U.S. Army Forces, Pacific Ocean Areas

U.S. Army Forces, Pacific Ocean Areas (AFPOA)... 

In actually commanding troops, Unmacht came closer to the manual definition of a chief of service than any other chief chemical officer. But this was not the only way in which Unmacht s position differed from the positions of the other chief chemical officers. The Hawaiian Departnient and its successor commands, U.S. Army Forces, Central Pacific Area (USAFICPA), U.S. Army Forces, Pacific Ocean Areas (USAFPOA), and U.S. Army Forces, Middle Pacific (USAFMID-PAC), were in fact theater headquarters of the kind envisioned in the War Department organization manuals, and in these headquarters, unlike those in Europe, North Africa, and the Southwest Pacific, a commander, who did not double also as a supreme commander, was resident. Unmacht therefore had more opportunity to present his... 

Thc Hawaiian Department soon became U.S. Army Forces, Central Pacific Area, and later U.S. Army Forces, Pacific Ocean Areas and U.S. Army Forces, Middle Pacific. Colonel Unmacht served as chemical oficer of these head< uarters throughout the war. 

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