"Cleaning the augean stables." The Morotai Mutiny?

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The Commissioner: The aim of your action was the improved situation.

Group Captain Arthur: Yes.

The Commissioner: To clean up the Augean Stables.

Group Captain Arthur: Yes.

(Commissioner to the Inquiry, John Vincent William Barry KC, to Group Captain Arthur, 10 August 1945.) (1)

In the latter stages of the war in the Pacific, the First Tactical Air Force (TAF) was based at Morotai. At this stage, General MacArthur was formulating a series of moves which aimed to free the southern Philippines, Netherlands East Indies and British Borneo of hostile forces. ...

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