Word: halseyisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From his vantage point at Admiral William F. Halsey's headquarters, TIME Correspondent Duncan Norton-Taylor thus appraised the Allied offensive in the Pacific last week. What he wrote applied to every phase of that offensive-in the Solomons, in New Guinea 700 miles to the west, in the islands between...
...under General Douglas MacArthur, was aimed at the Japanese positions in northern New Guinea (first Salamaua, then Lae) and at the island gateway between the Pacific proper and its southern satellite, the Coral Sea. The other part, though planned by General MacArthur, was under the immediate command of Admiral Halsey. His Naval, Marine and Army forces aimed at Munda, a Japanese air base and army station on New Georgia Island, some 200 miles northwest of Guadalcanal. On the approach to Munda, the Americans first took the outlying island of Rendova, and positions on New Georgia itself, and on Vangunu Island...
...this offensive need not fail if it stops short of Rabaul. Nor, if the Americans and Australians do take Rabaul itself, need it follow that Truk must be reduced. The great value of the offensive is the wide range of tactical choice given to MacArthur. He and Admiral Halsey may prefer to deal with Rabaul's air fleets in the air-once the Allies were so close, the Japs would have little choice but to spend their planes and pilots. Rather than attempt a prodigious expedition against Truk, the Air Forces and the Navy may prefer to deal with...
General MacArthur and Admiral Halsey met in Australia three months ago, probably agreed then on the part each was to play. According to dispatches from General MacArthur's headquarters, he planned the operation in detail, without abolishing the arbitrary geographical line between Admiral Halsey's area, which stops just west of Guadalcanal, and General MacArthur's, which begins there. All the objectives lay in the MacArthur area; direction, therefore, fell to him. Admiral Halsey was still responsible to Admiral Nimitz and to the Navy Department in Washington. So, presumably, were the naval units which worked with Lieut...
Next big action was at Santa Cruz, where Enterprise was badly damaged and withdrew for repairs. But Bill Halsey had to order her out to meet an enemy thrust before she was entirely restored; Navy "Seabees" rode along from the base and were still hard at work patching when she started sending her planes into action. In the final round of the Solomons battle last November, the torpedo bombers caught a Kongo-class battleship, slapped it with six tin fish and left it dead in the water...