PROUD LEADER
HALSEY'S MESSAGE
SOUTH PACIFIC TEAM
The following farewell message has been sent to all ships and stations in the South Pacific area by Admiral W. F. Halsey, who is being succeeded as Commander-in-Chief in the area by Vice-Admiral John H. Newton, and is to take up an undisclosed appointment: —■
"Proudly I send this parting '.Well done !' to my victorious all services South Pacific fighting team. You have met, measured, and mowed down the best the enemy had on land and sea and in the air. _ You have sent hundreds of Tojo's ships, thousands of his/ planes, tens of thousands of his slippery _ minions whence they can never again attack our flag nor the flags of our Allies. You beat the Jap in the grim victory at Guadalcanar; you drove him back and hunted him out; you broke his offensive spirit in those smashing Bougainville-Rabaul blows at his ships and planes and troops in November, 1943; and you have smeared him and rolled over him to easily occupy Emirau. And now, carry on the smashing South Pacific tradition under your new commanders, and may we join up again farther along the road to Tokyo.— Halsey."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 141, 16 June 1944, Page 4
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