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...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...
...force, said Nimitz, was "a part of the Third Fleet." It was built around McCain's fast carrier task force, usually made up of three or four groups. (Sample group: four carriers, two or more battleships, half a dozen cruisers and a dozen destroyers...
...Nimitz also published the names of three of McCain's task group commanders: pianoplaying, fight-loving Rear Admiral Gerald F. Bogan; lean, relaxed Rear Admiral Arthur W. Radford; and serious, solid Rear Admiral Thomas L. Sprague, recently graduated from jeep carriers to the big sisters...
Tojo Had the Ball. But Halsey was a sailorman's sailor; the Navy still expected great things of him. On Sept. 15, on the deck of the Saratoga at Pearl Harbor, Admiral Nimitz said: "I've got a surprise for you, men. Admiral Halsey's back." Officers and enlisted men broke into cheers when Halsey stepped forward...
...campaign for Guadalcanal was going from bad to worse (the Wasp had just been sunk), and Nimitz sent Halsey south. A month later, he named him Commander, South Pacific - and the spirits of fighting men throughout the area soared. For his effect on morale. Bull Halsey was worth a division of fast battle ships...