Pacific Counterblow - Air Force Historical Studies Office

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CONTENTS The South Pacific, Summer I942 ............................ I The iith Group and the Landing in the Solomons .......... 3 T he Jagdstaffel ............................................ 17 T he O ctober Crisis ........................................ 29 The Securing of Guadalcanal .............................. 44 ILLUSTRATIONS Lt Gen. Millard F. Harmon .......................... Frontispiece The Solomons and Related Area............... : ............ 7 H eading A ir H om e ........................................ 14 H enderson Field Area ..................................... 23 Brig. Gen. LaVerne G. Saunders ............................ 33 T h e "Slot" ......... ........... .......................... 39 V eteran .................................................. 46 D irect H it ................................................ 51 V
Lt. Gen. Millard F. Harmon, former Commanding General, Army Air Forces, Pacific Ocean Areas, who has been missing since 26 February 1945 when the aircraft on which he was making a noncombat flight in the POA was lost.
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Page 11 and 12: stepping stones to Australia, units
Page 13 and 14: efore the departure of the Marines
Page 15 and 16: Colonel Saunders, the Forts flew th
Page 17 and 18: Fuel was running low and the presen
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Page 21 and 22: HEADING FOR HOME. After a successfu
Page 23 and 24: At 1745 the three-plane flight atta
Page 25 and 26: Leaving Blaines des Gaiacs on 21 Au
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Page 31 and 32: No Army or Marine aircraft then ext
Page 33 and 34: gether a total of 25 landing craft
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Page 37 and 38: Navy turned back in the Battle of t
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Page 43 and 44: another sustained two flat tires; a
Page 45 and 46: On instructions from Marine headqua
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to Guadalcanal. Command of the 67 t
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SBD's and the B-26's. All five dive
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to clear the way. The 67th had reti
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