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...week's most sensible and concrete points were made by MacArthur's air commander, Lieut. General George C. Kenney, just back in Australia from Washington. General Kenney made a point about supply lines: "When we shoot down a plane, the Jap replaces it in a few days. When he shoots down one of ours, the replacement has to come a long way and it takes time." He also made the point that U.S. and Australian airmen are now greatly outnumbered: "We are forced to shoot down four or five to one to keep the score straight. That...
...MacArthur officers, Lieut. General George C. Kenney and Major General Richard K. Sutherland, had just returned to Australia from staff talks in Washington. The tone of General MacArthur's prayer indicated that he was not to be allowed enough power to drive up through Japan's southwestern bases, to the Philippines and Bataan...
Missing in Action. Brigadier General Howard Knox Ramey, 46, commander of the 5th Air Forces' (MacArthur-Kenney's) 5th Bomber Command; somewhere in the Southwest Pacific...
Last week the Army announced that Ken Walker's successor was also missing in action. Lieut. General George Kenney had sent a hurry call to Hawaii for him when Ken Walker was lost, and Mississippi-born Brigadier General Howard...
...aircraft carriers that will roll off the ways of his Vancouver shipyards at the rate of six a month by the end of 1943. Bearing no gifts, but only urgent business, had come such men as Cordell Hull, Sumner Welles, Lieut. General George C. Kenney, Allied Air Forces Commander in the Southwest Pacific...