Word: vandegrift
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...only in the realm of supply, but in its counterpart-interdicting the enemy's lines-the U.S. Navy has not given Archer Vandegrift the support he needs. The Japanese have landed troops on Guadalcanal almost at will; they have shelled the U.S. positions from...
...General Vandegrift would probably be the first to understand the Navy's deficiencies in the Solomons campaign. The Navy's local high command entered the struggle with a Midway picture in mind: it expected the Japanese to be drawn into a carrier task-force battle. Instead, the Japanese, who had learned a bitter lesson at Midway, started tactics of infiltration by sea. Only once, on Aug. 24-25, the Japanese seemed to have fallen into the trap. U.S. forces located a Japanese task force, possibly sank the small carrier Ryuzyo, hit several cruisers and a battleship, possibly...
...even a knuckle-swinger like Admiral Halsey was helpless to sustain General Vandegrift unless the strategy-makers far behind the lines had received their Pacific estimates and allocated more materials. One air group, which would be just a drop in the barrel in Europe, could have helped win many more skirmishes on Guadalcanal by affording much-needed relief for tired men and worn planes...
Assistant on His Own. Archer Vandegrift does not fit the picture of a rip-roaring Marine officer. Most of his 33 years of service were spent as a quiet, efficient, unspectacular assistant to other men, an unegoistic alter...
...first and longest-standing boss was fiery, bombastic Smedley D. Butler, famed soldier-orator of the last generation (TIME, June 20, 1927). Vandegrift served with Old Gimlet Eye at Leon and Coyotepe Hill in Nicaragua; landed with him at Veracruz; fought with him in Haiti; helped pacify the Chinese Nationalists in Shanghai and Tientsin, in the late '20s. Through these years he was the apple of Old Gimlet Eye's eye, and earned himself the nickname of Sunny...