Wiley; Don't have to check any of your post on Google as I've heard it all before over the years from various sources, nearly all of whom were pilots in the same place and time as Bobby.
And every single one of these very brave men with whom I spoke of these times all said very much the same as to what you referred to above!!
It really makes you wonder at times as to how the war in the Pacific was won given the ineptitude of the higher command at times, but what is really upsetting, to me anyway, is wondering just how many lives were lost in actions that really had no effect on the eventual outcome of the war!