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Flight 3 moved on through the night, into a bright Midwestern dawn. At Albuquerque, N.Mex., room had to be found for 15 officers and men of the Army ferry command, returning to their Coast base. Four passengers gave up their seats: one was Violinist Joseph Szigeti...
Fury. The Chinese and the Dutch were not too happy anyhow. They had been slighted in the formation of the Allied Supreme Far Eastern Command. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had not been taken into the joint counsels beforehand, had been tossed an unlikely bone-operations in Indo-China and Thailand. The Dutch had been left out altogether. And yet the Allied Supreme Command demanded Chinese troops, airmen and goods in Burma; then proceeded to Java and began to tell the Dutch what...
With it, the N.E.I. Army and Navy grew. When Hein ter Poorten took command last October he had around 100,000 soldiers. Motorization was speeding along. Artillery, another Ter Poorten specialty, was heavily increased. For defense against the inevitable attack, oil wells were mined. Around airfields and open spaces were set poles tipped with poison which slant-eyed Malayans constantly renewed...
Last week as the battle for the Indies was joined, the U.S. and Britain had tacitly acknowledged the importance of the struggle. In command of the defense was General Sir Archibald Wavell, with Hein ter Poorten working under his command. In command of the sea forces-the U.S. Asiatic Fleet, the N.E.I. Navy and British units-was Admiral Tommy Hart, assisted by Admiral Helfrich...
Suddenly at midweek, Singapore burst into cheers. The British Malayan Command at last threw the Australians into battle. Flippant as ever, the Aussies moved up to the line, through columns of haggard retiring Britons and Indians, in busses marked' "Tokyo or Bust" and "Nippon Express...