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Mark Wayne Clark, Brehon B. Somer-vell, Joseph W. Stilwell, Joseph T. Mc-Narney, Ira C. Eaker, Carl Spaatz, Millard F. Harmon, Omar Nelson Bradley, Robert L. Eichelberger, George C. Kenney and Jap-imprisoned Jonathan M. Wainwright. Also held up were the promotions of two major generals: Thomas T. Handy and Walter B. Smith...
...Army's plan for higher permanent rank for its top men, some of whom (e.g., Clark, Kenney, Eaker) are still only lieutenant colonels in the regular promotion list, had hit a pesky snag. But Army men hoped that it would disappear in time-perhaps by the time Congress reconvenes...
Lieut. General George C. Kenney, Commander of the Fifth, said that the attack "marks the turning point in the war in the South Pacific." MacArthur, more restrained, said that it broke Rabaul's back...
Fighter airdromes on the Trobriand and Woodlark islands and on the edges of Huon Gulf gave MacArthur and Kenney fighter protection for their bombers on the Rabaul run. The Fifth had already hit the right flank of the divided Japanese air strength at Wewak, where the Japs have lost about 500 planes since mid-August. Next, the Thirteenth Air Force in the Solomons softened the Japs in an aerial battle over Kahili, southeast of Rabaul...
...Test. Wake was a test of seaborne air power in island assault with ample forces. Wewak and Rabaul were tests of land-based air power with concentrated but still insufficient forces. Wryly and eloquently, a correspondent with MacArthur remarked that General Kenney's only reserves were "the planes that came back...