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General George C. Kenney's bombers sank five freighters, left two more burning along with a cruiser. Here & there they picked off singletons. In the South China Sea, one of Major General Claire L. Chennault's Liberators sank a light cruiser. A week earlier the same plane had sunk three merchant ships, total 27,000 tons; before that the 18,765-ton Italian liner Conte Verde, which had just been refloated by the Japs at Shanghai...
...been in the Honolulu conferences with President Roosevelt and General MacArthur, he was unofficially nominated as the likeliest commander for naval forces to cover MacArthur's return to the Philippines. The groundwork for this leapfrog move, had already been prepared. Incessant pressure by Lieut. General George C. Kenney's Far Eastern Air Forces, said MacArthur this week, had apparently forced the enemy to withdraw his air forces westward from the Molucca Islands* to bases beyond Allied bomber range...
Land, Sea and Air Trap. Lieut. General George C. Kenney's Fifth Air Force (later combined with the South Pacific's Thirteenth into the Far Eastern Air Force) smashed Jap air power and made the sea lanes impassable for Jap supply ships. PT boats shot up barges which the Japs tried to use as a substitute...
...first time since General MacArthur was evacuated from Mindanao to Australia, U.S. heavy bombers flew over the southern Philippines in force. Davao, principal seaport and military base of the southern Philippines, was attacked for three nights running and on odd nights thereafter by Lieut. General George C. Kenney's Liberators...
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, United Aircraft Corp.'s lanky, balding research engineer, now demonstrating high-altitude flight methods to U.S. airmen in the Pacific, got down from his plane and hobnobbed with Lieut. General George Churchill Kenney, commander of the Far Eastern Air Forces...