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 Mission 27. Departure of FEAF VII. THE RETREAT TO BATAAN 28. Fort McKinley: "Where the hell is all the Staff?" 201 29. Nielson Field: "Amounting to nearly a rout" 206 30. Clark Field: "They closed the gate and threw the key away . . ." 212 31. Nichols Field: "All units seemed pretty much on their own" 216 32. Quezon City: "They chose to stay" 219 33. The Bataan Road: "Trucks were really high-tailing it" 231 34. Christmas at Little Baguio 237 PART TWO Java 1. The Opening Situation 247 2. The 19th Group Moves Up 256 3. ABDACOM: The High Command 265 4. Arrival of the 17th Pursuit Squadron (Provisional) 275 5. The Bombers 291 6. Reinforcements for the 17th Pursuit 314 7. A Decline in Morale 327 8. The 19th of February 347 9. The Robenson Mission 371 10. Closing Missions 392 11. Evacuation: The Ground Echelons 404 12. The Loss of the Langley 415 13. Evacuation: The Air Echelons 422 14. Broome: An End and a Beginning 433 Postscript 445 Appendix 447 Notes 451 List of Sources 481 List of Abbreviations 505 Acknowledgments 507 Index 511 List of Maps Philippine Islands 15 Luzon 21 Location of U. S. Squadrons on Luzon, December 7 69 Pursuit Activity, December 8, 8:00—11:00 a.m. 77 Pursuit Activity, December 8, 11:00 a.m.— 12:40 p.m. 98 Sequence of Japanese Landings on the Island of Luzon, December 1941 131 Legaspi Mission, December 14 157 Central Luzon, roads 189 Southwest Pacific 249 Ferry Route for Pursuit Planes, Australia to Java 283 Java Attack on Darwin, February 19 353 Evacuation of Java 405 Contents

Originally published: 1st ed. Boston : Little, Brown, 1951

Includes bibliographical references (p. [451]-504) and index

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