Apparently the description in Bloody Shambles of MacArthur's extraction from
Del Monte, as well as the description of the B-17/B-25 episode is lifted from
John Toland's But Not in Shame.
I've been told that the BS author's real interest was BCE stuff and they didn't
really give much attention to the US side.
At least they're not as bad as Costello (The Pacific War) in which he mentions
MacA's B-17 flight from Mindanao to Darwin took five hours, and that at Darwin
MacA boarded a train for the remainder of his journey.
Are there no reliable books covering this part of the war?


Chris Mark