Word: halseyisms
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...Land-based Army & Navy planes made their first coordinated attack with the flyers of Admiral William Halsey's Third Fleet, capping a week of unprecedented assault on the remnant of what was once the Imperial Japanese Navy. Among the Japanese casualties: the battleships Haruna (and no mistake, this time), Hyuga, Na gato...
...military man now predicted an immediate surrender by Japan: Admiral William F. Halsey's ill-considered 1943 forecast-"Victory This Year"-was not forgotten. But an astonishing number of military men last week joined in a propaganda barrage designed to bring about an early surrender...
After 52 minutes (and 2,000 tons of ammunition) Halsey turned away from the coast and next morning the airmen went in again. The weather: worse. Targets for the U.S. flyers: warships at the great Yokosuka navy yard in Tokyo Bay, only 30 miles from the Imperial Palace...
That night, Halsey made yet another defiant gesture: covered by destroyers, U.S. light cruisers steamed up and bombarded coastal installations around Cape Nojima, at the mouth of Tokyo Bay. One big explosion was seen; the rest was shrouded in the soup...
...layman this might have looked like coordination between Navy and Air. Not so. The airmen frankly admitted that they had not even waited for the Navy's damage reports: Hitachi had long been on their list of targets and they had bombed it regardless of what Halsey's guns might have done...