| Below are links to month-by-month
chronologies of the history of the war in the Southwest Pacific
(I will post them as soon as I finish them).
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* The Far East Air Force was redesignated the 5th Air Force on
Thursday, 5 February, 1942
**Much information for above areas taken from USAAF Combat Chronology
Website (now defunct), whose webmaster in turn used as sources:
AIR FORCE COMBAT UNITS OF WORLD WAR II, Office of Air Force History,
Headquarters USAF, 1961, ISBN 0-912799-02-1 ; COMBAT SQUADRONS OF THE AIR
FORCE, WORLD WAR II, Office of Air Force History, Headquarters USAF
1982; THE ARMY AIR FORCES IN WORLD WAR II: COMBAT CHRONOLOGY, 1941-1945
by the Office of Air Force History, Headquarters USAF, 1973; THE MIGHTY EIGHTH
WAR DIARY by Roger A. Freeman, ISBN 1-85409-071-2)