00000nam a22000004a 4500 UP-8027390931311662623 Buklod 20260316135318.0 m |o d | cr an nnnauaaa 260316s2019 xxk o d eng d 9781472833228 (ebook) Fi-2097eb EBSCO $58.00 DMLF rda eng UG 853 Y46 2019eb Yenne, Bill author. MacArthur’s Air Force American Airpower Over the Pacific and the Far East, 1941–51 Bill Yenne. Oxford Osprey publishing ©2019. [1 online resource] i, 320 pages illustrations. text rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource rdacarrier Chapter 1: Starting Out in the Crosshairs of Calamity -- Chapter 2: Shoestring Air Force -- Chapter 3: Who's in Charge of What? -- Chapter 4: Making Do with Nothing -- Chapter 5: Clinging to New Guinea -- Chapter 6: The Battles of Buna -- Chapter 7: Airpower Over Naval Power -- Chapter 8: The Battle of the Bismarck Sea -- Chapter 9: Japanese Air Superiority Challenged -- Chapter 10: Japanese Air Superiority Met Head-On -- Chapter 11: Allied Air Superiority Achieved -- Chapter 12: Cartwheel Over Rabaul -- Chapter 13: Expanding the Perimeter -- Chapter 14: The Ploesti of the Pacific -- Chapter 15: MacArthur's Return to the Philippines -- Chapter 16: MacArthur's Expanding Air Force -- Chapter 17: Victory in Leyte and Mindoro -- Chapter 18: The Bloody Road to Manila -- Chapter 19: The Superfortress -- Chapter 20: From Borneo to Formosa -- Chapter 21: First Strikes on Japan -- Chapter 23: After the War -- Chapter 24: MacArthur's Air Force in Korea. General Douglas MacArthur ended World War II controlling one of the most powerful air forces in the world. This fascinating history, now available in paperback, traces its development from its origins in the Philippines through to its eventual victory in the skies over Japan and its key role in the Korean War. General Douglas MacArthur is one of the towering figures of World War II, and indeed of the twentieth century, but his leadership of the second largest air force in the USAAF is often overlooked. When World War II ended, the three numbered air forces (the Fifth, Thirteenth, and Seventh) under his command possessed 4,004 combat aircraft, 433 reconnaissance aircraft, and 922 transports. After being humbled by the Japanese in the Philippines in 1942, MacArthur and his air chief General George Kenney rebuilt the US aerial presence in the Pacific, helping Allied naval and ground forces to push back the Japanese Air Force, retake the Philippines, and carry the war north towards the Home Islands. Following the end of World War II, MacArthur was the highest military and political authority in Japan and at the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950 he was named as Commander-in-Chief, United Nations Command. In the ten months of his command, his Far East Air Forces increased dramatically and saw the first aerial combat between jet fighters. Written by award-winning aviation historian Bill Yenne, this engrossing and widely-acclaimed title, now available in paperback, traces the journey of American air forces in the Pacific under General MacArthur's command, from their lowly beginnings to their eventual triumph over Imperial Japan, followed by their entry into the jet age in the skies over Korea. United States Air National Guard History. Remote access thru OpenAthens account https://research.ebsco.com/c/tsnrxa/search/details/jnup5m5ktj?db=nlebk&db=nlabk FI UPD DMLF UG 853 Y46 2019eb Electronic Resource