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Slight, scarred Lieut. General George C. Kenney, who took over the Southwest Pacific air command in August, had the answer: send them by air. George Kenney scraped together every transport plane he could find, including old, outmoded B18 bombers, early version of four-motored Liberators left over from Java, Lockheed and Douglas planes made in the U.S. for the Indies' K.N.I.L.M. airlines. George Kenney then flew thousands of soldiers to New Guinea. It was the first big airborne troop-transport job undertaken by the U.S. in a theater of operations...
Nominated for the rank of lieutenant general, Major General George Churchill Kenney, commander of the Allied air force in the southwest Pacific...
General Douglas MacArthur got an entirely new top air command last week. His second in command, speechmaking Lieut. General George Howard Brett-an oldtimer of the Air Forces-was replaced by bristly-haired, tiny (5 ft. 6) Major General George C. Kenney...
...recent months many junior air commanders in Australia have been replaced so that their age level has fallen rapidly. General Brett and his three senior officers, all replaced, are aged 56, 52, 53, 58. General Kenney is 53 and his three new senior officers, Brigadier Generals Ennis Whitehead, Kenneth Walker and Emmett O'Donnell, are aged...
...General Kenney is relatively unknown -he is a former commander of the Air Corps Experimental Depot and Engineering School at Wright Field, Ohio, flew in World War I-has yet to prove that he can do what others did not. "Nobody's kidding me about this show," he declared last week...