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...Admiral Nimitz and Pony...
Meeting without Sparks. The drive along the New Guinea coast had taken a lot of good staff work. Months before, the South Pacific command of Admiral William "Bull" Halsey had been wiped out by the converging forces of MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz. Army and Navy scuttlebutt had been that sparks would fly when the General and Admiral Nimitz came to ironing out the question of who would do what and who would command what...
...scuttlebutt had been wrong. The commands got closely together on plans last February when MacArthur's top staffers, headed by his Chief, self-effacing Lieut. General Richard K. Sutherland, went north to Pearl Harbor to meet with the Navy people. Late in March, frosty-haired Chester Nimitz went down to New Guinea for a huddle with MacArthur...
...also the first big-scale merging of MacArthur's forces with those of Admiral Chester Nimitz. Admiral Nimitz issued a separate communiqué from Pearl Harbor saying that his cruisers, aircraft carriers and destroyers shelled and bombed the three bases before MacArthur's troops waded ashore...
Next Stop. Where the Navy will next strike in force, how it will utilize the 16-20 Allied divisions now under Douglas MacArthur's command, plus unpublished others under Nimitz' command, are still questions for the Jap to answer. But that the next great strike will be more spectacular and far-reaching than any yet made, he can be pretty sure...