AMERICAN ADMIRAL'S FRANK ADMISSIONS
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Received Thursday, 7 p.m. LONDON, July 31. The American Admiral, William P. Halsey,. writiug in the Saturday Evening Post, says British naval units were assigned unimportant objectives in the tiftal phase of the P&Ciflc War to forestail any postwar claiiii that Britain had partieipated in the final hlow against the Japanese fieet. Degdribing the carrier strikes in July, 1945, agaiPSt the Japanese naval base of Kure, Admiral Halsey said: "At Rear- Admiral Carney's (bhief of .staif to Halsey) insisteace I assigned the British the alternative target of Osaka but none of prime lmportance. i.uated. to admit tne political factor into . the military eqiiation — my respect for ViceAdmiral Sir Berhard RaWlings, and his fine men * of the British Pacific 'Fleet, made me hfite it doubly-^but Rear-Admiral Carney forced me to realise that statesmen's objectives sometimes differ widely from combat objectives. and that an exclusively American attack was in America's be'st interestS. " s
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Chronicle (Levin), 1 August 1947, Page 5
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