Word: kenney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high-level boners in his story of what happened to his marines in the Pacific. General "Hap" Arnold's yarn-spinning Global Mission was twice too long but important for any student of the war in the air. Blunt, down-to-earth and unghosted was General George Kenney's General Kenney Reports, a day-by-day account of his job and of the air war in the Southwest Pacific. Best of the books on the war at sea were Volume IV (Coral Sea} and Volume V (Guadalcanal) of Harvard Professor Samuel Eliot Morison's massive history...
...leave but has been persuaded to stay on-to finish Bradley's memoirs. Of the host of other U.S. postwar memoirs, few have come into print without a touch of ectoplasmic eloquence. Two recent exceptions to the rule: General Dwight D. Eisenhower's and General George Kenney...
...summary: HARVARD (60) G F P Myers, lf 3 1 7 Briggs 1 1 3 Collias 0 0 0 Judson, rf 2 0 4 Canepa 2 1 5 Bair 1 0 2 Lionette, c 0 0 0 Kenney 0 0 0 Nichols 4 5 13 Lemay, lg 5 3 13 Hansen 1 1 8 Pouill 0 0 0 Urdan rg 5 0 10 Greene 0 0 0 Stonestreet 0 0 0 Totals...
Lieut. General George H. Brett (now retired), who, says George Kenney, didn't even know how many planes he had in his command when Kenney came to succeed...
...Kenney also has some hard things to say about U.S. infantry in New Guinea, and he names units. His regard for MacArthur approaches near-worship, but MacArthur's whole staff is flayed repeatedly. Kenney, who lost his job as chief of the Strategic Air Command last year (he now heads the Air University at Maxwell Field, Ala.), may be too impolitic for peacetime Washington, but as a wartime trouble-shooter he ranks at the top. General Kenney Reports shows...