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They Fought With What They Had: The Story Of The Army Air Forces In The Southwest Pacific, 1941-1942

1992 reprint of 1951 book. 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 Missio

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