Word: halseyisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Oversight. On paper it was a fine complex plan. There were only two things against it: one was that Old Stagers Halsey, Mitscher and Kinkaid were comb ing the seas with planes and submarines looking for the attack; another was the overwhelming power of the U.S. force...
...Admiral Halsey disposed his Third Fleet to the east of the central Philippines-off southern Luzon, Samar and Leyte. Long-range scouts from Mitscher's carriers spotted the Japs' central and southern forces, ploughing through the Sibuyan and Sulu Seas. The central force was spearheaded by two new battleships of more than 40,000 tons, the Yamato and Musahi; three oldsters, the Nagato and the durable Kongo and Haruna. Shepherding them were eight cruisers and 13 destroyers. To the south were the 29,000-ton Huso and Yamasiro, going on 30 years old, four cruisers and seven...
...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...