Word: halseyisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Admiral Halsey's marines from the Solomons swept around right end to seize two of the St. Matthias Islands, just as General MacArthur's foot cavalry had swept around left end to seize the Admiralties. In the St. Matthias Islands only a small hello was uttered by the veteran marines to a minor unwelcoming committee of Japanese...
...southwest Pacific flyers under command of General MacArthur and Admiral Halsey were busy as beavers. During the week some 500 tons of bombs were dropped on Rabaul, finally made so untenable that no Jap fighters rose to intercept...
...bill to come would make Admirals Chester W. Nimitz and William F. Halsey Admirals of the Fleet (equals British Admiral of the Fleet...
...voice from Tokyo, "the war situation has increased with unprecedented seriousness-nay, furiousness." Some examples: > Off the China coast Claire Chennault's Fourteenth U.S. Air Force got its biggest weekly bag of the war: 27,000 tons of Jap shipping definitely sunk. > Against "negligible" resistance Admiral William F. Halsey's amphibious troops took the Green (Nissan) Islands between Bougainville and New Ireland, cut off an estimated 22,000 Japs in the Northern Solomons, ended the Solomons campaign. > Rabaul declined further as an effective Jap base as U.S. and Australian flyers sank twelve ships...
...thrust at Wendell Willkie, who has held no public office. And no one could miss the similarity of Point 3 to criticism of Tom Dewey. Joe Ball, adding his four points together, got Harold Stassen. From the South Seas, where Lieut. Commander Stassen is flag secretary to Admiral Bill Halsey, the waves brought no answer. The husky Minnesotan was as silent as a serviceman should...