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...Japs in the Marianas had been softened up for him by Major General Willis H. Hale's heavy bombers- their nearest bases 1,200 miles away in the captured Marshalls. Other Japs, in the Carolines to the south, had been pre-vented from interfering. Lieut. General George C. Kenney's Fifth Air Force heavies, from the Southwest Pacific, teamed with Hale's Army and Navy Liberators, had seen to that by bombing Paulau, Truk, Nauru among others...
...major general: Lieut. General Brehon Somervell (permanent rank, colonel); Lieut. General Jonathan Wainwright (brigadier general); Lieut. General Joseph Stilwell (brigadier general). To brigadier general: Lieut. General George C. Kenney (lieutenant colonel); Lieut. General Mark Clark (lieutenant colonel); Lieut. General Carl Spaatz (colonel); Lieut. General Omar N. Bradley (lieutenant colonel); Lieut. General Ira C. Eaker (lieutenant colonel...
Anyhow, he was out of combat now. Lieut. General George Kenney had said so. Why? "I guess he didn't want to see me killed...
...Army, he was recalled to head American-Filipino forces in the Far East. He commanded the forces on Bataan until ordered to Australia. Lukewarm toward air power before War II, he changed his mind quick to work hand in glove with his air chief, Lieut. General George C. Kenney, one of the most brilliant developers of air warfare (TIME, Jan. 18, 1943). And some of his campaigns in the South Pacific, a series of victories won with small forces and low casualties, are already regarded as tactical masterpieces...
...differences between the ratios in different theaters show variations in the combat efficiency of the enemy as well as of U.S. air forces. Smart as the operations of General Chennault in China have been, and of General Kenney in New Guinea, their ratios might not have been so favorable had they been fighting the still tougher Luftwaffe in Western Europe...