Word: halseyisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shaggy-browed "Bull" Halsey was moving on. In the "Admiral's Cabin," a roomy office on the second floor of a former French barracks in Noumea, there was handshaking and bluff well-wishing. Admiral William F. Halsey had just handed over a command that had once been the toughest in U.S. naval history. The now quiescent South Pacific was going to a top administrative officer-Vice Admiral John Henry Newton, formerly deputy commander of the Pacific Fleet. Said Halsey to his men: ". . . Carry on the smashing South Pacific tradition . . . and may we join up again farther along the road...
...Headlong "Bull" Halsey had forged a powerful weapon in the Solomons, had wielded it with skill, daring, many sulfurous asides (a public-relations officer had finally been assigned to clean up his bullish predictions, screen his football-field bombast). Now once again he would have a chance to forge a weapon, drive it to the heart of the Japanese empire...
Farther Along. Halsey's new job was the command of the Third Fleet. This fleet had served under him in the Solomons, but now, presumably, would be considerably reinforced. Said Admiral Nimitz, the Third Fleet will operate "the same way that the Fifth Fleet is operating under the command of Admiral Spruance" (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS...
Naval men had little doubt as to what this new appointment meant in terms of battle. Scuttlebutt had it that Halsey and Spruance would trade off in a highly stepped-up Pacific offensive. While one fleet commander planned and organized an action, the other would be fighting...
...years that are left to me, I shall loathe every Jap. And with Halsey and Patton and all the rest, including the farmers of New Jersey, who have the courage to speak out and act, I shall want them scourged from this our blessed America, which is my native land, too. Only a dead Jap can be trusted...