Word: halseyisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Career airmen of the Navy, not so fortunate, are still represented in the upper strata (four-and five-star admirals) only by five-star COMINCH Ernest King, who learned to fly at 48 and has never worked hard at being an airman, and four-starred "Bull" Halsey, who was 52 before he ever had a control stick in his hands. This week, naval aviators who had been busy at flying since they were youngsters watched anxiously for the Navy's list of promotions to four-star rank. But they watched without much hope. To the Navy's crusty...
...Pinned yet another Gold Star, in lieu of a third D.S.M., on famed Admiral "Bull" Halsey...
Peace by Force. As flag secretary to Admiral William F. Halsey Jr., Commander Stassen had seen what the power of modern ships and planes and weapons can accomplish. Now he called for the U.S. "to remain strong on land, at sea and in the air," so that the nation may join with Russia, Great Britain, China, France and the other United Nations in furnishing a worldwide police power...
Missing. Lieut. General Millard Fillmore ("Miff") Harmon, 57, studious, unstarched commander of Army Air Forces, Pacific; in a converted Liberator bomber; en route from a forward Pacific base to Hawaii. His ability and knack at coordinating Army, Navy and Marine forces prompted Admiral Halsey to call him "Rock of Gibraltar." Successor: his deputy, rugged Major General Willis Henry Hale...
...Newspapers carried photographs of stern Admiral Ernest J. King-whose smiles are almost as rare as Stalin's-actually laughing; even more startling, both he and Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey were shown with drinks in their hands...