Word: halseyisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Others who would help piece the story together: General George Marshall, Lieut. General Leonard T. Gerow, chief of the war plans division; Admiral Harold R. Stark, then Chief of Naval Operations; Admiral William F. Halsey, who was leading a task force toward Pearl Harbor when the Japs struck; Grace Tully, personal secretary to Franklin Roosevelt and guardian of his personal papers; Secretaries Hull, Welles and Grew and Governor Thomas E. Dewey, who in his 1944 campaign had abjured all reference to the cracking of the Jap code, on the suggestion of the U.S. Army...
...began to arrive from a nation which had tardily remembered its Navy. She fought at Saipan and Tinian. She was a picket ship. She was fire support. She was mobile 5-in. artillery steaming inshore against Jap pillboxes. She operated at Guam and later at Palau and later with Halsey in the second Battle of the Philippines...
Admiral William F. Halsey, guest of honor at a Los Angeles dinner, met an old friend, Mrs. Patricia Smart, fell into the swing of civilian life with no trouble...
...Halsey and Nimitz...
Like Nimitz and Halsey...