The outstanding military lesson of this campaign was the continuous, calculated application of air power . . . employed in the most intimate tactical and logistical connection with ground troops.
This summary by General Douglas MacArthur of the successful Papuan campaign last week won the Army's only four-star field commander editorial plaudits as a new and forceful advocate of air power. But it made many an airman sad.
They were not sad because General MacArthur, not always an enthusiast for air operations, had recognized and proved air power as an adjunct of vast potency to the ground and naval forces. The...
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