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Center for Air Force History
Language
English
Pages
532

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Subjects
Aerial operations, American, American Aerial operations, Campaigns, History, United States, United States. Army Air Forces, World War, 1939-1945
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Pacific Area, Pacific Ocean
Times
World War, 1939-1945

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Cover of: They fought with what they had
They fought with what they had: the story of the Army Air Forces in the Southwest Pacific, 1941-1942
1993, Time-Life Books
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They Fought With What They Had: The Story Of The Army Air Forces In The Southwest Pacific, 1941-1942
1992, Center for Air Force History
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They fought with what they had: the story of the Army Air Forces in the Southwest Pacific, 1941-1942
1992, Center for Air Force History
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They fought with what they had: the story of the Army Air Forces in the southwest Pacific, 1941-1942
1982, Zenger Pub. Co.
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THey fought with what they had: the story of the Army Air Forces in the southwest Pacific, 1941-1942.
1951, Little, Brown
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Table of Contents

Foreword v
Introduction by General George C. Kenney, USAF vii
Foreword to the 1951 Edition ix
PART ONE
The Philippines
I. FAR EAST AIR FORCE: BACKGROUND TO HISTORY
1. Pacific Flight 3
2. The Philippine Department 13
3. Inventory: May and June 20
4. Air Forces, USAFFE 32
5. FEAF: October and November 35
II. APPROACH OF WAR: REINFORCEMENT AND RECONNAISSANCE
6. Mid-November 43
7. Reinforcements: November 20 49
8. Reconnaissance: American and Japanese 56
9. December 7: Final Inventory 64
III. ATTACK: DECEMBER 8
10. Iba: The First Phase 73
11. Nichols Field: 8:30 km. 74
12. Clark and Nielsen Fields: 4:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. 79
13. Iba: The Second Phase 93
14. Attack on Clark Field: 12 p.m. 9
IV. THE EFFORT TO REORGANIZE: TWO DAYS OF WAR
15. December 9 110
16. December 10: Vigan 118
17. December 10: The 14th Squadron 124
18. The End of Interception 133
V. INTERLUDE: THE PHILIPPINE SCENE
19. Air Taxi 141
20. Bush League Air Force 147
21. Moonlight Parlor 160
22. Mission to Legaspi 166
23. Episode at Vigan 172
VI. WITHDRAWAL OF FEAF: DECEMBER 24
24. The Airfield at Lubao 177
25. The A-24S Arrive at Last — in Australia 188
26. December 22 : The Long Lingayen Mission
27. Departure of FEAF
VII. THE RETREAT TO BATAAN
28. Fort McKinley: "Where the hell is all the Staff?" 201
29. Nielson Field: "Amounting to nearly a rout" 206
30. Clark Field: "They closed the gate and threw the key away . . ." 212
31. Nichols Field: "All units seemed pretty much on their own" 216
32. Quezon City: "They chose to stay" 219
33. The Bataan Road: "Trucks were really high-tailing it" 231
34. Christmas at Little Baguio 237
PART TWO
Java
1. The Opening Situation 247
2. The 19th Group Moves Up 256
3. ABDACOM: The High Command 265
4. Arrival of the 17th Pursuit Squadron (Provisional) 275
5. The Bombers 291
6. Reinforcements for the 17th Pursuit 314
7. A Decline in Morale 327
8. The 19th of February 347
9. The Robenson Mission 371
10. Closing Missions 392
11. Evacuation: The Ground Echelons 404
12. The Loss of the Langley 415
13. Evacuation: The Air Echelons 422
14. Broome: An End and a Beginning 433
Postscript 445
Appendix 447
Notes 451
List of Sources 481
List of Abbreviations 505
Acknowledgments 507
Index 511
List of Maps
Philippine Islands 15
Luzon 21
Location of U. S. Squadrons on Luzon, December 7 69
Pursuit Activity, December 8, 8:00—11:00 a.m. 77
Pursuit Activity, December 8, 11:00 a.m.— 12:40 p.m. 98
Sequence of Japanese Landings on the Island of Luzon, December 1941 131
Legaspi Mission, December 14 157
Central Luzon, roads 189
Southwest Pacific 249
Ferry Route for Pursuit Planes, Australia to Java 283
Java
Attack on Darwin, February 19 353
Evacuation of Java 405

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D790 .E3 1992

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OL25895800M
Internet Archive
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OCLC/WorldCat
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