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BOOK
Title MacArthur's Air Force / Bill Yenne
Author Yenne, Bill
Imprint BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC, 2019

LIBRARY / MAP CALL NUMBER STATUS MESSAGE
 Stadsbibl:Slottet vån 4 Geografi och historia  940.54 MacArthur engelska    CHECK SHELF  ---
Descript 320 s. 0 cm
Note Includes index and bibliographical refrences
The field marshal's Air Force -- Into the crosshairs of calamity -- For whatever came next -- A shoestring Air Force -- Battle line and Port Moresby -- Hitting the ground running -- Closing in on Buna and Gona by land, air, and airlift -- On the rim of the Bismarck Sea -- Fighter boys -- Cartwheel over the Bismarck Rim -- Cartwheel over Rabaul -- The races of aces -- Stepping stones to Hollandia -- Leaping north to Leyte -- Air war over Leyte -- Balikpapan, the Polesti of the Pacific -- The bloody road to Manila -- The superfortress -- Climax in the Southwest Pacific -- The last stepping stones to Japan -- Operation Downfall -- Ultimate downfall -- Americans in Japan -- The Shogun and his Air Force -- Land of morning surprises -- Korean disaster, Korean deliverance -- From a position of strength -- Reversal of fortune -- The final act
"General Douglas MacArthur is one of the towering figures of World War II, and indeed of the twentieth century, but his leadership of the second largest air force in the USAAF is often overlooked. When World War II ended, the three numbered air forces (the Fifth, Thirteenth and Seventh) under his command possessed 4,004 combat aircraft, 433 reconnaissance aircraft, and 922 transports. After being humbled by the Japanese in the Philippines in 1942, MacArthur and his air chief General George Kenney rebuilt the US aerial presence in the Pacific, helping Allied naval and ground forces to push back the Japanese Air Force, re-take the Philippines, and carry the war north towards the Home Islands. Following the end of World War II MacArthur was the highest military and political authority in Japan, and at the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950 he was named as Commander in Chief, United Nations Command. In the ten months of his command his Far East Air Forces increased dramatically and saw the first aerial combat between jet fighters."-- Provided by publisher
Subject MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964 -- Military leadership
MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964.
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 5th
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 13th
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 7th
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 13th.
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 5th.
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 7th.
World War (1939-1945)
1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Area
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American
Command of troops.
Military campaigns.
Military operations, Aerial -- American.
Pacific Area
Militära operationer
Andra världskriget 1939-1945
Stilla havet
Biografi
Classmark 940.5426
Cover title American airpower over the pacific and far east, 1941-51
ISBN/ISSN 9781472833235
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