Word: halseyisms
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...they droned off over Japan, others were left behind to fly CAP (combat air patrol). And on the bridge of the Third Fleet's flagship was the tough, stubby seadog whom the Japanese mortally hate & fear. "Bull" Halsey was on the prowl...
...Japs know Admiral William Frederick Halsey, to their sorrow. They know him as the Annapolis-trained Dead End Kid who calls the Japs monkeys, whose battle cry is "Kill Japs, kill Japs, and then kill more Japs." They also know him as the calculating, chance-taking seaman who coolly gambled on disaster in the Philip pines invasion last fall to send his fleet north and destroy most of the surviving carriers of the Japanese fleet...
That was the end of Japanese sea power. This time the enemy knew, weeks before he struck, that Halsey was at sea again. The blow was delivered in the Halsey manner that they had learned to expect. It was daring, powerful, crushing. The Third Fleet's battleships could have run into serious trouble, standing off Japan for a shore bombardment. Halsey took the chance...
...North. Then the U.S. fleet dropped over the horizon. Was that the end? Would Halsey hit again? Of course he would. But when & where? The enemy could only wait and wonder...
Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey had ridiculed the Jap air force as fifth or sixth rate, "instead of third rate." Vice Admiral Marc A. ("Pete") Mitscher had said that suicide planes were "not more than 2% effective . . . they don't worry us very much." But the weight of the Navy's own evidence seemed to indicate that the admirals might have been indulging in the ancient game of fanning the breeze. Navy censors passed a less cheery opinion in a dispatch from Stanley Woodward, burly, globe-trotting sports editor of the New York Herald Tribune: "There...