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...Halsey fleet operation is likely to have a lot of improvisation about it. His directive from Nimitz may require him to strike an island or group of islands and neutralize the air power based there-as last September, when he had his first sea command in more than two years, and Mindanao was the target. That seemed too soft, so he went back and tackled the central Philippines. They, too, seemed soft...
...flyer shot down off Leyte was rescued by guerrillas, and when he returned to the fleet he bore word of how relatively weak the Japanese were in the Visayas. Halsey conferred with Vice Admiral Mitscher, then commanding Task Force 38, and with Nimitz. Soon he was on his way to see MacArthur, who agreed to a new plan of invading the Philippines in October instead of December, and at Leyte instead of Mindanao...
...more steps were taken last week to unravel the Pacific command situation. Army air forces on Okinawa and other Ryukyu bases were transferred from the command of Admiral Nimitz to General MacArthur...
...General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz's Strategic Air Force (Superfortresses from Doolittle's Eighth and LeMay's Twentieth-TIME, July 16) will operate under neither Nimitz nor MacArthur. Its bosses: General "Hap" Arnold and the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington...
More Unraveling? Naturally Admiral Nimitz kept his mighty carrier-based aviation. He also kept all land-based Navy planes and most Marine aviation in the Pacific-perhaps as many as 3,000 planes...