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Originally Posted by propbeanie
No sir! Higher authority that FDR is required... MacArthur is "Supreme Commander"...  |
not on submarine operations, sir.
Dugout Doug never had any control over submarine operations. Ever. NFW.
Marshall conned Ernie King to designate a couple of rowboats and a canoe as the Seventh Fleet for MacArthur to call his own. It stayed that way until the Philippines Campaign in 1944 when the USN had to designate some actual warships to support Dugout and his return.
There is a USN legend that says that when Dugout was ordered out of Corregidor, the USN offered to take him and his family to Australia via submarine. Straight shot all the way to Melbourne.
Dugout wanted nothing to do with a sub, so we had to cook up the PT-boat thing to Mindanao and thence to an Army air base in order to fly him to Darwin and thence to train(s) to Melbourne.
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