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passim; Craven and Cate, AAF in WW II, Vol I : Plans and Early Operations, pp 451-62.
12. Morison, Vol 1V: Coral Sea, Midway and Submarine Actions. pp 104-05, 131:
Prange, Miracle at Midway, p 31 1; Sherman, Combat Command, pp 133-34; Narrative History
and Chronological Order of Events, USS Enterprise (CV-6). May 12, 1938-Sept 25,
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13. Morison, Vol V: The Struggle for Guadalcanal, August 1942-February 1943, pp 16,
68: Sherman, Combat Command, pp 162, 170; John Miller, Jr., Guadalcanal: The First Offensive
[United States Army in World War 11: The War in the Pacific] (Washington, 1949), pp
59-99.
14. Craven and Cate, The AAF in WW II, Vol IV: The Pacific: Guadalcanal to Saipan,
pp 38-44; Miller, Guadalcanal, pp 105-10; Morison, Vol V: The Struggle for GuadalcanaL
pp 68-77.
15. Craven and Cate, AAF in WW II, VolIV: Guadalcanal fo Saipan, pp 38-60; Morison,
Vol V: The Struggle for Guadalcanal, pp 73-125.
16. Morison, Vol V: The Struggle for Guadalcanal, p 11; Miller, Guadalcanal, pp 107-
09; Intvw, Gen William 0. Brice, USMC, 1976, USAFHRC, 57; Commendation, Sept 29,
1942, Col Harold W. Bauer, Personal Papers, Personal Papers Collection, Marine Corps Historical
Center, Washington Navy Yard (MCHC); Narrative History, USS Enterprise, 4; Sherman,
Combaf Command, pp 162-70; Intvw, W. A. NOH, Mar 23, 1943, U.S. Air Force
Historical Research Center, Maxwell AFB, Ala., (USAFHRC); Intvw, Gen Nathan F. Twining,
undated, 10, USAFHRC; Obumiya and Horikoshi, Zero, p 207.
17. Craven and Cate, AAF in WW II, Vol IV: Guadalcanal to Saipan, pp 52-58: Miller,
Guadalcanal, pp 107-10,14649,167-69; Morison, Vol V: The Struggle for Guadalcanal, pp
75-78,87-122, 138-39.
18. Miller, Guadalcanal, p 173; Morisdn, Vol V: The Struggle for Guadalcanal, pp 149-
54,229-63: Frank 0. Hough, The Island War: The United States Marine Corps in the Pacifc
(Philadelphia, 1947), pp 65-66,73-77.
19. Vern Haugland, The AAF Against Japan (New York, 1948). p 155; Douglas Gillison,
Royal Australian Air Force, 1939-1942 (Canberra, 1962), pp 544-47, 583-84, 653; Craven
and Cate, AAF in WW II, Vol IV: Guadalcanal to Saipan, pp 3-10; Samuel Milner, Victory
in Papua, [United States Army in World War 11: The War in the Pacific] (Washington, 1957),
pp 33-55.
20. Craven and Cate, AAF in WW II, Vol IV: Guadalcanal to Saipan, pp 7-8.
21. George C. Kenney, General Kenney Reports: A Personal Memoir of the Pacific War
(New York, 1949), pp 35-95: Chronology, Fifth Air Force, 1942-1944, USAFHRC.
22. Kenney, Reports, pp 35-1 15.
23. Ibid.; Craven and Cate, AAF in WW II, Vol IV Guadalcanal to Saipan, pp 103-06;
see also Gen George C. Kenney, The Saga of Pappy Gunn (New York, 1959). passim.
24. See Kenney Notebooks, July-December 1942, vols I, 11, 111 inter alia, Office of
Air Force History; Kenney, Reports, vol 111, pp 45, 61-134; Richard L. Watson, Jr., The
Fifth Air Force in the Huon Peninsula Campaign (Washington, 1946), pp 8, 19, 200-01,
passim.
25. Watson, Fifth Air Force in Huon Peninsula Campaign, pp 200-01; Kenney, Reports,
pp 110-15, 123, 131; Kenney Notebooks, Aug-Nov 1942, vols I, 11, I11 inter alia, Office of
Air Force History; Milner, Victory in Papua, pp 125-46.
26. Craven and Cate, AAFin WWII, Vol IV: Guadalcanal to Saipan, pp 119-28: Watson,
Fifth Air Force in the Huon Peninsula Campaign, pp 8, 112-13; Robert L. Eichelberger in
collaboration with Milton MacKaye, Our Jungle Road to Tokyo (New York, 1950). pp 23-24,
37-38; Karl C. Dod, The Corps ofEngineers in the War Against Japan [United States Army
in World War 11: The Technical Services[ (Washington, 1966). pp 198, 218-21, 257; Haugland,
AAF Against Japan, p 164; Milner, Victory In Papua, p 378.
27. Kenney Notebooks, Aug 13, 1942, vol I, Office of Air Force History.
28. Kenney Papers, 1942, passim; Vice Adm George Carroll Dyer, The Amphibians
Came to Conquer: The Story ofAdmiralRichmond Kelley Turner, 2 vols (Washington, 1970),
vol I, pp 391-92: “Pappy” (Gregory) Boyington, Baa Baa Black Sheep (New York, 1958), pp
59,216,222; Intvw, Gen George C. Kenney. Aug 10-21, 1974, 10, USAFHRC; Watson, Fifth
Air Force in the Huon Peninsula Campaign, pp 2, 10.
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