DIFFICULT SUPPLY JOBS
TOUGH SOLOMONS PROBLEM.
P.A. Gable.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.
"If the battle in the Solomons is measured by the fierce resolution and courage of our men there can be but one outcome — complete and final victory," declared the Under-Secretary for the Navy, Mr James Forrestal, to the Navy's Labour Relations Conference. He added that the balance of power in the Pacific was a "toueh and go" affair. It could shift almost daily. U.S. forces in the Solomons were fighting ■ without rest in blaok thick, jungle in the blackest kind of night. They had been bombed by day and shelled by night. They had been attacked from the j:u.ngle, both by day and night. Mr Forrestal, who recently inspected south-west Pacific bases, said that the job of supplying United States troops in the Solomons was one of the most difflcult tasks undertaken by any Navy in the history of the world. Americans were working there from improvised bases hewn from the territory's impassable jungles and supplies were on a catch-as-catch-can basis. Mr Forrestal believed that the operation in the Pacific had kept Japan from attacking Russia this summer.
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Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 251, 24 October 1942, Page 5
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189DIFFICULT SUPPLY JOBS Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 251, 24 October 1942, Page 5
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