MACARTHUR’S STAFF
PRINCIPAL APPOINTMENTS ANNOUNCED TWO AUSTRALIANS INCLUDED. AND ONE DUTCH OFFICER. (Received This Day, 9.35 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. Two Australian officers and one Dutch officer have been appointed to General MacArthur’s headquarters staff, it was announced yesterday. The principal appointments are:— Chief-of-Staff, Major-General Richard Sutherland; Deputy Chief of Staff, Brigadier-General Richard Marshall; Assistant Chiefs-of-Staff, Colonel Charles Stivers (Personnel), Colonel Charles Willoughby (Intelligence) and Brigadier-General Chamberlain (operations and training).
The Australians appointed are Colonel H. F. Durant and LieutenantColonel Rogers. No deputy Confman-der-in-Chief has been appointed, but it was explained that General Blarney is second in ranking. The key officers on General MacArthur’s new headquarters staff served with him in the Philippines. Today’s communique on air operations is the first to be issued from General MacArthur's headquarters, which will issue all communiques in future.
' JAPANESE SHIP SUNK AND ENEMY SUBMARINE DAMAGED. ACHIEVEMENTS OF AMERICAN UNDERWATER CRAFT. WASHINGTON, April 20. The Navy Department reported that the American submarine commander Grenfell recently sank a 5000-ton vessel in the western Pacific. Later, he sighted a Japanese submarine, at which he fired three torpedoes, severely damaging her. Grenfell and three other officers were decorated with the Navy Cross for sinking six enemy ships in Japanese waters.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 April 1942, Page 3
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