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...operation in detail, without abolishing the arbitrary geographical line between Admiral Halsey's area, which stops just west of 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...
...this war-the Marine Corps raid on Makin Island, 2,500 miles southwest of Hawaii (TIME, Sept. 7). Navy Crosses went to 15 men, among them Lieut. Colonel James Roosevelt. Back in action with his outfit, he got his medal on Guadalcanal last October from CINCPAC Admiral Chester W. Nimitz...
...said Admiral Nimitz, "this operation epitomizes the complete unity with which all the fighting forces in the Pacific -the Army and Navy, the Marine Corps and Coast Guard-are coordinating their strength and skill against the enemy...
...request of the Navy, to implement naval strategy. They attacked, as the Navy would have them, at low level. The Army raid was announced by the Navy. Army D.F.C.s were pinned on six Army chests at the Army's Hickam Field by the Navy's Nimitz...
...rapidly by the U.S. Air Forces in the Solomons that until this week neither the Army the Navy nor his own Marine Corps knew exactly whether Captain Joe Foss had tallied 22 or 29 of the 450-plus destroyed around Guadalcanal. This week at Pearl Harbor Admiral Nimitz fixed Foss' score at 22 (in six weeks' flying), which made him officially top man among U.S. combat flyers in World...