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...Japanese bombs was the northern port of Darwin (pop. about 5,000). It may well be the first to meet invasion forces from the sea. Darwin, its adjoining coasts and the open desert in its rear are valuable to Australia because: 1) they lie within bomber reach of the Japanese in Java, Timor and New Guinea; 2) they form a front against overland penetration from the north. Darwin would be valuable to the Japs for its harbor and its airdromes, but mainly because, when conquered, it would no longer be a U.S.-Australian base for attack on Japan...
...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: if they succeed, they will then be within bomber range of Australia's southern heart...
Well Tested. To defend the Middle East by attacking first, the British had raided Rhodes. At week's end they followed up with bomber attacks on Crete and the German submarine base at Eleusis near Athens. At the same time the British launched land and air attacks along the western route to Egypt. They shelled the Martüla airdrome in Libya while over the bomb-pocked British island base of Malta, R.A.F. fighters and anti-aircraft guns downed twelve German bombers and two Messerschmitt fighters in 24 hours. A report from London that Field Marshal Albert Kesselring...
...dreamy, sandy-haired son of Polish immigrants. After CCC camps in the West, they had both joined the Navy to see the world. But with 41-year-old Dixon, whose first hitch began in 1919, the Navy was a business. He took charge as soon as his beloved bomber sank from sight...
Meanwhile Hearstpapers beat the drums for savings bonds, Buy-a-Bomber campaigns, the immediate relief of MacArthur. But at the same time the Russians and the New Deal sent up the Hearst blood pressure even more than the Axis did. It took no expert at reading between lines to see the drift in an editorial on the Riom trials of Daladier and Léon Blum: "[The trials] may be the beginning of a new era of justice and of peace on this earth. . . . It is surely time that the men responsible for the murder and misery of war should...