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...Japs on Guadalcanal did not give in; they gave out. Said Captain Miles Browning, chief of staff to Admiral William F. Halsey: "It was not a definite surrender. Our flanking forces closed the pincers on the enemy and a blot-out took place. There was no more space for the Japs to occupy...
...Officer Mentality. Osami Nagano represents the most aggressive, hearty, popular officer type Japan possesses: he is a kind of Greater East Asian Halsey. He is big for a Japanese-about 5 ft. 9 in., and built like a barrel. He is famous for being able to roll liquor past his tongue without loosening it. He is, as all Japanese warriors should be, a good family man: at the age of 62 he is presently engaged in raising a family with his third wife. He laughs with his belly and his guts are tough...
They managed to send an SOS to U.S. Admiral William Halsey-"by means which we cannot make public." He replied by sending a submarine to rescue them. For four days, until taken off by a patrol ship, they led their sisterly lives, said the rosary in the cramped, metallic quarters of the undersea craft...
...Diversion? Since Nov. 15 the restless Jap has made no major offensive moves. He seems for the time being to have given up much thought of retaking Guadalcanal: each of his tries there had been disasters. Reconnaissance has made the Jap aware of the great increases in Admiral William Halsey's forces east of Australia. This week Navy Minister Shigetaro Shimada said that Jap planes had spotted a huge U.S. task force off Rennell Island, south of Guadalcanal. (He claimed that torpedo planes had sunk two battleships and three cruisers...
Last Christmas Day Saunders and his chief executive, Major Jack Malloy, were summoned to headquarters of the Solomons' Air Commander, Major General Millard Harmon, for a cocktail party. In the midst of festivities COMSOUPAC Admiral William F. Halsey showed up, read an order, pinned on flustered Blondie the stars of a brigadier general...