George C. Kenney
Kenney, George Churchill (1889–1977), a United States air force officer. During World War II he commanded Allied air forces in the Southwest Pacific and in the Philippines. He developed skip-bombing, a method of attacking ships by skipping aerial bombs along the water. This tactic was used with great success in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea (1943). Kenney became a full general in 1945 and was commander of the Strategic Air Command, 1946–48. He retired in 1951.
Kenney was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, the son of United States citizens. He attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology and served in France as an aviator in World War I.