Word: coastal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...damn it, George, you'll kill them all," protested the General. Kenney said he was damned if he would; MacArthur was convinced. The bantam moved in men, ammunition, food, vehicles. MacArthur's coastal campaign...
...complicated deceptive tactics of the coastal campaign he needed more good soldiers than George Kenney and his airmen, and he had them. Most important of all was Dick Sutherland, a lean, bronzed, cool precisionist and a laboratory technician in the science of war. Sutherland knew how to translate MacArthur's sweeping plans into detailed operations schedules. For some of the moves in the campaign they made a six-inch-thick volume. In many an advance they refuted Moltke's dictum that no battle can be fought according to plan after the first few minutes. MacArthur-Sutherland battles were...
...with a Purpose. The coastal campaign began slowly. Fighting at the end of one of the war's longest supply lines, MacArthur was often short of supplies, never (until a few months ago) had all the fighting strength he needed. With the single-minded purpose that meant "the Philippines" to the exclusion of every other war objective, he wheedled and and needled Washington to get what he had to have. Soldiers in other theaters said he had "the worst case of localitis" of any theater commander...
...also got heavy increases in his fighting manpower. By the time he was ready to invade the Philippines, he had already written military history: he had saved Australia, recovered New Guinea; his coastal campaign, fought by a series of leapfrog attacks with gathering momentum and a rare economy of men, had become one of the most successful of the TIME, OCTOBER 30, 1944 The Douglas MacArthur who landed at Leyte last week had written an extraordinary chapter n personal experience as well as in public service. Past 60, with a crack record behind him, he had had to prove himself...
...quick victory into this week's slugging match around Aachen. For one thing, bad weather, as it often had before, tied down the potent hand of Allied air power. But more importantly it was the thinning of the supply stream as the Allied armies moved farther from their coastal bases...