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Since then skip-bombing has become a standard for the Fifth Air Force of Lieut. General George Kenney. And every time it brings in returns, Kenney's airmen thank a cheerful, extroverted major named William G. Benn, of Washington...
Bill Benn was a flying archeologist in Persia in 1938 when he decided to join the Air Forces. He went to Australia as aide to George Kenney, forthwith began his first experiment on skip-bombing when he had heard the R.A.F. was using...
...Port Moresby. The thick red dust of New Guinea blurred its windows, but not the three white stars on its license plate. Spying the stars, half-naked troops, Australian and American, grinned and threw casual salutes. One of their favorite brass hats was home again: Lieut. General George Churchill Kenney, Commanding General of Allied Air Forces, Southwest Pacific Area, and commander, Fifth U.S. Air Force...
...been no picnic. His Australians had had to build steps through the jungles to get cannon over the razorback Owen Stanley Mountains. The rest was not going to be a pushover, said Lieut. General George Kenney, the dynamic airman who shares MacArthur's bungalow, and squat Australian General Sir Thomas Blarney warned of possible hard fighting after Buna fell. General Kenney noted that the Japs still had planes they had not yet used, but Allied air superiority was such that a million pounds of food and ammunition had been dropped to MacArthur's fighters in the mountains...
...Airman Kenney. For this good news the U.S. could give George Kenney and his airmen much credit. Starting with worn-out planes and weary pilots, General Kenney in three months had: 1) all but knocked out what planes the Japs could spare to New Guinea; 2) helped to stop one Jap landing at Milne Bay and knocked out a Jap attempt to reinforce Buna; 3) bombed Jap bases in New Britain and the northern Solomons day after day to help the Marines hold Guadalcanal (see below). For a month George Kenney's pursuit planes had been so free...