Word: rabaul
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...Staff," giving him sole authority over all ground, air and naval forces (including the Australian Navy and some remnants of the Dutch Fleet) in the southwest Pacific. It was on orders from the Combined Chiefs of Staff that MacArthur's bombers timed their attacks on the Japs in Rabaul and the upper Solomons with the Navy's offensive ("a very important mission, and one which was planned and approved by the Combined Chiefs of Staff"). For the campaign in the Solomons, General MacArthur was also ordered to turn his Australian naval forces over to the U.S. Navy...
...action, the Solomons had all been in MacArthur's command, but to make sure that there was no misunderstanding, the line of demarcation was straightened." (The effect of the straightening was to put the area to be invaded solely under Navy command. MacArthur kept the upper Solomons and Rabaul, where the Navy and Army presumably will have to arrange an understanding...
...assignments since August have been the most satisfactory, most successful for the 19th. Many new planes have arrived, and some fresh pilots have replaced battle-weary veterans. A big factor in the Jap failure to recapture Guadalcanal was the 19th's constant hammering of the big base at Rabaul. Lately the 19th, now under the command of young Lieut. Colonel Richard Carmichael (TIME, Oct. 19), pioneered in flying its Fortresses at low levels. Being taught today to younger flyers are the lessons the 19th has learned, not without expense to themselves...
...would logically be an assault in force on Buin, at the southern extremity of Bougainville Island. That is the point from which Jap task forces have hopped for Guadalcanal. On the way Rekata Bay, a Jap naval air base, would have to be eliminated on the flank. After that, Rabaul-the heart of the Japanese system in the lower Pacific...
...MacArthur's enemy, Lieut. General Tomatore Horii, conqueror of Rabaul, who was desperate (he was almost captured fortnight ago in the New Guinea jungle). Now General Horii knew what it was like to strive mightily to reinforce battered troops when they were hemmed in on three sides (last week the fresh Americans took over the fiercest fighting assignments from the jungle-weary Australians). For his striving the Emperor's General lost a cruiser and two destroyers, blown to pieces by U.S. and Australian pilots...