Alamo Force

The Oxford Companion to World War II | 2001 | 662 words | Copyright

Alamo Force was the task force MacArthur created for CARTWHEEL, the operation launched in June 1943 to reduce Rabaul. Its forces comprised Lt-General Walter Krueger's Sixth US Army whose HQ and commanding general it shared. Alamo Force came directly under MacArthur's command, thus effectively removing all US troops from the operational control of MacArthur's South-West Pacific Area Allied Land Forces commander, General Blamey. Forces controlled by, or assigned to, Alamo Force landed on the Trobriand Islands, New Britain, the Admiralty Islands, and at Saidor and Hollandia in Dutch New Guinea, and they also took part in liberating the Philippines.

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