared, like a ghost population...
...Problem. For the first time, hints of friction in Southeast Asia had been spoken out loud. Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten differs with Stilwell, looks far into the future, wants to retake Sumatra, Malaya (with Singapore), Thailand, Indo-China, punch through a sea route to China. Stilwell's Chinese troops and his air force are necessary for that program...