Military
Service Of
Herndon Dwight Jimmy
Redus
( 1910 – 1994 )
• WW II - U.S.
Army •
Served in
South Pacific – Solomon Islands
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The campaign in
the Solomons carried
out the first two steps of a three stage campaign planned for Rabaul. The move northwest from
Guadalcanal up the Solomon Island
chain toward Rabaul was
named Operation Cartwheel,
the strategic responsibility of the Army and General Douglas MacArthur.
Naval forces were under the general supervision of Admiral Chester W.
Nimitz, whose vast Pacific Ocean Areas command included the North,
Central, and South Pacific Areas as subtheaters.
After November 1942, the South Pacific Area subtheater
was under Admiral William F. Halsey. Southwest Pacific forces were
under General MacArthur.
Map of the Solomon Islands
showing the Allied advance during 1943 and key air and naval bases.
