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...Nashville's deck into a landing barge. With him were men who had left Corregidor with him 31 months ago, like his Chief of Staff, Lieut. General Richard K. Sutherland; men who had been sent out later to hib command, like his air chief, Lieut. General George C. Kenney; men who were going back to their homeland, like President Sergio Osmeña of the Philippine Commonwealth. There was-one notable absentee: Manuel Quezon, first President of the Commonwealth, who had died...
General "Hap" Arnold picked George Kenney from behind a desk and sent him to Australia. "Sir, I am your airman here," said brisk, bantam-sized Kenney when he reported for duty...
Lieut. General George C. Kenney's Far Eastern Air Force had stepped up its bombing of air bases and oil supplies in Celebes and Borneo; Major General Willis H. Hale's Seventh Air Force had smashed at the Bonin and Volcano Islands; Chennault had raided Formosa; the southern Palau Islands had been seized by U.S. troops...
...While Kenney's air force in the south pounded the Celebes and Halmahera, oil-rich Balikpapan in Borneo and the supply center of Zamboanga in the southern Philippines, a detached force of Pacific Fleet battleships steamed north to tiny (740 acres) Marcus Island, little more than 1,100 miles southeast of Tokyo. After a full day of bombardment, Marcus' two air strips were out of commission...
Richard Ira Bong came home last spring with 27 enemy planes to his credit, the country's leading ace. Soon cornfed, snub-nosed Dick Bong told home folks at Poplar, Wis. that he was through with combat flying. Lieut. General George Kenney had grounded him "because he didn't want to see me get killed." Major Bong settled down to a quiet life at gunnery school, while in Europe Lieut. Colonel Francis S. Gabreski shot down 28 planes, passing Bong's record. (Later, Gabreski was captured...