In the meantime, I pinged you on a post containing an abbreviated timeline I created of events pertaining to the U.S. Army Air Corps in the Philippines between Oct 1941 and Dec 8, 1941 here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2824193/posts?posts?page=16#16. Where specific entries I extracted from Gen. Brerenton's diaries significantly disagree with your understanding of events, please address them.
Fso301,
I haven’t forgotten you, I have not had the time I need to pull up detailed sources due to real life commitments.
But in short, the simple fact that a large part of the Far East Air Force was caught on the ground, without fighter cover, and destroyed, hours after Pearl Harbor was known about, is in and of itself an indictment of both Brereton and MacArthur’s command ability.
They are in command and responsible.
You can find a good account of the attack in “Fall of the Philipines” By Louis Morton from the US Army in World War II series, (”The Green Books”) which is the Army’s official history of the War.
It is on pages 79-90.
Hyperlink to the Text:
http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA-P-PI/index.html
Link to the PDF:
http://www.history.army.mil/html/books/005/5-2-1/index.html
The attackers were sighted but word failed to get to Clark, or to the fighter bases in time. That is a command failure, because it is the commander’s responsibility to make sure his forces are ready, including the early warning system.
By the way, Merry Christmas.