MacArthur’s need for speed: Why Fuller was fired at Biak
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Abstract The US campaign for Biak in 1944 was one of the most challenging, albeit little known, operations Pacific war. Major General Horace Fuller’s HURRICANE Task Force faced a tenacious enemy determined to hold island’s three airfields at all costs. Grossly underestimating number Japanese defenders on Biak, MacArthur and Kreuger allocated Fuller only two regimental combat teams initial invasion May 1944. Once ashore, troops encountered shift tactics from defending water’s edge using inland fukkaku, honeycombed underground defensive positions that masked artillery. When task force failed deliver as quickly desired by Douglas MacArthur, Lieutenant Walter Krueger relieved commander replaced him with Robert Eichelberger. This article contends did not have good cause relieve Fuller; rather, he simply so placate who, multitude reasons, pressured fast victory. I assess flaws planning execution operation, MacArthur’s motives, personality dynamics between support my conclusion ultimately victim impatience.
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عنوان ژورنال: Open Military Studies
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2545-3254']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/openms-2022-0121