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...strips like X-Mile Field are one indication of the state of Allied air power in the Southwest Pacific theater. The weight of bombs dropped in a recently stepped-up campaign against the Japanese in the area is another. Last week the heavy bombers of Lieut. General George C. Kenney, Allied air chief in the Southwest Pacific, made a record raid on the Japanese stronghold of Lae, 180 mi. north and across the mountains from Moresby. The record: 36 tons of bombs, or the equivalent of twelve fully loaded Flying Fortresses...
...size of the air force at his disposal is no indication of the size of the task facing cocky, fighting little Lieut. General Kenney. His targets stretch over a curve reaching from Jap-held Timor in The Netherlands Indies to the Solomon Islands. Within this 4,000-mi. arc the Japanese have concentrated more air power and troops than anywhere else in the Far Eastern war zone except in China. They may have an offensive thrust in mind: to clean the Allies out of Australia's outlying islands and launch an invasion of Australia itself. Or they...
Whatever their purpose, it was up to Allied war power to do what it could to stop them-and it was on the record that in his last major engagement (Bismarck Sea), Kenney had used exactly 136 planes...
After this introduction to Four-Star etiquette, Van Atta got another lesson in Lieut. General George Kenney's head quarters in Port Moresby. The reporter was sitting on the floor talking to Kenney when MacArthur entered. Van Atta started to get to his feet, MacArthur told him to stay put. Politely, Van Atta still strove to rise. The General hollered "Sit down," and enforced the order with a whack on the shoulder that crumpled the cor respondent to the floor...
Lieut. General George Kenney, the Southwest Pacific's air commander, announced the loss of his fourth key airman in three months: Major Kenneth Mc-Cullar of Batesville, Miss., partner with the late Major William Benn in developing low-level skip-bombing (TIME, Jan. 18). Major Benn and Brigadier Generals Kenneth Walker and Howard Ramey were lost in action, but Major McCullar's death was due to a freak accident...