They Fought With What They Had
Subtitle: The Story Of The Army Air Forces In The Southwest Pacific, 1941-1942
Publisher: Center for Air Force History
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Washington, D.C., USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 532
Table of contents: title: Foreword v; title: Introduction by General George C. Kenney, USAF vii; title: Foreword to the 1951 Edition ix; title: PART ONE; title: The Philippines; title: I. FAR EAST AIR FORCE: BACKGROUND TO HISTORY; title: 1. Pacific Flight 3; title: 2. The Philippine Department 13; title: 3. Inventory: May and June 20; title: 4. Air Forces, USAFFE 32; title: 5. FEAF: October and November 35; title: II. APPROACH OF WAR: REINFORCEMENT AND RECONNAISSANCE; title: 6. Mid-November 43; title: 7. Reinforcements: November 20 49; title: 8. Reconnaissance: American and Japanese 56; title: 9. December 7: Final Inventory 64; title: III. ATTACK: DECEMBER 8; title: 10. Iba: The First Phase 73; title: 11. Nichols Field: 8:30 km. 74; title: 12. Clark and Nielsen Fields: 4:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. 79; title: 13. Iba: The Second Phase 93; title: 14. Attack on Clark Field: 12 p.m. 9; title: IV. THE EFFORT TO REORGANIZE: TWO DAYS OF WAR; title: 15. December 9 110; title: 16. December 10: Vigan 118; title: 17. December 10: The 14th Squadron 124; title: 18. The End of Interception 133; title: V. INTERLUDE: THE PHILIPPINE SCENE; title: 19. Air Taxi 141; title: 20. Bush League Air Force 147; title: 21. Moonlight Parlor 160; title: 22. Mission to Legaspi 166; title: 23. Episode at Vigan 172; title: VI. WITHDRAWAL OF FEAF: DECEMBER 24; title: 24. The Airfield at Lubao 177; title: 25. The A-24S Arrive at Last — in Australia 188; title: 26. December 22 : The Long Lingayen Mission; title: 27. Departure of FEAF; title: VII. THE RETREAT TO BATAAN; title: 28. Fort McKinley: "Where the hell is all the Staff?" 201; title: 29. Nielson Field: "Amounting to nearly a rout" 206; title: 30. Clark Field: "They closed the gate and threw the key away . . ." 212; title: 31. Nichols Field: "All units seemed pretty much on their own" 216; title: 32. Quezon City: "They chose to stay" 219; title: 33. The Bataan Road: "Trucks were really high-tailing it" 231; title: 34. Christmas at Little Baguio 237; title: PART TWO; title: Java; title: 1. The Opening Situation 247; title: 2. The 19th Group Moves Up 256; title: 3. ABDACOM: The High Command 265; title: 4. Arrival of the 17th Pursuit Squadron (Provisional) 275; title: 5. The Bombers 291; title: 6. Reinforcements for the 17th Pursuit 314; title: 7. A Decline in Morale 327; title: 8. The 19th of February 347; title: 9. The Robenson Mission 371; title: 10. Closing Missions 392; title: 11. Evacuation: The Ground Echelons 404; title: 12. The Loss of the Langley 415; title: 13. Evacuation: The Air Echelons 422; title: 14. Broome: An End and a Beginning 433; title: Postscript 445; title: Appendix 447; title: Notes 451; title: List of Sources 481; title: List of Abbreviations 505; title: Acknowledgments 507; title: Index 511; title: List of Maps; title: Philippine Islands 15; title: Luzon 21; title: Location of U. S. Squadrons on Luzon, December 7 69; title: Pursuit Activity, December 8, 8:00—11:00 a.m. 77; title: Pursuit Activity, December 8, 11:00 a.m.— 12:40 p.m. 98; title: Sequence of Japanese Landings on the Island of Luzon, December 1941 131; title: Legaspi Mission, December 14 157; title: Central Luzon, roads 189; title: Southwest Pacific 249; title: Ferry Route for Pursuit Planes, Australia to Java 283; title: Java; title: Attack on Darwin, February 19 353; title: Evacuation of Java 405