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...Australia's northern perimeter of islands the Japanese had to take more than they dished out last week. Allied bombs ripped ships and men in the harbors of New Guinea and New Britain. Bombs tore runways, wrecked hangars and aircraft on invasion airdromes of New Guinea and Timor. Said a spokesman in Melbourne: "We are trying to keep the Japanese from stabilizing their position. . . . If we had a little more equipment, we could...
...Captain William Bligh and 18 men, set adrift in a 23-foot boat by the mutinied crew of H.M.S. Bounty in 1789, navigated 3,600 miles of open seas to Timor, Dutch East Indies. But Bligh had a small supply of food, water, navigation instruments and a much more seaworthy craft...
Then, in ships and barges, the Jap troops came. They were not quite ready for Java proper. They swarmed into Timor, where insufficient Dutch and Australian troops had moved in with the slender garrison in Portugal's half of the island. They pushed into Bali's dozing harbors, on to the palm-fringed shores...
...Battle for Java was on: Timor and Bali were necessary approaches to Java. So the Dutch fought fiercely on land; Dutch, U.S. and British aircraft concentrated over the Jap convoys. Admiral Helfrich's Dutch and U.S. cruisers, destroyers and naval aircraft opened up with everything they had on the Jap's naval and transport shipping. Soon, in the Java Sea, the biggest air and naval battles of the Indies campaign were raging...
...took his losses, secured his landings on Bali and Timor. With Bali, he won a foothold at Java's very edge on the east, to match his Sumatra springboard on the west. With Timor, he won another eastern approach and control of an essential waypoint on the route by which sorely needed fighter planes were flown from Australia to Java. And now he was probably near enough to Surabaya to immobilize that last, vital naval base even before he sent his troops against...