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Military observers in Washington agreed, cited a significant parallel: last September, when Admiral Halsey began pounding the Philippines, the Jap flyers refused to come up and fight. But in October, at Leyte and in January at Luzon the Japs had plenty of planes ready for the invasion ships...
More important - particularly to the Big Three meeting in Potsdam - was the weight of high explosives being dumped on Japanese targets. Halsey roamed ostentatiously up & down the Emperor's coastline in the foul weather which seems to attach itself to the Third Fleet. The B-29s from the Marianas struck two great blows, firing four cities each time...
Even the provocation of the bold, unprecedented strikes by Admiral William F. Halsey's Third Fleet against northern Honshu and Hokkaido had failed to lure out the remnants of the Japanese air force. The weather over Hokkaido was foul; the low overcast blocked the efforts of flyers from Vice Admiral John S. McCain's flagship Shangri-La (and her many sister carriers) to find the fields where the Jap planes were supposed to be skulking. Not a single Kamikaze roared over the fleet...
...with measured daring and high hopes, Halsey turned south (see map) with the greatest naval force ever assembled to jab at the enemy's heart. On the way his massive force was magnified. He was joined by the British Pacific Fleet (operating in strength equivalent to a U.S. task group, with probably four carriers, two or more battleships and a dozen to a score of cruisers and destroyers). Its commander: fair-haired, grey-eyed Vice Admiral Sir Henry Bernard Rawlings...
Shots in the Dark. Halsey selected that night for his most defiant gesture. His battleships steamed within ten miles of the coast of Honshu, northeast of Tokyo. As they bore south, each trained the 67-ft. barrels of its nine 16-inch rifles over the starboard beam...