[59] Douglas MacArthur.  Reminiscences  (New York:  McGraw Hill, 1964), p. 169.

[60] Ibid.

[61] Ibid., pp. 166-167.

[62] Ibid.

[63] United States, War Dept., "Offensive Operations in the South and Southwest Pacific Areas during 1943" (Washington, D.C.: Joint Chiefs of Staff Directive, 28 March 1943), p. 1.

[64] John Miller, Jr., CARTWHEEL: The Reduction of Rabaul  (Washington, D.C.:  Center of Military History, United States Army, 1995),  p. 19.

[65] Louis Morton, Strategy and Command: The First Two Years  (Washington, D.C.:  Center of Military History, United States Army, 1989), pp. 675-685.

[66] Miller, CARTWHEEL: The Reduction of Rabaul, pp. 26-29.

[67] Ibid., p. 22-29.

[68] Edward J. Drea, New Guinea  (Washington, D.C.:  Center of Military History, United States Army), pp. 8-9.

[69] MacArthur, Reminiscences, pp. 177-178.

[70] George C. Kenney, General Kenney Reports  (New York:  Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1949), pp. 251-253.

[71] Ibid., pp. 270-275.

[72] Ibid.

[73] Steve Birdsall, Flying Buccaneers (Garden City, NY:  Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1977), pp. 87-88.

[74] Drea, New Guinea, p. 10.

[75] Miller, CARTWHEEL: The Reduction of Rabaul, p. 190.

[76] David M. Horner, General Vasey's War  (Carlton, Victoria:  Melbourne University Press, 1992),  pp. 257-258.

[77] Ibid.

[78] Ibid.

[79] Ibid.

[80] Kenney, General Kenney Reports, p. 282.

[81] Reconquest (Melbourne, Australia:  Director General of Public Relations, Australian Military Forces), p. 6.

[82] Kenney, General Kenney Reports, p. 286.

[83] Reconquest, p. 5.

[84] Miller, CARTWHEEL: The Reduction of Rabaul, p. 192.

[85] Ibid.

[86] Kenney, General Kenney Reports, p. 288.