ADMIRAL GHORMLEY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 May 1942, Page 3

ADMIRAL GHORMLEY

ARRIVAL IN AUCKLAND. ALLIED NAVAL COMMANDER IN SOUTH PACIFIC. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, May 21. Till recently chief naval observer in London, Vice-Admiral Robert L. Ghormley, United States Navy, has arrived in Auckland. He is an officer who is regarded in United States naval circles as being a strategist of exceptional ability. While in Britain he was intimately associated with the preparation of all joint plans between the Royal Navy and his own service. He entered the United States Naval Academy at Washington in 1902 and graduated four years later. In the succeeding years he passed through the usual ranks and his career contained the normal mixture of sea and shore service. Later he passed through the War College at Newport, Rhode Island. . Vice-Admiral Ghormley’s specialty is war planning, and he has a very considerable reputation in this field of study. For a number of years he held an appointment in the Navy Department, being engaged on staff duties and war planning. Before being sent to London he was assistant to the Chief of Naval Operations.

It was reported from Washington on April 30 that the Senate had confirmed the appointment of Rear-Admiral Ghormley as temporary vice-admiral of the United States Navy in charge of the South Pacific Area Command, which extends round New Zealand.