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...flew tall, taut Admiral Ernest King, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet. Up from a post in the South Seas flew stocky, pugnacious Admiral William Halsey, Allied Commander in the South Pacific. At Pearl Harbor, in the chart-cluttered headquarters of white-haired, unhurried Admiral Chester Nimitz, Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, a conference took place...
Next Stage? Poised within striking distance of important Jap bases at three points, Allied forces made preparations this week for the next stage. In the Gilberts it would come when Admiral Chester Nimitz was sure that the Navy had the power for a decisive blow. In New Guinea MacArthur was pointing for Madang...
Between Mountbatten and Nimitz, on what has been the No.1 front since the Pacific war began, General Douglas MacArthur would finish pinching off Rabaul, advance along New Guinea to a position which could threaten the East Indies...
...spearheaded lines on the map stop away short of Tokyo. How would Mountbatten proceed across the part of China which is firmly held by Jap troops? Where would Nimitz head after he had seized the bases on the Jap periphery? How would he destroy a Jap fleet which refused to engage? Where would MacArthur go from the Philippines...
...role obscured. In the west a Briton had emerged as chief of Southeast Asia. In the division of men and materiel large Allied resources would go to Lord Louis Mountbatten for a drive which would overshadow and overlap MacArthur's plan. In the east was Admiral Chester Nimitz assembling strength which would necessarily denude MacArthur of needed ships for any amphibious operations...