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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Maria Bertha Hertogh was five years old when the Japanese soldiers took her mother & father away from Bandung, Java, where papa Adriaanus Hertogh was a sergeant in The Netherlands East Indies army. Bertha was too young to remember just how it happened, but while she was staying at the home of Che Aminah, a Malay woman known to her parents, the rest of the family disappeared into prison camp...
...disposal for use in Korea. A halfback on West Point's 1927 football team, O'Donnell began his World War II career with a bitter delaying action, in which he and a handful of other U.S. airmen fought and fell back from the Philippines to Java to India. He became operations officer of the Tenth Air Force in India and later leader of the Twentieth Air Force's first B-29 raid on Tokyo...
...government promptly called on Aziz to report in person to Jakarta (formerly Batavia), the Indonesian capital. When he refused to budge, he was labeled a rebel. Government army units began to mobilize along the north Java coast, despite the fact that they had no ships other than Dutch to transport them to Macassar...
...Dutch army in 1948, began to recruit his own private army to fight against the new Indonesian Republic. His 10,000 troops, mostly Moslem extremists and deserters from the Dutch army, call themselves "The Heavenly Host." Recently, Westerling sent 600 of his men on a raid of West Java's Bandung (TIME, Feb. 6); he boasted that he would conquer all of Indonesia. But last week, Westerling's military future looked...
Died. Lieut. General Raden Soedirman, fortyish, Japanese-trained commander in chief of the Republican Army which spearheaded the Indonesian fight for independence; of tuberculosis; in Magelang, Java...