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...argument that we've been having for the past few weeks is that Admiral Halsey has to report to General MacArthur for orders, and that General MacArthur is ranking officer over Admiral Halsey. We would like very much for you to straighten us out on that argument. We do know that one has command of the South Pacific and the other has the Southwest Pacific...
Meeting without Sparks. The drive along the New Guinea coast had taken a lot of good staff work. Months before, the South Pacific command of Admiral William "Bull" Halsey had been wiped out by the converging forces of MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz. Army and Navy scuttlebutt had been that sparks would fly when the General and Admiral Nimitz came to ironing out the question of who would do what and who would command what...
Fierce-browed Admiral William Frederick Halsey, one of the U.S. Navy's fightingest admirals was just about out of a job. At his advance headquarters in a Solomons jungle last week, correspondents were called in, given the tip-off that his work in the South Pacific was about over. When "Bull" Halsey, once famed Annapolis fullback (1902-3), took over the South Pacific command in October 1942, the Marines on Guadalcanal were in trouble. Halsey waded right...
With shrewd use of small forces, he outmaneuvered and outfought the Japanese, pushed them back toward Rabaul where they would be crushed under the bombs of MacArthur's Fifth Air Force as well as Halsey's own varied airfleets...
With last month's bypassing of Rabaul and capture of the St. Matthias Islands, Halsey reached the end of his road. Above his area the commands of Nimitz and MacArthur (under both of whom he had worked) had joined. Next job for "Bull" Halsey, one of only three four-star admirals in the Pacific,* is still a layman's guess. A good bet: it will be another fighting job in the Pacific. Headlong Admiral Halsey neither has nor cultivates any genius for riding a desk...