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...under General Douglas MacArthur, was aimed at the Japanese positions in northern New Guinea (first Salamaua, then Lae) and at the island gateway between the Pacific proper and its southern satellite, the Coral Sea. The other part, though planned by General MacArthur, was under the immediate command of Admiral Halsey. His Naval, Marine and Army forces aimed at Munda, a Japanese air base and army station on New Georgia Island, some 200 miles northwest of Guadalcanal. On the approach to Munda, the Americans first took the outlying island of Rendova, and positions on New Georgia itself, and on Vangunu Island...
...this offensive need not fail if it stops short of Rabaul. Nor, if the Americans and Australians do take Rabaul itself, need it follow that Truk must be reduced. The great value of the offensive is the wide range of tactical choice given to MacArthur. He and Admiral Halsey may prefer to deal with Rabaul's air fleets in the air-once the Allies were so close, the Japs would have little choice but to spend their planes and pilots. Rather than attempt a prodigious expedition against Truk, the Air Forces and the Navy may prefer to deal with...
General MacArthur and Admiral Halsey met in Australia three months ago, probably agreed then on the part each was to play. According to dispatches from General MacArthur's headquarters, he planned the operation in detail, without abolishing the arbitrary geographical line between Admiral Halsey's area, which stops just west of Guadalcanal, and General MacArthur's, which begins there. All the objectives lay in the MacArthur area; direction, therefore, fell to him. Admiral Halsey was still responsible to Admiral Nimitz and to the Navy Department in Washington. So, presumably, were the naval units which worked with Lieut...
Correspondents at the various headquarters tended to judge these arrangements by the ragged fashion in which news was released. Those with Admiral Halsey complained that both the Navy Department and MacArthur's headquarters were hogging the releases. From MacArthur's headquarters the New York Daily News's shrewd Jack Turcott cabled that the offensive "apparently has revealed a wider differentiation than ever...
...abbreviation for General Douglas MacArthur, Allied Commander in Chief in the Southwest Pacific; Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet; and Admiral William F. Halsey Jr., Commander in the South Pacific...