NEW FIELD ARMY
AMERICAN FORCES IN SOUTH PACIFIC INCREASE IN STRENGTH. ANNOUNCEMENT BY U.S.A. WAR SECRETARY. LONDON, February 18. The U.S.A. Secretary for War, Mr Stimson, announced that American troops in Australia and New Zealand are to be formed into a new field army, to be known as the Sixth United States Army. This step, he said, had been recommended by General MacArthur, who felt that the American strength in the area now called for the organisation of a field army. Mr Stimson said the army would be under the command of Lieutenant General Walter Krueger. Mr Stimson declined to interpret the significance of the move in relation to Allied plans for an offensive against the Japanese in the Pacific. Mr Stimson also revealed that the anti-submarine campaign of the United States Army Air Force had been extended to include not merely the Atlantic seaboard but all theatres of war, wherever submarines are found.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 February 1943, Page 3
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154NEW FIELD ARMY Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 February 1943, Page 3
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