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Baldwin's account suggested that the blame for these and other losses did not belong exclusively to Vice Admiral Robert L. Ghormley, the area commander whom the Navy relieved last fortnight. Baldwin named no names, but he implied that inept, overtimid, task-force commanders may have been at least partly to blame. His major conclusion: "The Solomons have clearly shown deficiencies-which stem from overcaution and the defensive complex-that must be remedied. If mistakes continue, we can defeat ourselves...
Knuckle-Swinger Up. Last week the Navy fixed responsibility. Vice Admiral Robert L. Ghormley was relieved of his command of the entire operation. In his place, as Commander of the South Pacific, Vice Admiral William F. Halsey Jr. went to work. Admiral Halsey, who looks saltier than sodium chloride, is known throughout the Navy as a tough, aggressive, restless man. He led the brilliant attack on the Marshall Islands in January, commanded other hit-&-run raids...
...Solomons campaign one more example of the still-divided U.S. command in the Pacific? (General MacArthur is responsible for attacking Rabaul; Vice Admiral Ghormley for Guadalcanal, 700 miles to the south...
...slender 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...
...Reaching Results. If the Battle of the Solomons is a U.S. victory it will be on Admiral Ghormley's blouse that the medal is pinned-and deservedly. Starting from a base 3,600 miles from home, he had to organize the most difficult kind of amphibious operation, a landing on a hostile shore, in dangerous waters, against an enemy with land-based aircraft...