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...those who suspected he was in the Navy only for effect soon revised their opinion. He was the ideal naval administrator-big, neat, quiet, orderly and a bear for work. Halsey made him his flag secretary-chief administrative officer of headquarters ashore, and an assistant chief of staff at sea-and began calling him Harold...
...break. He requested combat duty and was sent to famed Admiral Bill Halsey's staff-a piece of luck such as few fresh-water reserve officers enjoyed. But after that he made his own way. His first interview with the Admiral was one of the shortest in naval history. Growled Halsey: "Are you down here to work?" Said Stassen: "Yes, sir." That...
Lucky Stassen. He saw action as Halsey's observer during a naval engagement off Empress Augusta Bay, and began to be regarded as a sort of human charm: his ship was hit twice and frequently straddled by gunfire but it suffered little damage. He saw more action after that-many an officer was comforted to see him on the bridge of the Admiral's flagship during the vicious and decisive Battles of the Philippine Sea. Sailormen took to the custom of patting his khaki shirt, just for luck...
...returned to the U.S. before the war was over. Franklin Roosevelt had, to Commander Stassen's private amazement, appointed him a delegate to the San Francisco Conference. But he was back with Halsey when the fleet moved into Tokyo Bay. There his big job was to get U.S. prisoners of war out of bondage. He began at a camp near Tokyo called Omori Prison Camp No. 8, was wildly cheered by gaunt...
From retirement, Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey had his say about the responsibility for the Pearl Harbor disaster. "In all my experience," he wrote in the Satevepost, "I have never known a Commander in Chief of any United States Fleet who worked harder, and under more adverse circumstances. ... I know of no officer . . . who could have done more than [Admiral Husband E.] Kimmel...