What Japanese Commanders Said After Kenney Broke Every Rule of Air Combat

In January 1943, General George Kenney wrote one sentence in his journal after watching Japan's convoy reach its destination unharmed: "We are taking it on the chin."
Six weeks later, Vice Admiral Mikawa wrote back to Tokyo that American air power had dealt "a fatal blow to the South Pacific."
Two men. Two sentences. Six weeks apart.
This is the story of what happened between those two moments — a pilot named William Benn who worked out the mathematics of a new kind of attack and disappeared before it was ever used, a mechanic named Pappy Gunn who rebuilt American bombers from the ground up, and three days in March 1943 that changed how Japan moved ships for the rest of the war.
Not because anyone in Tokyo issued an order.
Because after the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, they simply stopped.
If your father or grandfather served in the Pacific, leave his name in the comments. Those stories deserve to be remembered.

This video uses archival materials and original terminology from the World War II era for historical research and educational purposes only. It is not intended to offend, glorify, or target any individual, group, nation, or organization.

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