AMERICAN FORCES
HOLDING VARIOUS ISLAND BASES (Received This Day, 10.15 a.m.) WASHINGTON, October 15. A heavy battle is proceeding in the Guadalcanar area. The American Secretary for War (Mr Stimson) told his Press conference that American Army ground and air forces had recently arrived on Guadalcanar to reinforce the marines and had seized important positions in the Solomons, to which they were holding tenaciously against vigorous Japanese counter-attacks. Mr Stimson also said that substantial Army forces were now in the New Hebrides, the Fijian Islands and at other points where their presence had not been disclosed previously. All these forces were under the command of an Air Force commander, MajorGeneral Millard Harmon, who has his headquarters in New Zealand but spends most of his time at the advanced base in New Caledonia. The Army and Navy forces in this area were fighting in the closest possible co-operation under the unified command of the Navy.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 October 1942, Page 3
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