DESERTS OF AMERICANS
COMPLETE VICTORY
WASHINGTON, October 22. "H the battle of the Solomons ia measured by the fierce resolution and courage of our men, there can- be but on© outcomecomplete and final victory," the XJnder-Secretary of the Navy, Mr. James V. Forrestal, told a Labour Relations Conference held by the Navy Department. Mr. Forrestal said that the balance of power in the Pacific was a touch-and-go affair, and could shift almost daily. The American forces in the j Solomons were fighting without rest in black, thick jungle, in the blackest kind of night. . "They have been bombed by day and shelled by night," he said. "They j have been attacked from the jungle] both by day and night." Mr. Forrestal, who recently inspected bases in the South-west Pacific, said that the job of supplying the United States troops in the Solomons was one of the most difficult tasks undertaken by any navy in the history of the world. The Americans were working there from improvised bases hewn from the jungles and impassable territory, and the supplies were on a catch-as-catch-can basis. Mr. Forrestal said he the operations in the Pacific had kept Japan from attacking Russia this summer., »
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 100, 24 October 1942, Page 7
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199DESERTS OF AMERICANS Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 100, 24 October 1942, Page 7
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