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Baldwin took due and disapproving note of the "arbitrary" geographical division of Pacific command between General MacArthur in Australia and Admiral Nimitz in the southwest Pacific (TIME, Nov. 2). Gentle though they were, Baldwin's understatements helped to needle Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson into declaring last week that the Solomons campaign was jointly planned in the map-walled room where the Combined Chiefs of Staff meet (see cut, p. 67). If so, collaboration in the early stages broke down somewhere between Washington and Guadalcanal. It was also clear that Army-Navy teamwork had improved in the later...
...Returning to Pearl Harbor from Guadalcanal, Admiral Nimitz was confident that the men on the spot "will hold what they have and eventually start rolling northward...
...thread of their strength was to endure. Nobody knew this better than their 55-year-old commander, Major General Alexander Archer Vandegrift. Despite destruction of 42 Japanese planes, without U.S. loss, and damage to enemy ships, he was in a tight spot. Aware of this fact, Admirals Ghormley and Nimitz, this week were conferring "somewhere in the Pacific" with Air Forces General Arnold...
...minute assume," said Nimitz, "that we have the Japanese on the run. . . . Our tactics must be such that our objectives will be gunned, bombed or torpedoed to destruction. This our enemy will understand and respect...
...last giving the air arm a voice in the grand strategy of the war. Neither promotions for top airmen nor the expected naval reorganization ever materialized. Instead Towers got the undefined job of Commander of the Pacific Fleet Air Forces, which put him on the staff of Admiral Chester Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet-an apparently anomalous position since the carriers over which he is supposed to exercise authority operate under orders of task force commanders, usually battleship admirals...