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...Batavia accounts, there was a strangely light accent on air attack. Perhaps the always insufficient Allied bomber force was reserved for the land battle. Perhaps it had been depleted in earlier battles...
Java was already in the vise and the time and chance for an all-out test of Conrad Helfrich's long-planned offensive defense had gone, when he succeeded Admiral Hart in the supreme Indies naval command. His main base at Surabaya was under continuous bomber attack, first from carriers, then from captured land bases. Very soon, Vice Admiral Helfrich had on his hands a desperate job of defense, very close to home...
Plane-hungry U.S. and Filipino troops under General Douglas MacArthur adopted a slogan: "Better buy one bomber than be buried on Bataan." They agreed to contribute as much as a month's pay per man to a "Bomber for Bataan" fund...
...French coast. It is well known that the British have an effective short-wave device for locating planes at night or in clouds. Less well known is the fact that the Germans have a locator equally effective. The German device worked perfectly on the U.S. Catalina patrol bomber which spotted the Bismarck last May: the bomber had been followed through the clouds by radio detection from the German battleship, and the instant the plane appeared it got such a hail of ack-ack fire that it had to retreat...
Berlin propagandists immediately began saying that the attempt on the Ambassador's life was British-Russian intrigue. But on the scattered remains of the supposed bomber were found German Embassy letterheads. Police who painstakingly pieced the victim's remnants together reported he was no Moslem or Jew. Perhaps the foxy Ambassador had himself planned the appearance of an attempt on his life which had turned out badly for the man blown to smithereens. Or perhaps the Ambassador was again being hunted by his own countrymen...