ACHIEVEMENTS IN PACIFIC

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25564, 17 June 1944, Page 4

ACHIEVEMENTS IN PACIFIC

ADMIRAL HALSEY’S FAREWELL MESSAGE (P.A.) AUCKLAND, June 16. Admiral W. F. Halsey, who is retiring from the South Pacific command, has sent the following farewell message to all ships and stations in the South Pacific area:— , “ Proudly I send this parting ‘ Well done’ to my victorious South Pacific fighting team of all services. You have met, measured, and mowed down the best the enemy had on land, sea, and in the air. You have sent hundreds of Tojo’s ships, thousands of his planes, and tens of thousands of his slippery minions whence they can never again attack our flag, nor the flags of our Allies.

“ You beat the Japanese in the grim victory at Guadalcanal 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 easily to occupy Emirau. And now, carry on the smashing South Pacific tradition under your new commanders, and may we j ( oin up again further along the road to Tokio.”