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When asked if he found that athletic training in secondary schools and colleges helps any when in action. "Yes, I think the idea of everyone pulling together holds true in war. Most of the big generals and admirals are sports minded, MacArthur, Halsey and the others." Commenting on short-wave broadcasts of important athletic events. Don said, "I can't remember ever hearing one. The only way men on board ship get spirts dope is in the morning when the wireless operation pick up news and type it out. Of course you might have a few radios on some ships...
Next day MacArthur called for extra help from Admiral Halsey's Third Fleet flyers. Carrier-based planes caught the Japs further offshore, sank all ten ships of a convoy which included 8,000 men by MacArthur's estimate. Army and Navy flyers and antiaircraft gunners also shot down 81 Jap planes last week, bringing the total Jap losses over and near Leyte to 1,700 planes since Oct. 20. Whatever the price of holding the Philippines as long as possible, the Jap apparently was willing to fork it up. But it would not be the first time...
That night, Admiral "Bull" Halsey's staff, the self-styled "Dirty Tricks Department," decided that it would be in their tradition to hit the Japs before the next dawn. Result: only 22 Jap planes had to be shot down; 227 which had been pinned down by night intruders were smashed on the ground in a few hours. Habit-bound themselves, the Japs had failed to allow for the change of pace. "I knew they were stupid," said Trickster Halsey, ". . . but not that stupid...
...then the Japanese plan of encirclement was completely revealed, and "Bull" Halsey had a hard decision to make. He weighed the alternatives, concluded that the newly found northern force was the greatest threat (especially in view of the heavy damage reported done to the central force). Then he acted. His characteristic decision was: attack. He and Mitscher charged north through the night at high speed with most of the fast carrier groups and fast battleships...
Good News for the Cripples. "Bull" Halsey's swift stroke had been brilliantly successful, but he was going to have to let some of the cripples get away. In mid-battle, he got a desperate call for help from Kinkaid's Seventh Fleet. Had Halsey stayed too long at his appointment in the north? Kinkaid's jeep carriers had already caught it hot & heavy from the Japs' central force, which whipped through San Bernardino Strait before dawn-before the jeeps' aircraft could get off. The CVEs were at no pains to hide their plight: they...