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Under cover of naval and air bombardment, Southwest Pacific forces, commanded fc General MacArthur, stream ashore from landing craft to seize a beachhead on the island of Morotai in the Moluccas on 15 September 1944. General MacArthur hims accompanied the invasion force aboard the light cruiser Nashville.