Coast Watchers' Admirer
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Dies in US
One day after the Coast Catchers’ memorial lighthouse as unveiled in Madang, Fleet dmiral William (“Bull”) 'alsey, one of Ferdinand orce’s most highly placed imirers, died in the United tates, aged 76.
“The Coast Watchers saved ■uadalcanal,” he said on one icasion, “and Guadalcanal saved ie Pacific.”
Admiral Halsey was engaging ip naval forces off the Marshall nd the Gilbert Islands less than h ree months after Pearl harbour and from there until he end, when he was sailing p and down the Japanese dands shelling their cities at nil, he chased the Japanese dll ver the Pacific, engaging them )here it did them least good. \etween August, 1942, and >ctober of the following year, )hen the Japanese were finally hrown out of the Solomons, admiral Halsey learned to know he Coast Watchers and to assess heir worth in the type of war are peculiar to that theatre of perations.