U.S. Military Exercises
HONOLULU, Oct 3
The biggest combined naval and military operation in the Pacific since the war will be conducted towards the end of October. A United States task force will try to wrest the Hawaiian island of Oahu from an entrenched “agressor” force. One hundred ship.-? and 37,000 men will rendezvous off a beachhead of Oahu some time between October 15 and November 1 At a given signal the invasion, fleet will disgorge 15,000 infantrymen wh-o will try to get ashore under The defensive forces of the island will include 9,000 soldiers and 3.000 cover of Marine fighter squadrons. Navy men.
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Grey River Argus, 5 October 1949, Page 7
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