Word: halseyisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Admiral William F. Halsey finally rang down the curtain on his vaudeville act about riding the Mikado's white horse: after all, Hirohito's personal belongings were still his. The saddle sent by Reno would go to the U.S. Naval Academy museum, unless Reno wanted...
...order was going to be hard to enforce. Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey did not make it any easier. After the surrender ceremony on the Missouri, Halsey said he would "like to have kicked each Japanese delegate in the face...
Once again Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey performed for the photographers. Aboard his flagship, the mighty Missouri, he used a bayonet to slice a cake iced like a Japanese flag. But he was unhappy. He was about to go into Japan, and almost everybody expected him to ride the Emperor's white horse when he got there...
During the last year of World War II the U.S. Navy indulged in a bit of pleasantry designed to deceive the Japanese: Admiral William F. Halsey commanded the Third Fleet, Admiral Raymond A. Spruance the Fifth. Actually, the fleets and the ships therein were the same; the designation simply changed when the commanders alternated. Last week, as the Navy prepared to move into Japanese waters, the ships finally were divided: for the first time there were actually a Halsey and a Spruance fleet...
Taken to Admiral William F. Halsey's 45,000-ton flagship Missouri, the Japs handed over armloads of charts covering Yokosuka's approaches to serve as guides for the occupiers...