General Kenney reports; a personal history of the Pacific War
The commanding general of the Allied Air Forces of the Southwest Pacific wrote a personal report, using as his framework the diary he kept throughout the war years. General Kenney was probably the most popular commander of American forces during World War Il, and readers will understand why his leadership and humanity inspired such courage and loyalty among the fliers of the Fifth and Thirteenth Air Forces. A daring, gifted, remarkably successful military leader, General Kenney pioneered the tactics and strategy of a new kind of warfare in a dozen brilliant ways, perfecting the dangerous skills of skip-bombing, low-altitude strafing, and parafrag bombing. He improvised breathtaking feats of airborne war and executed them flawlessly. Enormously readable and unmistakably authentic, his story began in the dark days of July 1942 when the Japanese were at Australia's threshold. Step by step, island by island, across the incredible distances of the Pacific, they were pushed back, though they usually had more men and planes and guns, and always had a shorter lifeline, than the forces under MacArthur.--From publisher description
Personal Narrative
xiv, 594 pages maps 22 cm
1227801
Assignment to the Pacific, July 1942
With MacArthur in Australia, August 942
New Guinea, August-September, 1942
The Buna Campaign: I, September-October,1942
The Buna Campaign: II, November-December,1942
"Our losses were light", January-February,1943
The battle of the Bismarck Sea, March,1943
First trip to Washington, March1943
Slugging match: Dobodura, April-May,1943
Air supremacy: Marilinan and Wewak, June-August,1943
Nadzab and Lae, September,1943
Markham Valley, September-October,1943
Taking out Rabaul, October-November,1943
Cape Gloucester, December,1943
Second trip to Washington, January,1944
Los Negros, February,1944
The Hollandia Operation, March-April,1944
Hollandia to Noemfoor, May-June,1944
Sansapor and Morotai, July-August,1944
Balikpapan, September-October,1944
The Battle for Leyte Gulf, October,1944
The Philippines: I. Leyte, November-December,1944
The Philippines: II. Mindoro, December,1944
The Philippines:III. Lingayen to Manila, January-February,1945
Third trip to Washington, March,1945
Okinawa and the Kyushu Plan, May-July,1945
The Japanese surrender, August-September,1945