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Merriam Press Military Monograph 400. Ninth Edition (February 2012). The text in this monograph is from a booklet prepared during the war by the Fifth Air Force. It was written by the combat pilots of the Southwest Pacific area who managed to fight-and survive-the best aircraft and pilots that the Japanese Army and Navy Air Forces could throw at them. Their comments were intended to aid the newer pilots just arriving on the scene, so that they would not have to learn from experience-and perhaps save their lives. Twenty-five fighter pilots, including William Giroux, Edwin Doss, Leroy Grosshuesch, Gerald Johnson, Richard Bong, Robert De Haven, Edward Roddy, Charles MacDonald, and Thomas McGuire, provide their rules for dealing with the Japanese in the air and on the ground. Contents: Colonel Earl H. Dunham, Commanding Officer, 8th Fighter Group (P-38); Captain William K. Giroux, 36th Fighter Squadron, 8th Fighter Group (P-38); Captain William A. Gardner, Operations Officer, 8th Fighter Group (P-38); Major Cyril F. Homer, 80th Fighter Squadron, 8th Fighter Group (P-38); Captain Allen E. Hill, 36th Fighter Squadron, 8th Fighter Group (P-38); Colonel Edwin A. Doss, Commanding Officer, 35th Fighter Group (P-47); Major John R. Young, Operations Officer, 35th Fighter Group (P-47); Captain Leroy V. Grosshuesch, 39th Fighter Squadron, 35th Fighter Group (P-47); Captain William H. Strand, 40th Fighter Squadron, 35th Fighter Group (P-47); Major Douglas V. N. Parsons, Deputy Commander, 35th Fighter Group (P-47); Lieutenant Colonel Gerald R. Johnson, Commanding Officer, 49th Fighter Group (P-38); Colonel George A. Walker, former Commanding Officer, 49th Fighter Group (P-38); Major Richard I. Bong, 49th Fighter Group (P-38); Captain Robert M. De Haven, 7th Fighter Squadron, 49th Fighter Group (P-40, P-38); Major Wallace R. Jordan, 9th Fighter Squadron, 49th Fighter Group (P-38); Colonel Gwen G. Atkinson, Commanding Officer, 58th Fighter Group (P-47); Major Edward F. Roddy, Operations Officer, 58th Fighter Group (P-47); Colonel Robert R. Rowland, Commanding Officer, 348th Fighter Group (P-47); Lieutenant Colonel William M. Banks. Deputy Commander, 348th Fighter Group (P-47); Captain Marvin E. Grant, 342nd Fighter Squadron, 348th Fighter Group (P-47); Major William D. Dunham, 460th Fighter Squadron, 348th Fighter Group (P-47); Major Walter G. Benz, Jr., 342nd Fighter Squadron, 348th Fighter Group (P-47); Colonel Charles H. MacDonald, Commanding Officer, 475th Fighter Group (P-38); Major John S. Loisel, Operations Officer, 475th Fighter Group (P-38); Major Thomas B. McGuire, 431st Fighter Squadron, 475th Fighter Group (P-38); Captain Elliot Summer, 432nd Fighter Squadron, 475th Fighter Group (P-38); 17 photos; 9 illustrations.
"Multi-Domain Battle in the Southwest Pacific Theater of World War II" provides a historical account of how US forces used synchronized operations in the air, maritime, information, and land domains to defeat the Japanese Empire. This work offers a historical case that illuminates current thinking about future campaigns in which coordination among all domains will be critical for success.
A fighter pilot who flew 75 combat missions in World War I, George C. Kenney was a charismatic leader who established himself as an innovative advocate of air power. As General MacArthur's air commander in the Southwest Pacific during World War II, Kenney played a pivotal role in the conduct of the war, but until now his performance has remained largely unexplored. Thomas Griffith offers a critical assessment of Kenney's numerous contributions to MacArthur's war efforts. He depicts Kenney as a staunch proponent of airpower's ability to shape the outcome of military engagements and a commander who shared MacArthur's strategic vision. He tells how Kenney played a key role in campaigns from New Guinea to the Philippines; adapted aircraft, pilots, doctrine, and technology to the demands of aerial warfare in the southwest Pacific; and pursued daring strategies that likely would have failed in the European theater. Kenney is shown to have been an operational and organizational innovator who was willing to scrap doctrine when the situation called for ingenuity, such as shifting to low-level attacks for more effective bombing raids. Griffith tells how Kenney established air superiority in every engagement, provided close air support for troops by bombing enemy supply lines, attacked and destroyed Japanese supply ships, and carried out rapid deployment by airlifting troops and supplies. Griffith draws on Kenney's diary and correspondence, the personal papers of other officers, and previously untapped sources to present a comprehensive portrayal of both the officer and the man. He illuminates Kenney's relationship with MacArthur, General "Hap" Arnold, and other field commanders, and closely examines factors in air warfare often neglected in other accounts, such as intelligence, training, and logistical support. MacArthur's Airman is a rich and insightful study that shows how air, ground, and marine efforts were integrated to achieve major strategic objectives. It firmly establishes the importance of MacArthur's campaign in New Guinea and reveals Kenney's instrumental role in turning the tide against the Japanese.
Spain (1936-9), China (1937 onwards), Mongolia (1939), Finland (1939-40) and France (1939-40) were a testing ground for a new approach to air tactics with western democracies and totalitarian states analysing the resulting lessons. Attention in Air Wars 1920-1939: The Development and Evolution of Fighter Tactics is given to the means by which intelligence on aerial tactics was collected and why it was not always fully absorbed, resulting in many nations having to relearn the same lessons at the outset of the Second World War. Finland, during the Winter War, while not involved in Spain or any other air war of the time, better applied the lessons being learned than that of the Soviet Union, which had been directly involved in air wars fought over China, Mongolia and Spain. In the case of Britain, not only were the lessons of Spain ignored, but so too that of its own experimental fighter unit, the AFDE (Air Fighting Development Establishment) that had been formed in 1934 and which was reinforcing the intelligence received from those real air war conflicts.
The World War II fighter-pilot story On the very first day of the invasion of Sicily, three months into his combat career, Allan Knepper flew his P-38 Lightning fighter in a squadron sent out to sweep the island and interdict German ground targets. Retreating German infantry unexpectedly pounded the American flyers. Knepper was one of two shot down; he was never found. Knepper’s story is the story-in-microcosm of thousands of American fighter pilots in World War II. Richardson recounts Knepper’s experiences from training through combat and uses them to discuss the aircraft, tactics and doctrine, training, base life, and aerial combat of the war. This is the intimate account of one pilot at war, but also the anatomy of the fighter-pilot experience in World War II.