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Fight. That evening Jesse Jones went to a gala party of Washington's hail-fellow Alfalfa Club, but his heart was not in the fun. His Texas temper, tender from years of being left alone, still twitched and writhed. He bumped smack into the Washington Post's publisher, trim, high-domed Eugene Meyer...
...Corregidor saw only a little of the ghastly end. The last, pitifully small ammunition dump on Bataan went up in smoke and flame; the three ships at the water's edge (including the 6,000-ton sub tender Canopus) were dynamited. Finally, from one of the heights on Bataan, a white flag went up. How many of the 36,000 died fighting, only the Japs knew...
...dashing attempt of the U.S. Navy to turn the tide in the Battle of Java became public property at last. The U.S.S. Langley, hulking old aircraft tender, was bombed and sunk Feb. 27. She was knocked out by Japanese land-based bombers as she approached Java with a cargo of U.S. fighting planes that might have won the battle and preserved the key of the Indies for the Allies. More than half of the survivors who were picked up by destroyers and transferred to the naval oiler Pecos, were lost two days later when the oiler was sunk...
...whipped nine Jap bombers at high altitude. Anti-aircraft slammed against the chattering of machine guns, and the convoy zigzagged in a crazy pattern. The Jap took dead aim and let go. His first salvo missed. The second took the Langley fairly. Dive-bombers bored in, slammed the old tender again & again...
When the news of the sinking of the aircraft tender Langley was released, there was hardly a newsman in Washington who had not known about it for weeks. They had kept the secret loyally-not a word had leaked into print. But there was every reason to question whether their silence had made any sense...