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...Come & Get Me." Headlong Admiral Halsey had another ambition. When the fleet got back to respectable strength and the Jap radio still tauntingly asked "Where is Halsey?" he had exclaimed: "I'd like to send a signal giving my latitude & longitude, and dare 'em to come and get me. But Nimitz won't let me." Last week, Fleet Admiral Nimitz still omitted to mention the latitude & longitude, and named only a small part of the strength of Task Force 38. But it was a fair and fearful sample...
...Coach. At sea, during an air operation, Halsey does not exercise detailed, tactical control of the fleet: that is the responsibility of the top carrier admiral (in this case, McCain). But Halsey wears the Navy's gold wings above the left breast pocket of his open-necked, tieless shirt. He won them at 52, and is regarded by career aviators as a reasonable facsimile of a high-octane air admiral...
While he has never flown a modern, fast combat plane, and has never flown on or off a carrier's deck, Bull Halsey has more of the patina of the flyer than most others of the Navy's Johnny-come-latelies to aviation-and shows his age less...
This is not so much a matter of training as of temperament. In his college days, which included a year at the University of Virginia before he went to Annapolis, by McKinley appointment, Halsey passed from "Pudge" or "Bill," as his family had called him, to "Bull...
Five feet nine inches tall, he weighed 150 Ibs. during the two years (1902, 1903) he played fullback on an oft-defeated Navy team. There are countless versions, with apocryphal trimmings, of the incident in which Halsey starred most conspicuously as "the bull." Navy was being flattened by a beefy, bulldozing V.P.I. team. A middie tackled the bruiser who was carrying the ball for V.P.I., rolled with him across the sidelines and under the bleachers. The crowd cheered the mid die, but he did not get up: thoroughly bulldozed, Bull Halsey was carried off on a stretcher...