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...invasion of Bougainville by the U.S. Navy and Marines under Admiral William F. Halsey and Lieut. General Alexander Archer Vandegrift was a big step forward (see map). It represented an advance of 200 miles from the nearest big Allied establishment at Munda. It bypassed important Japanese positions at Buin on the southernmost tip of Bougainville, and in the Shortland Islands, 30 miles south of Buin. In those positions there were estimated to be at least 20,000 Japanese. But the real importances of the Bougainville blow were two: 1) it was a necessary preliminary to a necessity-the taking...
...beautiful. I very much like the look of it," said Lieut. General Alexander Archer Vandegrift, who just one year ago had led the first American attack against the Jap-held Solomon Islands. Now, back in the South Pacific, commanding the newly formed I Marine Amphibious Corps, he was making a shrewd observation on the success of the combined Army-Marine-Navy operations against Munda, once the strongest Jap base in the central Solo mons...
Outlook. Since General Vandegrift's Marines made their frontal assault on Guadalcanal, the U.S. has learned much about island warfare. The new tactics are to surround the Jap bases in overwhelming force and in combined operation to squeeze the life out of them. Though the capture of Munda was somewhat behind schedule, the Japs were left no secondary retreats, would soon be cleaned up. Gen eral Vandegrift, with his spearhead of Amphibious Marines, looked forward to future operations conducted by "all of us, a highly cooperative team...
...Other divisions, other commanders may have earned equal repute. But in public fame the 1st Infantry Division has only one U.S. rival: the 1st Marine Division under Lieut. General Alexander Archer Vandegrift, conqueror of Guadalcanal (TIME, Nov. 2), who last week became the commander of the First Marine Amphibious Corps...
...book (They Call It Pacific). Ahead was a projected itinerary that most reporters dream about. Lee hopes some day to roll into Nanking with Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, into Manila with General Douglas MacArthur, and down the main street of Tokyo with Admiral Halsey and his sailors, Major General Vandegrift and his marines, under a blanket of U.S. planes "so thick that they hide the rising...