AIR SUPERIORITY 29. Craven and Cate, AAF <strong>in</strong> WW II, Vol IV: Guadalcanal to Saipan, pp 139, 159, 177, 239,241; Vol VI: Men and Planes, pp 83,96-97; Dod, The Corps <strong>of</strong> Eng<strong>in</strong>eers, pp 222; Ltr, Brig Gen Ennis Whitehead to Kenney, Feb 10, 1943, Kenney Notebooks, vol IV, Office <strong>of</strong> <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Force</strong> History. 30. Kenney Notebooks, Aug 11, 1942, Aug 31, 1942, vol I, and May 2, 1943, vol V; all Office <strong>of</strong> <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Force</strong> History; also Ltr, Kenney to Burdette S. Wright, Dec 8, 1942; George Odgers, <strong>Air</strong> War Aga<strong>in</strong>st Japan, 1943-1945 (Canberra, 1957), pp 44-67; Boy<strong>in</strong>gton, Baa Baa Black Sheep, pp 59, 216, 222; Kohn and Harahan, eds, <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Superiority</strong> <strong>in</strong> World War II and Korea, pp 19-20; Chennault, Way <strong>of</strong> a Fighter, pp 21, 113-14; John M. L<strong>in</strong>dley, Carrier Victory; The <strong>Air</strong> War <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> Pacific (New York, 1978). pp 90-91; Gillison, Royal Australian <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Force</strong>, 1939-1942; Watson, Fifth <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Force</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> Huon Pen<strong>in</strong>sula Campaign, p 40. 31. Craven and Cate, AAF <strong>in</strong> WW II, Vol I V Guadalcanal to Saipan, pp 203-80; John Miller, Jr., Cartwheel: The Reduction <strong>of</strong> Rabaul [United States Army <strong>in</strong> World War 11: The War <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> Pacific] (Wash<strong>in</strong>gton, 1959), passim. 32. The First Mar<strong>in</strong>e <strong>Air</strong>craft W<strong>in</strong>g, HQ USMC, Wash<strong>in</strong>gton, DC, Historical Division, Operations Archives, USNHC, p 3; Craven and Cate, AAF <strong>in</strong> WW II, Vol IV: Guadalcanal to Saipan, pp 211-17; Haugland, AAF aga<strong>in</strong>st Japan, p 144; Intvw, Gen Dean C. Stro<strong>the</strong>r, Aug 21-24, 1978, USAFHRC, pp 62-63. 33. Stro<strong>the</strong>r Intvw, 54, 62-63; Okumiya and Horikoshi, Zero, pp 229-30, passim; Intvw, Gen William 0. Brice, USMC, 1976, USAFHRC, p 57; Maj Gen John P. Condon, USMC, Oral History Transcript, Dec 1970, MCHC, pp 34-38; Intvw, Lt Col Danforth P. Miller, Jr, Jun 29, 1975, USAFHRC, p 41; Watson, Fifth <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Force</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> Huon Pen<strong>in</strong>sula Campaign, p 102; Craven and Cate, AAF <strong>in</strong> WW II, Vol IV: Guadalcanal to Saipan. pp 217-19. 34. Information on Operations <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> Solomon Islands from Jul31 to Nov 30, 1942, HQ 11th Bomb Gp, Dec 3, 1942, USAFHRC, p 6; AG 373, Whitehead to Kenney, Jul 18, 1943, vol VI, as well as Kenney Notebooks, Aug 1942-Jul 1943 vols I-VI, <strong>in</strong>ter alia, Office <strong>of</strong> <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Force</strong> History; Craven and Cate, AAF <strong>in</strong> World War II, Vol IV: Guadalcanal to Saipan, pp 205-06, 217-19, 221; Maj John N. Rentz, Mar<strong>in</strong>es <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> Central Solomons (Wash<strong>in</strong>gton, 1952), pp 140-43; Watson, Fifth <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Force</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> Huon Pen<strong>in</strong>sula Campaign, pp 128-29, 167- 68,230. 35. First Mar<strong>in</strong>e <strong>Air</strong> W<strong>in</strong>g, p 4; Stro<strong>the</strong>r Intvw, pp 60-61.75; Dyer, Amphibians, vol I, p 527; Samuel Eliot Morison, History <strong>of</strong> United States Naval Operations <strong>in</strong> World War II, Vol VI: Break<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> Bismarcks Barrier, 22 July 1942-1 May 1944 (Boston, 1950). p 150; Richard G. Hubler and John A. DeChant, Fly<strong>in</strong>g Lea<strong>the</strong>rnecks: The Complete Record <strong>of</strong> Mar<strong>in</strong>e Corps Aviation <strong>in</strong> Action, 1941-1944 (Garden City, NY, 1944), p 2; Craven and Cate, AAF <strong>in</strong> World War II, Vol IV: Guadalcanal to Saipan, pp 222-23, 225-34; Sherman, Combat Command, pp 188-89; Haugland, AAFAga<strong>in</strong>st Japan, p 147. 36. Miller, Cartwheel, pp 175, 179-81, 184; Craven and Cate, AAF <strong>in</strong> WW II, Vol IV: Guadalcanal to Saipan, pp 237-39. 37. Kenney Papers, Apr 11, May 3, June 10 all vol V and Oct 3, 12, 15, 18,23-25.29, vol VII, all 1943, Office <strong>of</strong> <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Force</strong> History; “Neutralization <strong>of</strong> Rabaul: <strong>Air</strong> Evaluation Board,” SWPA, May 10,1946, pp 14,23-25; Kenney, Reports, p 241, Watson, Fifth <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Force</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> Huon Pen<strong>in</strong>sula Campaign, pp 185-86. 38. Craven and Cate, AAF <strong>in</strong> World War II, Vol IV: Guadalcanal to Saipan, pp 251-55; Hough, Island War, p 105; Miller, Cartwheel, pp 235-36.242-43; Morison, Vol VI: Break<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> Bismarcks Barrier, pp 286-87; Okumiya and Horikoshi, Zero, p 215. 39. Morison, Vol VI: Break<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> Bismarcks Barrier, pp 293-320; The Bouga<strong>in</strong>ville Land<strong>in</strong>g and <strong>the</strong> Battle <strong>of</strong> Empress Agusta Bay, 27 October-2 November 1943, Combat Narratives: Solomon Islands Campaign, vol XI1 (Wash<strong>in</strong>gton, 1945). p 46. 40. “Neutralization <strong>of</strong> Rabaul,” pp 25-26,47; Kenney Notebooks Nov, 1-26, 1943, vol VII, Ltr, Kenney to Arnold, Dec 4, 1943; Kenney Notebooks, vol VII, Office <strong>of</strong> <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Force</strong> History; Bouga<strong>in</strong>ville Operation, p 14; Sherman, Combat Command, pp 204-06; E. B. Potter and Chester W. Nimitz, eds, The Great Sea War: The Story <strong>of</strong> Naval Action <strong>in</strong> World War II (Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1960), pp 301-09; Harris G. Warren, The Fifth <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Force</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> Conquest <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Bismarck Archipelago, November 1943 to March 1944 [Army <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Force</strong>s Historical <strong>Studies</strong>] (No. 43, Wash<strong>in</strong>gton, 1949, pp 22-24; Morison, Vol VI: Break<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> 374
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Crabb, Apr 17 and 28, 1970, USAFHRC, p 37; Sherman, Combat Command, p 207; Miller, Cartwheel, pp 269-70; Craven and Cate, AAF <strong>in</strong> WW 11, Vol IV: Guadalcanal to Saipan, pp 350-51; Boy<strong>in</strong>gton, Baa Baa Black Sheep, pp 212-13. 42. “Neutralization <strong>of</strong> Rabaul.” DD 33-35; Craven and Cate, AAF <strong>in</strong> World War II, Vol IV: Guadalcanal to Saipan, pp 352-j3; Robert Sherrod, History <strong>of</strong> Mar<strong>in</strong>e Corps Aviation <strong>in</strong> World War I1 (Wash<strong>in</strong>gton, 1952), pp 193-98. 43. “Neutralization <strong>of</strong> Rabaul,” pp 31,33-35, passim; Sherman, Combat Command, pp 209, 229-31; Kenney Notebooks, Feb 13 and Feb 19, 1944, vol VIII, Office <strong>of</strong> <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Force</strong> History; First Mar<strong>in</strong>e <strong>Air</strong>craft W<strong>in</strong>g, p 6; Ltr, Whitehead to Kenney, Mar 5, 1944, vol VIII, Kenney Notebooks, Office <strong>of</strong> <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Force</strong> History; Potter and Nimitz, The Great Sea War, pp 338-39; Sherrod, History <strong>of</strong> Mar<strong>in</strong>e Corps Aviation, pp 193-206; J. M. S. Ross, The Assault on Rabaul: Operations by <strong>the</strong> Royal New Zealand <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Force</strong>, December 1943-May 1944 (Well<strong>in</strong>gton, New Zealand, 1949), passim; Vice Adm E. P. Forrestal, Admiral Raymond A. SDruance, U.S.N.: A Study <strong>in</strong> Command (Wash<strong>in</strong>gton, 1966), pp .~ 113-14; L<strong>in</strong>dley, Carrier Victory, p 114. 44. “Neutralization <strong>of</strong> Rabaul.” D 47: Intvw. Mai Gen Crabb, D 39; Okumiva and Horikoshi, Zero, pp 280,303-04; Potter and Nimitz, The Great Sea Wa;, p 309. 45. Potter and Nimitz, The Great Sea War, pp 309, 338-39; Sabura Sakai with Mart<strong>in</strong> Caid<strong>in</strong> and Fred Saito, Samurai, pp 25-35,265-95; Intvw, Maj Gen John C. Condon, USMC, 1973, USAFHRC, pp 37,46; Forty-Third Bomb Group Operation <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> New Gu<strong>in</strong>ea Area, Jan 26, 1943, USAFHRC; Okumiya and Horikoshi, Zero, p 215; Sherman, Combat Command, p 218. 46. Craven and Cate, AAF <strong>in</strong> WW 11, Vol IV: Guadalcanal to Saipan, p 168; Ltr, Whitehead to Kenney, May 29, 1943, vol V, Kenney Notebooks, Office <strong>of</strong> <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Force</strong> History. 47. Kenney, Reports, pp 251-71; Watson, Fifth <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Force</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> Huon Pen<strong>in</strong>sula Campaign, pp 188-92; Craven and Cate, AAF <strong>in</strong> WW 11, Vol IV Guadalcanal to Saipan, pp 175-76. 48. Watson, Fifth <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Force</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> Huon Pen<strong>in</strong>sula Campaign, pp 101-96. 49. 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INDEX Nile River Israeli air attack
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INDEX Warfare: 180 Solomon Islands.
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INDEX See also Air superiority. air
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INDEX 395, 408 Western Desert Air F