Word: halseyisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minnesota, who gave a radio address on Thursday night with this as his punch point. To add to the confusion, Maas threw in the old story of no unified command and lack of cooperation between Army and Navy--all of this on top of recent assurances that Vice Admiral Halsey is completely and competently in charge of the task force in the Solomons...
...news pictures brought a quick and intimate sense of struggle: the grim face of Vice Admiral William F. Halsey, the new commander, surrounded by his staff (see cut); the fuzzy young faces and grizzled old faces of marines in foxholes; the bodies of Japs, looking menacing even in death, on the river banks. Though Guadalcanal was 6,000 miles away, it now seemed as close as the next block...
...battle ever since the Solomons invasion began. Not until last week, almost seven weeks after the Wasp had been sunk by submarines, did it come. A great Jap naval force in two sections, including at least three aircraft carriers, bore down from the northeast. Vice Admiral William Frederick ("Bull") Halsey Jr., the South Pacific's new commander, had his carrier force ready to battle Jap carriers for the third time in six months. Once again the battle was chiefly between planes and ships; no major surface engagement was reported by the Navy...
...Admiral Halsey's flyers damaged two Jap aircraft carriers of the 17,000-ton Zuikaku class-one of them with four to six heavy bomb hits. They hit a battleship of the 29,330-ton Kongo class with two heavy bombs, another battleship with one; scored torpedo and bomb hits on three heavy cruisers. The Jap plane loss was heavier than in the Coral Sea battle, about half as heavy as Midway: "over 100" destroyed, 50 more probably shot down...
...unidentified U.S. aircraft carrier had followed the Lexington, Yorktown and Wasp to a deep grave in the Pacific. Whether she was the Enterprise, the Saratoga, the Ranger or the Hornet was not announced. When the Japs withdrew northward, either in outright retreat or to regroup for another action, Bull Halsey sent his ships to shell the enemy positions on Guadalcanal...