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...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. General Walter Krueger in the New Guinea landings...
...Australia, 62-year-old Lieut. General Walter Krueger assumed command of the newly created Sixth Army under 63-year-old General Douglas MacArthur. Prussian-born General Krueger, whose passion is military strategy, boosted his reputation in the 1941 maneuvers when his Third Army (whose command he relinquished recently) roundly trounced Lieut. General Ben Lear's Second Army. His chief of staff at that time: Dwight Eisenhower...
...Delhi with China's General Ho Ying-chin. Announcing the Chungking conference, the War Department had said: "The fullest possible coordination [of British and U.S. efforts in Asia] will be assured by subsequent conferences between General MacArthur and General Wavell." Last week Washington announced that General Walter Krueger had arrived in Australia to take command of a newly activated Sixth Army. But the only practical route to China is through Burma. There Wavell's campaign to end Japanese occupation is still on a miniature scale, making almost imperceptible progress...
Confirmed as lieutenant general for war's duration last week was 62-year-old German-born Walter Krueger, who had held that rank on a temporary basis as the tacti cally smart commander of the U.S. Third Army. Meaning of his rank-for-the-duration: he had been assigned to an unspecified command in a war theater...
...conduct the 17 big U.S. symphony orchestras, only one (the Kansas City Philharmonic's Karl Krueger) is U.S.-born. More native talent undoubtedly exists but is not used...