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...only the actual attack in force on the Solomons made these moves effective. That attack was directed by Vice Admiral Robert Lee Ghormley, Commander in the South Pacific with headquarters in New Zealand. Fresh from a two-year tour as naval observer in London, Admiral Ghormley is vaguely known by the public as a figure in top-drawer naval diplomacy, but the Navy regards him as one of the best sea planners who ever came out of Annapolis...
First Blow. Fifty-eight-year-old Admiral Ghormley laid out the whole show. He did it with the approval and the help of his superior, Admiral Chester William Nimitz of Pearl Harbor, command hero of Midway, who had the disposal of the whole Pacific Fleet and was able to dispatch the force that mixed up the Jap in Kiska...
Like every other naval job in his 39-year naval career, Planner Ghormley's program for battle was a model of carefully thought planning, astute execution, use of every tool he had within reach. This time Douglas MacArthur in Australia knew what was afoot, as he did not in the Battle of the Coral Sea; he was enlisted by his opposite number in New Zealand to join in the first fully planned big-scale battle cooperation of U.S. Army and Navy in World...
...obvious: to hamstring the Jap in the employment of the best weapon he had against sea attack. Army bombers raided the old familiar targets at Lae and Salamaua on the northeast coast of New Guinea by day and by night. On Friday, Aug. 7 (Thursday in the U.S.), when Ghormley's force had its first contact with the Japs, the Army was raiding Rabaul in New Britain, probably the Jap's strongest position east of Amboina. And up at the top of the Solomons they came in by night on Buka (see map), opening their bomb gates...
Bull's-Eye. Ghormley's first objective was soon announced. It was Tulagi, one of the best harbors in the Solomons, which the Jap had held since early June for his Indies defensive screen and for a jump-off place if he should decide to head south across the Australian supply line again...