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ix ILLUSTRATIONS Spence Johnson on board USAT Republic 33 Bryce Wilhite and Mel Price at Amberley Field 43 Wallace MacLean and Bob McMahon at Amberley Field 43 First P-40E off the cargo ship Admiral Halstead 45 Capt. Charles A. “Bud” Sprague 51 Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell arrives at Batavia 54 CW-21Bs of the Netherlands East Indies Air Force 97 USS Langley at Darwin about February 11, 1942 102 B-24A at Amberley Field 106 Mitsubishi G4M1 “Bettys” of Kanoya Kokutai 117 Mitsubishi A6M2 Zeros of 3rd Kokutai 118 Abandoned P-40Es of the 20th Pursuit at Denpasar 138 Floyd Pell as a flying cadet 153 P-40Es of the 3rd Pursuit Squadron (Provisional) at Waingapoe 164 Pilots of the 3rd Pursuit Squadron (Provisional) on Timor 168 Parker Gies at Amberley Field, February–March 1942 176 P-40Es of the 13th Pursuit at Richmond Field, Sydney 177 P-40Es ready for takeoff at Ngoro Field, February 1942 181 Joe Kruzel, flanked by his crew chief and armorer, Ngoro Field 182 Robert J. “Blackie” Buel at Ascot Race Track, Brisbane 189 Kenneth Koebel’s No. 196 and other P-40Es 193 American cargo vessel Sea Witch 199 Maj. Gen. Lewis H. Brereton 201 George Weller with Maj. Gen. L. H. van Oyen 202 A P-40E during the attack on Darwin harbor 233 x Illustrations and Maps P-40E No. 28 of Maj. Floyd Pell after he was shot down 236 Burned remains of a P-40E following the attack on Darwin 239 Quanah “Chief” Fields 243 Remains of Bill Walker’s P-40E at Darwin 244 A P-40E coming in to land at Ngoro Field 259 Jim Morehead, Roger Williams, Ben Irvin, and Frank Adkins 265 Gerald “Bo” McCallum at Ngoro Field 271 Capt. Grant Mahony 274 Far East Air Force evacuees boarding the Abbekerk 280 Dutch freighter Abbekerk at Fremantle 284 Gerry Dix on the deck of the USAT President Polk 293 Crew members of USS Whipple watch USS Edsall 294 Jack Dale at Magoewo Airfield, Jogjakarta 317 B-17Es lined up at Broome Airfield, March 2, 1942 323 Captured P-40E off the Sea Witch 326 Spence Johnson and Paul Gambonini 341 35th Pursuit Group pilots at Port Moresby, June 1942 342 Jesse Hague at Mount Gambier, Australia 343 The author at Blimbing, East Java, July 6, 1983 345 MAPS Central ABDA Area and the Philippines, 1941–42 15 Australia 69 Netherlands Indies, 1942 77 Ngoro (Djombang South) Airfield, January 1942 92 Java and Bali, January 1942 95 Darwin Area, February 1942 197 Locations of Downed P-40s at Darwin, February 19, 1942 255 ...

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