<P> The New Guinea Force, under General Thomas Blamey, was assigned responsibility for the eastward thrusts on mainland New Guinea . The 6th Arm, under General Walter Krueger, was to take Kiriwina, Woodlark, and Cape Gloucester . The land forces would be supported by Allied air units under Lieutenant General George Kenney and naval units under Vice Admiral Arthur S. Carpender . </P> <P> In the midst of Operation Cartwheel, the Joint Chiefs met with President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at the Quadrant Conference in Quebec City in August 1943 . There, the decision was made to bypass and isolate Rabaul, rather than attempting to capture the base, and to attack Kavieng instead . Soon afterward, the decision was made to bypass Kavieng as well . Although initially objected to by MacArthur, the bypassing of Rabaul, instead of its neutralisation, meant that his Elkton plan had been achieved, and after invading Saidor, he then moved into his Reno Plan, an advance across the north coast of New Guinea to Mindanao . </P> <P> The campaign, which stretched into 1944, showed the effectiveness of a strategy of avoiding major concentrations of enemy forces and instead aiming to sever the Japanese lines of supply and communication . </P>

How did operation cartwheel influence subsequent operations in the pacific