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Lucky and Valiant. Around South Pacific bars, MacDonald's O'Bannon became a legend. In June 1943, Admiral Halsey began the drive to knock the Japs out of the rest of the Solomons. The O'Bannon was in the thick of that campaign. She was with the outnumbered cruiser task force which plowed into the dark hole of Kula Gulf to intercept and destroy nine to eleven Jap cruisers and destroyers. That was the night the great cruiser Helena was lost (TIME...
...Admiral Halsey's marines from the Solomons swept around right end to seize two of the St. Matthias Islands, just as General MacArthur's foot cavalry had swept around left end to seize the Admiralties. In the St. Matthias Islands only a small hello was uttered by the veteran marines to a minor unwelcoming committee of Japanese...
Together General MacArthur and Admiral Halsey now had completed the ring around the Japanese in Rabaul and Kavieng. For nearly a year General Mac-Arthur has had "strategic direction" of the double campaign. From now on theirs would be definitely a single operation...
...southwest Pacific flyers under command of General MacArthur and Admiral Halsey were busy as beavers. During the week some 500 tons of bombs were dropped on Rabaul, finally made so untenable that no Jap fighters rose to intercept...
...bill to come would make Admirals Chester W. Nimitz and William F. Halsey Admirals of the Fleet (equals British Admiral of the Fleet...