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Bull Halsey became a great commander. Off Guadalcanal he won a campaign so tight that at the end of it, he was down to "2,300 gallons of aviation gasoline and three or four planes fit to fight." From the South China Sea to Formosa he improvised great sea-air sweeps that cost the Japanese "so many ships that I cannot count them." As commander of the big Third Fleet at the Battle of Leyte Gulf, he was the scourge of the Japanese Navy. Toward the end of the war, Halsey took task forces of battleships as well as carriers...
...Formosa. When Clerk Tsai Yung-ting awoke at 2 a.m., the rain had been falling for hours on the sleeping coastal village of Houlung. Too late, he rushed down to the sea wall-to find the dike watchmen asleep and the water pouring through. By the time he got back to rouse the sleeping village, the torrent was already waisthigh. That night Tsai and 29 others of Houlung's 100 people died...
...Axis" became the new target, and Communists sought to isolate West Germany's Konrad Adenauer as the only warmonger left. Only in Communist China was there a delayed reaction, and then a restrained and dutiful approval of the Eisenhower-Khrushchev meeting (a similar lack of enthusiasm came from Formosa...
...such decisions have to be made on a day-to-day basis, and concern about such momentous problems sometimes makes it hard for a President to sleep well at night. Even so, the crisis so far is no worse than the others: the possibility of war during the Formosa Strait tension of 1954-55 actually gave Ike more worry...
Cruising along at 40,000 ft. over the Formosa Strait, eight Chinese Nationalist F-86 Sabre jets picked out the white contrails of nearly a score of Communist MIG-17s in the early morning sunlight. With a confidence born of repeated successes in aerial clashes with Red pilots and with more than 2,000 flight hours per man logged in Sabre jets (an operational experience that is the envy of U.S. Air Force pilots), the Chinese Nationalists jumped the MIGs...