Word: halseyisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week the cover was ripped off. Big, fast carriers of Admiral William F. Halsey's Third Fleet, which had been sending air groups to hammer Formosa and Luzon, swung southwest through Luzon Strait from the Philippine Sea to the South China...
While intelligence officers were still compiling the results of these assaults, the Halsey force swung back to the north. A combat air patrol (200 planes, by enemy count) went to work on Formosa. But there were enough planes left to make carrier-aviation history, by swooping down on the China coast to attack Amoy, Swatow and the captive British colony of Hong Kong...
...fast carrier task force of Admiral Halsey's Third Fleet had retired to refuel. There had been reports of an approaching typhoon; however, most of the Fleet's aerologists had charted it considerably farther east. Then the storm began to veer erratically toward the task force. We could see that we were in for a typhoon of savage ferocity...
...this purpose, the spry little 142-pound admiral had hundreds of aircraft flying from the big, fait carriers of Admiral Halsey's Third Fleet. He peered through red-rimmed eyes as the air groups were flown off and formed up at dawn, hundreds of miles east of their targets. His chief of staff, Rear Admiral Wilder Du Puy Baker, is a grandfather, but McCain addressed him as "Son." He addressed everybody on the flag bridge as "Son." One of them was Commander John S. ("Jimmy") Thach, inventor of the Navy fighter plane technique for Jap-killing, known...
...Dunckel's force knew it. From the San José airfields, patrols could wing far over the South China Sea, harrying Jap shipping; Luzon could be softened for invasion and General MacArthur's return to Manila. Mindoro's fields would take the load off Admiral "Bull" Halsey's carrier airmen, who even then, acting as tactical air force for MacArthur, were smashing at the Japs' Philippine airdromes...