Word: halseyisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...South west Pacific. Around him were hundreds of transports, shepherded by an Australian squadron and MacArthur's own Seventh Fleet, reinforced with jeep carriers from Admiral Chester Nimitz' vast armada of seagoing airdromes. On the horizon loomed the majestic battleships of Admiral Wil liam F. Halsey's Third Fleet - some of them ghosts from the graveyard of Pearl Harbor. Beyond the horizon steamed the greatest concentration of water-borne air power in war's history-Vice Admiral Mitscher's fast carrier task groups...
...tide of war surged back across the Pacific and the Navy's theater overlapped into MacArthur's domain, there came the inevitable discovery: MacArthur and the Navy (as wags liked to put it) were really allies. "Bull" Halsey met MacArthur; they found there was no reason for friction - at least, not any more. Chester Nimitz flew down to New Guinea; he and MacArthur conferred. While the Navy struck across the Pacific, through the Gilberts and Marshalls, past Truk and into the Marianas and western Carolines, MacArthur's men got stout naval support...
That night and the next day Halsey and Mitscher stayed at it. More air groups hammered at the Pescadores on the China side of Formosa. The next day, and the next, the Third Fleet was still fighting off bombers, still raining explosives on Formosa's fat targets...
Meanwhile, the Halsey-Mitscher forces bored south. From the Philippine Sea, Mitscher sent air groups out for yet other strikes at Aparri and airfields around Manila Bay. The week's total of Jap aircraft destroyed rose...
...classic achievement lay behind Halsey and Mitscher. The Philippines had been largely isolated from aerial reinforcement; Jap supply-line establishments lay in ruins. Among the lost islands to the south, greater history-making lay ahead...