Word: halseyisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Halsey, a fighting man. But the people saw the shift more as evidence of previous bungling than as a hopeful sign...
Knuckle-Swinger Up. Last week the Navy fixed responsibility. Vice Admiral Robert L. Ghormley was relieved of his command of the entire operation. In his place, as Commander of the South Pacific, Vice Admiral William F. Halsey Jr. went to work. Admiral Halsey, who looks saltier than sodium chloride, is known throughout the Navy as a tough, aggressive, restless man. He led the brilliant attack on the Marshall Islands in January, commanded other hit-&-run raids...
...even a knuckle-swinger like Admiral Halsey was helpless to sustain General Vandegrift unless the strategy-makers far behind the lines had received their Pacific estimates and allocated more materials. One air group, which would be just a drop in the barrel in Europe, could have helped win many more skirmishes on Guadalcanal by affording much-needed relief for tired men and worn planes...
...became a naval air observer at 46. He once commanded the carrier Saratoga, later the Fleet's aircraft battle force. Rear Admiral Arthur Byron Cook, onetime BuAer chief, now in charge of aircraft operating with the Atlantic Fleet, who learned to fly at 54 Vice Admiral William F. Halsey Jr., the Navy's senior admiral at sea, COMCARPAC (Commander of Carriers in the Pacific) until Admiral Towers' new appointment, who got his flight training at 53. Nonetheless Halsey is rated the most experienced of U.S. aviator commanders, has a real knowledge of the functions of aircraft] which...
Also back in Washington last week were two other Congressmen newly returned from wartime service: shrewd, taciturn Francis Eugene Walter of Pennsylvania, after six months of offshore patrol out of Norfolk, Va., and short, blond Warren Grant Magnuson of Washington who served with Admiral Halsey on Pacific task-force expeditions. They will have to stay on land, under a new Presidential order, until Franklin Roosevelt decides they are needed on active duty again. Until then, Representatives Johnson, Walter and Magnuson can tell fellow-Congressmen what modern war is really like...