Word: halseyisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other major U.S. actions (so far as known) have all been naval or air encounters in the Far East, and all substantially successful. One group of these: task-force operations, the brilliant raids led by Vice Admiral Halsey on the Marshall and Gilbert Islands, on Wake and Marcus. Others were miscellaneous actions such as that in which Lieut, (now Lieut. Commander) O'Hare shot down five Jap bombers when a U.S. task force was itself under attack...
...Admiral Nimitz could thank his task-force commanders, sea dogs like bushy-browed Vice Admiral William Frederick Halsey Jr., a naval aviator who knows the potency of the swift attack, sighted and powered from the air; and scholarly Rear Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher, who helped give the Jap a mauling in the Marshall Islands raids. These and others were the men who carried out his tasks: broad-stripers like Vice Admiral Robert Lee Ghormley, new commander in New Zealand, and Vice Admiral Wilson Brown, onetime Superintendent of the Naval Academy and now Commander of the Pacific Scouting Force...
...good show, the second the Navy had given west of Pearl Harbor. More important than that, it happened weeks ago. U.S. citizens waited hopefully for the next time Bill Halsey's task force turned up at its home port...
...dawning, not in the south, but in the east. Bataan's relief is more likely to come from the broken lifeline between Pearl Harbor and the Philippines, where the Navy's task forces are at work. Last week a task force under Vice Admiral William Frederick Halsey Jr. put back into Pearl Harbor and told a cheering story...
...Admiral Halsey's force had taken no ground. But, as it had done in January in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands (TIME, Feb. 9), it had smashed the daylights out of two Jap bases. One of them was Wake Island, where 378 Marines had held out for 14 gallant days, second stop beyond Pearl Harbor in the reach to Jap-held Guam and Manila. The other was Marcus Island (Minama Tori Shima to the Japanese), only 1,150 miles from Tokyo...