380th

Bomb Group

380th Bomb Group Association
World War II Veterans Group
 

WE WENT TO WAR

PART X:  WHY WE WERE THERE

THE BACKGROUND OF OUR SERVICE, WHY WE WERE IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA:  A REVIEW



References


PART  A:

1.         Craven, Wesley Frank, and Cate, James Lea (Editors), THE ARMY AIR FORCES IN WORLD WAR II, Volume Four: The Pacific:  Guadalcanal to Saipan. August 1942 to July 1944; 1950, University of Chicago Press; pp. 7, et seq.

2.         Kenney, George C., GENERAL KENNEY REPORTS, A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE PACIFIC WAR, Duell, Sloan & Pearce, Publishers, New York, 1949, Chapter VIII, pp. 209-220.

3.                  Livingston, Bob, UNDER THE SOUTHERN CROSS; THE B-24 LIBERATOR IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC, Turner Publishing Co., Paducah, KY, 1998, pp. 59-70. 

4.         Horton, Glenn R., Jr. THE BEST IN THE SOUTHWEST - THE 380TH BOMB GROUP IN WORLD WAR II, Library of Congress Card Number 95-079703, ISBN 0-9645959-0-7. Mosie Publications, Savage, MN, 1995.

  

PART B:

1.                  Allied Air Forces Operations Instructions No 65 and Amendments thereto, 28 August 1944, Southwest Pacific Area.


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