U.S. TROOPS IN AUSTRALIA
VANGUARD OF EXPEDITIONARY FORCE. WASHINGTON, March 15. Relative optimism prevailing in Washington regarding the Pacific situation is based on two factors: the arrival of American troops in Australia and the supply of American fighter aircraft there. It was admitted that the American t roops in Australia number only a few thousand, but they are the vanguard of a great expeditionary force being sent to Australia. Apart from the moral weight of visible American support to the threatened Australians, it is understood that the American soldiers there include the best-trained and best-equipped troops of the entire United States Army. More important as an immediate factor in the military situation is the arrival of American fighter aeroplanes in Australia. If they are present in sufficient force to protect the Flying Fortress bombers’ operations, the outcome of the Battle for Australia should be far different than of that for .Java, where the Flying Fortresses were not protected by fighters and were forced to withdraw.
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Kaikoura Star, Volume LXII, Issue 22, 19 March 1942, Page 3
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