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...behind a desk in Noumea and direct a campaign while other men fought the battles. Rear Admirals Daniel J. Callaghan and Norman Scott were killed in the crucial series of night actions known as the Battle of Guadalcanal (Nov. 13-15, 1942), which turned the Jap tide from the shores of "Bloody Island." Halsey became a hero and a four-star admiral. He took off the pins with three stars on them, ordered them sent to the widows of Callaghan and Scott. "Tell them," said he, "that it was their husbands' fighting guts that won me my four stars...
...resulting naval battle, Halsey was heartbroken when he had to leave two Jap battleships unsunk off Cape Engano, only to find that four others to the south had given him the slip. But he did not lose his temper for long. Bull Halsey is permanently mad only at the Japs...
During the November action the Ticonderoga planes helped litter Manila harbor with sunken Jap ships. In December, when I was aboard, the Third Fleet mostly ran into foul weather, but the carrier planes, including those from the Ticonderoga, left about 450 Jap planes wrecked on the air fields of Luzon, and others on Formosa, according to Halsey's reports...
...Jap reached his target he was flying very low, and he seemed to pull up a bit in an effort to hit the bridge. From the blackness a huge ball of orange flame spouted heavenward. Now the Ti was in great trouble. "She is still shooting, but she is going to sink sure as hell," said an officer beside...
...health, Chennault went forthwith to China, at Madame Chiang's request, plunged immediately into building up Chinese air power from a handful of outdated planes. His first big success came in 1941, when he formed the famed, spectacular American Volunteer Group ("Flying Tigers"), which shot down 297 Jap planes at a cost of 14 pilots...