US Marine Corps - The Black Vault

510 Amphibians Came To Conquer
Just before departure on 7 June, Rear Admiral Turner came down with
malaria, and the doctors insisted on transferring him to the hospital ship
Solace. His temporary separation from active command of Task Force 32
and Task Unit 32.8.2 is referred to in the War Diary of his command only
in these terms “Rear Admiral Turner was detained in Noumea.” According
to an author who was in the South Pacific at the time:
Admiral Turner was a sick man before the New Georgia campaign started;
he ‘shoulda stood in bed,’ as they say in the Bronx. A fortnight before D-Day,
he was stricken with malaria and dengue fever and hoisted aboard the hospital
ship Solace. . . .Zo
Rear Admiral Anderson, Turner’s Chief of Staff at the time, remembered:
a Driscollj Pttcific Victory, p. 69.