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Chinese Communists were still entrenched last week along the Great Wall, barring the advance of Central Government troops into Manchuria. U.S. marines stood within earshot of the crump of mortars and the boom of artillery. U.S. warships, under Vice Admiral Daniel E. Barbey, refused to risk a landing of Government troops in Manchuria's Communist-held ports; the Admiral warned both Communists, and Nationalists that Manchuria might be lost in the squabble and emerge as an "independent state" like Outer Mongolia...
...China theater - and found themselves supporting the French restoration. U.S. airmen, marines and naval forces transported and supported their Allies, the Chinese Nationalists, only in areas where there were Japs to be surrendered and disarmed. (At the important port of Chefoo, for example, Vice Admiral Daniel E. Barbey backed away, declined to land because the Communists had al ready disposed of the Japs there...
When Generalissimo Chiang's troops arrived off Yingkow they found a Chinese Communist garrison. U.S. Vice Admiral Daniel E. Barbey, in charge of the transports, and General Tu promptly conferred with the Russians to arrange the transfer or neutralization of the Communists...
...broadcast, Fleet Admiral Nimitz called the current period "the pre-invasion stage." One of his amphibious commanders, Vice Admiral Daniel Barbey, had a sort of timetable: "We can complete plans for a small landing within 30 days; for a larger one, maybe 60 days, and for a really big one in 90 days." How Much Bombing? Most of these statements were the by-product of press conferences...
...battleship" built on the rocks of El Fraile Island, refused to surrender. Warships knocked the twin-gunned turrets out of action, but bombs & shells bounced off the fort's 18-foot-thick topside and the Japs greeted all comers with small-arms fire. Then Vice Admiral Daniel E. Barbey of the Seventh Amphibious Force and Major General William C. Chase of the 38th Division got up the war's oddest naval task force and sent it out to reduce the fort. TIME Correspondent William Gray, who went along reported...