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Halsey's job was to sit behind a desk in Noumea and direct a campaign while other men fought the battles. Rear Admirals Daniel J. Callaghan and Norman Scott were killed in the crucial series of night actions known as the Battle of Guadalcanal (Nov. 13-15, 1942), which turned the Jap tide from the shores of "Bloody Island." Halsey became a hero and a four-star admiral. He took off the pins with three stars on them, ordered them sent to the widows of Callaghan and Scott. "Tell them," said he, "that it was their husbands' fighting...
Ants in the Plant. Mosquito's first transmitter (Noumea) opened up last February. Built and operated by Major Purnell Gould, peacetime manager of Baltimore's Station WFBR, and his staff of former commercial radiomen, the network at first had tough going. "Juice ants" fancied the insulation around the transmitter wiring and ate it, causing short circuits; microphones had to be blown out twice a day with bellows because fungus sprouted from them. AFRS's biggest single problem was getting receiving sets for its soldier audience. Furthermore, ordinary radio sets were good for only about four months...
Pacific Club Sirs: I read with interest your mention of the Pacific Club in Noumea and of its handsome dividends [TIME, June 19]. ... As soon as the Club's "long bar" and "one-armed ban dits" showed sufficient return, members were informed that their original investments would be refunded with no handsome dividends. Who got those negotiable and liquid dividends...
Shaggy-browed "Bull" Halsey was moving on. In the "Admiral's Cabin," a roomy office on the second floor of a former French barracks in Noumea, there was handshaking and bluff well-wishing. Admiral William F. Halsey had just handed over a command that had once been the toughest in U.S. naval history. The now quiescent South Pacific was going to a top administrative officer-Vice Admiral John Henry Newton, formerly deputy commander of the Pacific Fleet. Said Halsey to his men: ". . . Carry on the smashing South Pacific tradition . . . and may we join up again farther along the road...
...Francisco-Los Angeles to Honolulu-Canton Island-Suva-Noumea-Auckland...