ABSTRACT
When General Douglas MacArthur, the US Supreme Commander of the South Pacific Area, heard about Admiral Louis Mountbatten’s appointment as Supreme Commander, South-East Asia, at the end of August 1943, he urged Air Vice-Marshal A. V. Goddard: ‘Tell him that he will need more Air. And when you have told him that tell him again from me that he will need more air.’ Here he thumped the table and almost shouted: ‘And when you have told him that for the second time, tell him from me for the third time that he will need still MORE AIR.’1
