WHY PACIFIC COMMAND IS DIVIDED
NEW YORK, November 12
The Commander-in-Chief of the United States Navy, Admiral Ernest J. King, speaking in New York, defended the division of command in the Pacific. He: said that Australia and the enemy approaches thereto, including the Netherlands East Indies and the Philippines, constituted a single strategic entity in which land communications were primarily important. The central and northern Pacific constituted a separate area in which the fleet was predominantly important.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 117, 13 November 1942, Page 3
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77WHY PACIFIC COMMAND IS DIVIDED Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 117, 13 November 1942, Page 3
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