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Meeting without Sparks. The drive along the New Guinea coast had taken a lot of good staff work. Months before, the South Pacific command of Admiral William "Bull" Halsey had been wiped out by the converging forces of MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz. Army and Navy scuttlebutt had been that sparks would fly when the General and Admiral Nimitz came to ironing out the question of who would do what and who would command what...
...scuttlebutt had been wrong. The commands got closely together on plans last February when MacArthur's top staffers, headed by his Chief, self-effacing Lieut. General Richard K. Sutherland, went north to Pearl Harbor to meet with the Navy people. Late in March, frosty-haired Chester Nimitz went down to New Guinea for a huddle with MacArthur...
Result of these conferences was that MacArthur got all the Navy help he needed for the Hollandia assault, that stories of bickering between Army and Navy began to fade, even from the scuttlebutt...
Since it is as yet unofficial, may we offer our unofficial CONGRATULATIONS to Lieutenant-Commander W. J. Salmon. While confirmation by Dupers' semimonthly in still forthcoming, the info's appearance in the Army-Navy Register definitely takes it out of the scuttlebutt class...
...feature appearing several months ago in the Harvard Scuttlebutt, Captain Barker was described as, "a Navy man's Navy man." His modest and direct manner would hardly indicate that he is the holder of the Navy Cross, which he earned when in the position of Executive and Navigation officer of the destroyer "Nicholson," the first destroyer to be sent by the United States to the Allied Naval forces...