"old hoodoo" wrote:
Are there any accounts of the activities of
the US ground and air corps activities in this
period re the defense of Java?

AL


Try They Fought With What They Had; it's the story of the USAAF in Java,
Australia, and the Philippines in 1941-42. Check Amazon and see if they have
it (probably used). The more recent Osprey book on P-40 Aces of the Pacific
has some info on the 17th PS (Provisional) which was made up of a number
of Philippine vets who were ordered to Australia in mid-Dec 41 to ferry P-40s
back to Luzon; when the ferry route was cut-they went to Java. Two pilots
made ace, and they had a decent kill/loss ratio in the air. The squadron
destroyed its P-40s and flew on C-47s to Australia on 1 Mar 42.

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