MacArthur’s Air Force: American Airpower over the Pacific and the Far East, 1941–51

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Bill Yenne

MacArthur’s Air Force

American Airpower over the Pacific and the Far East, 1941–51

Bill Yenne

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English

Osprey
01 October 2019

History; Second World War; Korean War; Air forces & warfare

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, re-take 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 book 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.

By: Bill Yenne
Imprint: Osprey
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm,
Weight: 668g
ISBN: 9781472833235
ISBN 10: 1472833236
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 01 October 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Prologue: MacArthur and Airpower 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 Epilogue: By the Numbers

Bill Yenne is the author of more than three dozen non-fiction books, as well as ten novels. His work has been selected for the Chief of Staff of the Air Force Reading List. He is the recipient of the Air Force Association's Gill Robb Wilson Award for the `most outstanding contribution in the field of arts and letters [as an] author whose works have shaped how thousands of Americans understand and appreciate airpower.' He lives in California, USA.

Reviews for MacArthur’s Air Force: American Airpower over the Pacific and the Far East, 1941–51

`Bill Yenne has given readers another fact-filled, chronological book detailing the Pacific War with MacArthur's Air Force... [This book] is for the reader who wants a broad history filled in with the fun details. Who else but Bill Yenne would quote messages back and forth of American air commanders trying to rein in air ace Richard Bong as he kept wanting to fly? The tongue-in-cheek admonishments of the generals to Bong to be careful in the air are worth the price of this book * Clint Johnson, author of 'Tin Cans & Greyhounds: The Destroyers that Won Two World Wars' *