The Sept. 12, 1943, letter concluded: “To resupply was physically impossible; and to be without supplies would mean failure. It was up to him [McNamara], and he did it!”

This Report was extracted from the unofficial history of the Australian & New Zealand Armed Services where it had been included because in the Pacific the Australian army was, to a large degree, dependent on the US military for the supply of Quartermaster Services.

More than 6,000 trucks kept gasoline and other vital supplies rolling in as American troops and tanks pushed the Germans back toward their homeland.