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...news pictures brought a quick and intimate sense of struggle: the grim face of Vice Admiral William F. Halsey, the new commander, surrounded by his staff (see cut); the fuzzy young faces and grizzled old faces of marines in foxholes; the bodies of Japs, looking menacing even in death, on the river banks. Though Guadalcanal was 6,000 miles away, it now seemed as close as the next block...
...battle ever since the Solomons invasion began. Not until last week, almost seven weeks after the Wasp had been sunk by submarines, did it come. A great Jap naval force in two sections, including at least three aircraft carriers, bore down from the northeast. Vice Admiral William Frederick ("Bull") Halsey Jr., the South Pacific's new commander, had his carrier force ready to battle Jap carriers for the third time in six months. Once again the battle was chiefly between planes and ships; no major surface engagement was reported by the Navy...
...Halsey, a fighting man. But the people saw the shift more as evidence of previous bungling than as a hopeful sign...
Knuckle-Swinger Up. Last week the Navy fixed responsibility. Vice Admiral Robert L. Ghormley was relieved of his command of the entire operation. In his place, as Commander of the South Pacific, Vice Admiral William F. Halsey Jr. went to work. Admiral Halsey, who looks saltier than sodium chloride, is known throughout the Navy as a tough, aggressive, restless man. He led the brilliant attack on the Marshall Islands in January, commanded other hit-&-run raids...
...even a knuckle-swinger like Admiral Halsey was helpless to sustain General Vandegrift unless the strategy-makers far behind the lines had received their Pacific estimates and allocated more materials. One air group, which would be just a drop in the barrel in Europe, could have helped win many more skirmishes on Guadalcanal by affording much-needed relief for tired men and worn planes...