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...Five hundred big bombers for a starter, with as many more following in quick order, could play havoc with Japanese troop convoys-as a fraction of 500 did in the Strait of Macassar. > Five anti-aircraft regiments-again, one each at the do-or-die points-would give limited, local ground protection from Jap bombers, until more guns and crews arrived. But the only safe anti-aircraft maxim is "all you can get," and the far Pacific could use all the guns the U.S. can produce, man and ship for months to come. Anti-aircraft is second only to planes...
...Third on Dr. van Mook's list is naval reinforcement. The Dutch asked only for light naval craft: destroyers, light cruisers and submarines. Any newsreader could note the effectiveness of the small U.S. Asiatic Fleet (with its supporting aircraft) in blasting Japanese convoys in the Strait of Macassar. He could note, too, the depressing fact that the Jap first approached vital Amboina with a piddling naval escort, got little or no naval opposition. Three cruisers, a dozen destroyers, even one aircraft carrier, would bolster U.S. and Dutch naval strength in the Indies, would help to stop the Jap short...
...island's circumference against about six Japanese divisions. They knew, from bitter acquaintance, the preponder ance of the Japanese Air Force, and that Singapore Island had only four good fields. They knew how tightly packed are the buildings and docks of the Naval Base right across the Strait from Johore, and therefore what squatting ducks of a target they would make. They knew that the island's thirst would have to be slaked from two secondary rain-catching reservoirs-the kind blasted at Hong Kong...
...Navy's effective raiding, shelling and torpedoing in Macassar Strait, the Jap pushed on through the Indies. The U.S. and the Dutch together did not have enough warships, planes or troops to meet the invader on all his fronts...
BATAVIA, N.E.I.--Notherlands Indies fliers said today that they sank what apparently was a Japanese battleship with a direct bomb hit amidship in the first day of the now famous battle of Macassar Strait...