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...week's beginning, the aerial offensive was in full swing. Lieut. General George C. Kenney's Far Eastern Air Forces were bombing Jap airfields on Luzon, most notably the system of strips and dispersal areas around Clark Field, 50 miles north west of Manila. Army Liberators, Mitchells, Havocs and Warhawks met little opposition in the air. Not since Dec. 28 had the Japs sent up a major intercepting force. Now, relying on ack-ack for defense, they hoarded what planes they could for the crisis they foresaw. The U.S. planes ranged as far as Lingayen Gulf, sinking...
...Shadows Before. Still Kenney's air forces needed more fields from which to fly off these great strikes and the still greater strikes which would be needed when the battle of Luzon was fully joined. And it was essential that existing fields on Mindoro be fully protected against Jap counterattack, whether by land, sea or air. So convoys were formed up at Leyte and dispatched through the Mindanao Sea, with air cover provided by accompanying escort carriers...
...Ships. The Jap did not land his reinforcements until he had paid heavily for the privilege. In spite of weather, Jap smokescreens and Jap fighter protection, land-based fighters and B-25s from Lieut. General George Kenney's air forces struck heavily. One day they sank seven destroyers and three troop transports out of a total of 19 vessels-but not until the men and supplies had been unloaded...
Nothing south of the Philippines would do for the attack: Lieut. General Kenney's airmen based on Morotai had closed those routes. There were only two channels through the Philippines. The Japs bent their strategy to geographic necessity...
...beyond the retirement age (64), he was still learning his art, still finding new plays for his battle-tried team in which Sutherland and the three Ks (Krueger, Kinkaid and Kenney - see below) functioned as smoothly as the Naval Observatory clock in Washington. It was a winning team, and Douglas MacArthur had made...