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MacArthur liked Kenney's drive and cocksureness, was soon calling him "George." Kenney, an airman's airman who was getting his first chance to prove it, liked MacArthur, especially when the General turned him loose to run his own air show without interference from groundlings. Like most ground generals of his day, Douglas MacArthur was not notably appreciative of the potentialities of air power. But he had flexibility of mind, and he learned...
...Kenney fitted his new team swiftly into MacArthur's strategic plans. His first achievement was to fly a regiment of U.S. troops from Australia to Port Moresby, when the Japs were within 28 miles of pushing the Allies out of New Guinea. These troops helped the Australians to drive the enemy back across the Owen Stanleys. Then Kenney told the Chief he could fly soldiers in greater numbers across the mountains to Buna and Gona, land them there on strips cut out of the bristling kunai grass...
...damn it, George, you'll kill them all," protested the General. Kenney said he was damned if he would; MacArthur was convinced. The bantam moved in men, ammunition, food, vehicles. MacArthur's coastal campaign...
West along the Coast. Kenney's combat airmen grew at their jobs. Their greatest victory was the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, where they sank every one of 2 2 ships in a Jap convoy headed south to reinforce the dug-in forces in the bitter fighting around Buna and Gona. In this technique Douglas MacArthur recognized one of the oldest principles of war-isolation of the battlefield-achieved with war's newest weapon. It was final proof that if he could control the sea north of New Guinea with air power and the help...
...complicated deceptive tactics of the coastal campaign he needed more good soldiers than George Kenney and his airmen, and he had them. Most important of all was Dick Sutherland, a lean, bronzed, cool precisionist and a laboratory technician in the science of war. Sutherland knew how to translate MacArthur's sweeping plans into detailed operations schedules. For some of the moves in the campaign they made a six-inch-thick volume. In many an advance they refuted Moltke's dictum that no battle can be fought according to plan after the first few minutes. MacArthur-Sutherland battles were...