Word: halseyisms
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...this purpose, the spry little 142-pound admiral had hundreds of aircraft flying from the big, fait carriers of Admiral Halsey's Third Fleet. He peered through red-rimmed eyes as the air groups were flown off and formed up at dawn, hundreds of miles east of their targets. His chief of staff, Rear Admiral Wilder Du Puy Baker, is a grandfather, but McCain addressed him as "Son." He addressed everybody on the flag bridge as "Son." One of them was Commander John S. ("Jimmy") Thach, inventor of the Navy fighter plane technique for Jap-killing, known...
...Dunckel's force knew it. From the San José airfields, patrols could wing far over the South China Sea, harrying Jap shipping; Luzon could be softened for invasion and General MacArthur's return to Manila. Mindoro's fields would take the load off Admiral "Bull" Halsey's carrier airmen, who even then, acting as tactical air force for MacArthur, were smashing at the Japs' Philippine airdromes...
Admiral William F. Halsey (New Year's Day, 1943): "1943 will see . . . complete, absolute defeat for the Axis...
...Pershing's "General of the Armies." Five-star rank on O.D. shoulders (equals British Field Marshal) is scheduled to go to Generals Marshall, Arnold, Eisenhower and MacArthur. In the Navy (where it equals British "Admiral of the Fleet") it is reported ready for Admirals King, Leahy, Nimitz and Halsey...
...well have slowed down U.S. Navy plans by forcing the fleet to keep extra carrier-based planes in the area; last week a carrier task force was back at the old job of beating up airfields around Manila, smashing shipping in the harbor. In one operation around Luzon, Admiral Halsey's flyers sank 20 Jap ships, shot down 72 planes...