title: We Shall Return!: Macarthur's Commanders and the Defeat of Japan, 1942-1945
author: William M. Leary
description: General MacArthur frequently surrounded himself with bland and often inept subordinates who would not threaten his place in the national limelight. In this book, eight military historians seek overdue justice for the most competent of his senior commanders. Individual chapters are devoted to Generals Thomas A. Blamey, Walter Krueger, George C. Kenney, Robert L. Eichelberger, Ennis C. Whitehead, and Admirals Thomas C. Kinkaid and Daniel D. Barbey. The chapters vary in writing style, but all are precise and vivid portrayals of "the forgotten commanders of World War II." A most useful additon to the literature on the war. Raymond L. Puffer, U.S. Air Force History Prog., Los Angeles<br />Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: Contents
  Maps
  Airpower and the Science and Art of War (by Douglas MacArthur)
  Introduction: What Was MacArthur’s Air Force?
  Prologue: MacArthur and Airpower
  1   The Field Marshal’s Air Force
  2   Into the Crosshairs of Calamity
  3   For Whatever Came Next
  4   A Shoestring Air Force
  5   Battle Line at Port Moresby
  6   Hitting the Ground Running
  7   Closing in on Buna and Gona by Land, Air, and Airlift
  8   On the Rim of the Bismarck Sea
  9   Fighter Boys
  10 Cartwheel over the Bismarck Rim
  11 Cartwheel over Rabaul
  12 The Race of Aces
  13 Stepping Stones to Hollandia
  14 Leaping North to Leyte
  15 Air War over Leyte
  16 Balikpapan, the Ploesti of the Pacific
  17 The Bloody Road to Manila
  18 The Superfortress
  19 Climax in the Southwest Pacific
  20 The Last Stepping Stones to Japan
  21 Operation Downfall
  22 Ultimate Downfall
  
  23 Americans in Japan
  24 The Shogun and his Air Force
  25 Land of Morning Surprises
  26 Korean Disaster, Korean Deliverance
  27 From a Position of Strength
  28 Reversal of Fortune
  29 