MacArthur’s Staff
MELBOURNE, April 22. Two Australians and one Dutch officer have been appointed to General MacArthur’s headquarters staff, it was announced yesterday. The principal appointments are:— Chief of Staff: Major-General Richard Sutherland. Deputy-Chief of Staff: BrigadierGeneral Richard Marshall. Assistant-Chiefs of Staff: Colonel Charles Stivers (personnel), Colonel Charles Willoughby (intelligence), Brigadier-General Chamberlain (operations and training). The Australians appointed aro Colonel H. F. Durant and LieutenantColonel Rogers. No- Deputy Com-mander-in-Chief was appointed, but it was explained that General Sir Thomas Blarney was second in ranking. The key officers in General MacArthur’s new headquarters staff served with him in the Philippines. Yesterday's communique on air operations was the first to bo issued from General MacArthur’s headquarters, which will issue all com mimiques in future.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 67, Issue 95, 23 April 1942, Page 5
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