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(born Oct. 30, 1882, Elizabeth, N.J., U.S. — died Aug. 16, 1959, Fishers Island, N.Y.) U.S. admiral. After graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy, he commanded a destroyer in World War I. He became a naval aviator in 1935, and in 1940 he was promoted to vice admiral. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, his fleet was at sea; the only U.S. naval presence in the Pacific for months, it carried out surprise attacks against Japanese-held islands in the Marshall and Gilbert islands. A leading exponent of carrier-based aircraft, he became famous for his daring and imaginative tactics. As commander of the South Pacific naval forces, he was instrumental in the Japanese defeat at Guadalcanal. In 1944 he became commander of the 3rd Fleet, leading his carrier task force in brilliant air strikes. He was responsible for finding and destroying the Japanese fleet at the Battle of Leyte Gulf. He was promoted to fleet admiral in 1945 and retired in 1947.

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(1882–1959) fleet admiral, U.S. Navy, World War II

Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Halsey graduated from the Naval Academy in 1904. In the 1930s, he learned to fly and became a leading advocate of carrier warfare. During the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, he was at sea, commanding the carrier Enterprise. In the spring of 1942, he helped orchestrate a series of carrier raids in the Pacific against enemy strongholds, including the famous James Doolittle bomber attack on Tokyo. Later, as commander of the South Pacific theater in 1942–44, he directed forces that captured Guadalcanal, Bougainville, and several other key islands in the Solomons.

During and after the Battle of Leyte Gulf (October 1944), Halsey was criticized for sailing his fleet northward in pursuit of enemy decoy carriers and leaving the San Bernardino Straits open to defended attack by a main enemy force. Later that year, he was again questioned for heading into a typhoon and losing three ships. By war's end, however, the aggressive commander, known as “Bull” Halsey, was hailed as a popular hero, awarded a fifth star, and promoted to the rank of fleet admiral.

In retirement, Halsey often defended his Leyte Gulf decision, claiming that under the circumstances it was the best of all options. Above all, he was an energetic and demanding leader, who had the ability to invigorate the U.S. Navy's fighting spirit when most required.

[See also Guadalcanal, Battle of; Navy, U.S.: 1899–1945; Navy Combat Branches: Surface Forces; World War II, U.S. Naval Operations in: The Pacific.]

Bibliography

  • E. B. Potter, Bull Halsey, 1985
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Halsey, William Frederick, Jr. (1882-1959) naval officer, born in Elizabeth, New Jersey. His early interest in naval aviation led to his playing a prominent role in the South Pacific during World War II, particularly in the capture of the Solomon Islands, as commander, South Pacific Force and South Pacific Area (1942). He also led raids against Japanese positions in the Marshall and Gilbert Islands and on Wake Island (1942). He was later criticized for his actions at Leyte Gulf (1944) and elsewhere; heavy losses sometimes resulted from his dogged determination (he was nicknamed “Bull”). Halsey was aboard the Missouri, the flagship of his fleet, when the Japanese surrender was formalized (1945). His World War I service was aboard destroyers; escorting convoys and patrolling for German submarines; his ships never saw combat. Early in his career Halsey was briefly naval attaché in Germany and Scandinavia (1922-24).

During the Battle of Midway (1942), Halsey was hospitalized with a severe skin inflammation, so he missed this decisive turning point in the Pacific. He called his absence from Midway “the most grievous disappointment of my career.”

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The popular and aggressive American naval officer Fleet Admiral William Frederick Halsey (1882-1959) commanded major Pacific Fleet units during World War II.

William F. Halsey was born in Elizabeth, N.J., on Oct. 30, 1882. The son of a Navy captain, he entered the Naval Academy in 1900. Most of Halsey's early sea duty was with destroyers. At the age of 51 he began flight training and after graduation took command of the aircraft carrier Saratoga. In 1938 he was given command of Carrier Division 2 and was promoted the following year to vice admiral and appointed commander of the Aircraft Battle Force.

Because the U.S. Navy's battleships had been crippled in the Japanese attack on the naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1941, Halsey's carrier force became the heart of the American fleet in World War II. Early in 1942 he led it on daring strikes against Japanese bases that culminated in a raid on Tokyo. While the damage inflicted by these raids was minor, they did much to bolster American morale and to make Halsey a popular hero.

On Oct. 18, 1942, Halsey was appointed commander of the South Pacific Area. He thus commanded America's initial Pacific offensive, the battle for Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. Operations there had reached a critical stage, and the appointment of Halsey, with his reputation for audacity and aggressiveness, was welcomed by the beleaguered Marine and Navy units. He lived up to his reputation, summarizing his strategy in a simple order to his carriers on October 26:"Attack - Repeat - Attack." In a series of fierce engagements Japanese naval forces in the area were defeated and American victory on Guadalcanal assured. President Franklin D. Roosevelt promptly promoted Halsey to admiral.

Throughout 1943 and early 1944 Halsey commanded naval operations around the Solomons, overrunning or isolating Japanese garrisons. On June 15, 1944, he was relieved as commander of the South Pacific Area and made commander of the 3d Fleet. This force was the most powerful aggregation of naval striking power in American history.

Halsey and his staff began planning for reoccupation of the Philippines. Unfortunately, Halsey's operational performance failed to match his good planning. During the crucial battle for Leyte Gulf, he sent his main force after a Japanese decoy fleet; this allowed powerful enemy surface units to penetrate the Philippine Sea. Only frantic resistance by a small escort carrier group and a sudden Japanese retreat saved the American landing forces from major damage.

Two months later the admiral's reputation suffered another blow when he maneuvered directly into the path of a typhoon, losing three destroyers. In early summer 1945 Halsey again maneuvered the fleet into the path of a typhoon. Despite this error he retained command until the end of the war, directing the final, successful air and sea attacks upon the Japanese home islands.

Following Japan's surrender in 1945 Halsey was promoted to fleet admiral and assigned what were essentially public relations duties until his retirement in April 1947. In subsequent years he held several business positions and led an unsuccessful drive to raise funds for the preservation of the carrier Enterprise. He died on Aug. 16, 1959.

Further Reading

William F. Halsey and J. Bryan III, Admiral Halsey's Story (1947), contains material on the admiral's early career but is of limited value for the World War II period. Hans Christian Adamson and George F. Kosco, Halsey's Typhoons (1967), summarizes the problems he encountered in the latter stages of the war. Perhaps the best concise history of naval operations in World War II is Samuel Eliot Morison, The Two Ocean War (1963). The role of American aircraft carriers in that conflict is admirably analyzed in Clark G. Reynolds, The Fast Carriers:The Forging of an Air Navy (1968).

Additional Sources

Halsey, William Frederick, Admiral Halsey's story, New York:Da Capo Press, 1976.

Merrill, James M., A Sailor's admiral:a biography of William F. Halsey, New York:Crowell, 1976.

Potter, E. B. (Elmer Belmont), Bull Halsey, Annapolis, Md.:Naval Institute Press, 1985.

 
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Halsey, William Frederick, Jr. (Bull Halsey) (hôl'sē), 1882-1959, American admiral, b. Elizabeth, N.J., grad. Annapolis, 1904. In World War II he led (Jan., 1942) a spectacular carrier raid against the Marshall Islands and Gilbert Islands, and during the campaign in the Solomon Islands he assumed command of the South Pacific area. As commander (1944-45) of the U.S. 3d Fleet, he commanded the naval action in the Philippines, won the battle of Leyte Gulf (Oct., 1944) and led (July, 1945) the seaborne bombardment of Japan. He was promoted (Nov., 1945) to fleet admiral (five-star admiral) and retired in 1947. His experiences in World War II were published as Admiral Halsey's Story (1947).

Bibliography

See J. M. Merrill, A Sailor's Admiral (1976).

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An admiral of the twentieth century. Halsey commanded United States fleets in the Pacific Ocean during World War II and achieved notable victories at the island of Guadalcanal and on the Japanese coast.

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    William Frederick Halsey, Jr.
    October 30, 1882(1882-10-30) – August 20, 1959 (aged 76)
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    Nickname "Bull" and "Bill"
    Place of birth Elizabeth, New Jersey
    Place of burial Arlington National Cemetery
    Allegiance  United States of America
    Service/branch United States Department of the Navy Seal.svg United States Navy
    Years of service 1904–1947 (44 Years)
    Rank US-O11 insignia.svgFleet Admiral
    Commands held USS Shaw
    USS Wickes
    USS Dale
    USS Saratoga
    NAS Pensacola
    South Pacific Area
    United States Third Fleet
    Battles/wars World War I
    **First Battle of the Atlantic
    World War II
    **Pacific War
    Awards Navy Cross
    Navy Distinguished Service Medal
    Army Distinguished Service Medal

    Fleet Admiral William Frederick Halsey, Jr., USN, (October 30, 1882 – August 16, 1959)[1] (called "Bill Halsey" and sometimes known as "Bull" Halsey), was a U.S. Naval officer and the commander of the United States Third Fleet during part of the Pacific War against Japan. Earlier, he had commanded the South Pacific Theater during desperate times.

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    Early years

    Halsey was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on October 30, 1882, the son of Captain William F. Halsey, Sr., USN. After waiting two years for an appointment to the United States Naval Academy, young Halsey decided to study medicine at the University of Virginia and then to get into the Navy as a doctor. He chose that university because his best friend, Karl Osterhause, was there. Years later, Halsey admitted that he learned little during his one and only year at Virginia, but he had a wonderful time.[2]

    Halsey graduated in 1904 from the Naval Academy with several athletic honors, and he spent his early service years in battleships and torpedo boats. The United States Navy was expanding at that time, and the Navy was short on officers; Halsey was one of the few who was promoted directly from Ensign to full Lieutenant, skipping the rank of Lieutenant (junior grade). Torpedoes and torpedo boats became specialties of his, and he commanded the First Group of the Atlantic Fleet's Torpedo Flotilla in 1912 through 1913, and also several torpedo boats and destroyers during the 1910s and 1920s. Lieutenant Commander Halsey's World War I service, including command of USS Shaw in 1918, was sufficiently distinguished to earn a Navy Cross (which was not a medal for life & death valor, as it later became).

    Inter-war years

    From 1922 through 1925, Halsey served as Naval Attache in Berlin, Germany, and commanded USS Dale during a European cruise. During 1930–1932, Captain Halsey led two destroyer squadrons, then studied at the Naval War College in the mid-1930s. Prior to assuming command of an aircraft carrier, he undertook aviator instruction, as required by Federal law, but he took the more difficult Naval Aviator (pilot) course rather than merely the Aviation Observer program. He insisted on taking the full twelve week course, and he was the last one of his class to graduate with his wings as a pilot. He then commanded the large aircraft carrier USS Saratoga, and also the Naval Air Station at Pensacola, Florida. Capt. Halsey was promoted to Rear Admiral in 1938, commanding Carrier Divisions for the next three years, and, as a Vice Admiral, also serving as the USN overall Commander of the Aircraft Battle Force.

    World War II

    Vice Admiral Halsey was at sea in his flagship, USS Enterprise, during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Upon learning of the Japanese attack, he was rumored to have remarked, "Before we're through with 'em, the Japanese language will only be spoken in hell."[3] Halsey's contempt for the Japanese was well-displayed throughout the war to the officers and sailors under his command in very successful campaigns to boost morale. One such example was the slogan attributed to Halsey, "Kill Japs, Kill Japs, Kill More Japs!" The more of the little yellow bastards you kill, the quicker we go home! [3][4][5] During the first six months of the war, his carrier task force took part in raids on enemy-held islands and in the Doolittle Raid on Japan. By this time he had adopted the slogan, "Hit hard, hit fast, hit often."

    Beached by an irritating skin disease, Halsey suffered from it throughout the majority of his life. Just before the Battle of Midway, he lent his chief of staff, Captain Miles Browning, to his hand-picked successor, Rear Admiral Raymond Spruance, who, under the overall command of Rear Admiral Fletcher, and despite difficulties from Browning[citation needed], led the American carrier forces to a victory against the Japanese Combined Fleet.

    Halsey took command in the South Pacific Area in mid-October 1942, at a critical stage of the Guadalcanal Campaign. After Guadalcanal was secured in February 1943, Admiral Halsey's forces spent the rest of the year battling up the Solomon Islands Chain to Bougainville, then isolated the Japanese fortress at Rabaul by capturing positions in the Bismarck Archipelago.

    Admiral Halsey left the South Pacific in May 1944, as the war surged toward the Philippines and Japan. From September 1944 to January 1945, he led the U.S. Third Fleet during campaigns to take the Palaus, Leyte and Luzon, and on many raids on Japanese bases, including on the shores of Formosa, China, and Vietnam.

    Leyte Gulf

    Halsey

    In October 1944, amphibious forces of the U.S. Seventh Fleet carried out major landings on the island of Leyte in the Central Philippines. Halsey's Third Fleet was assigned to cover and support Seventh Fleet operations around Leyte. In response to the invasion, the Japanese launched a vast operation (known as 'Sho-Go') involving almost all their surviving fleet, and aimed at destroying the invasion shipping in Leyte Gulf. A force built around a relatively weak group of Japanese aircraft carriers (Admiral Ozawa's 'Northern Force') was meant to lure the covering U.S. forces away from the Gulf while two other forces (the 'Southern' and 'Center' Forces) built around a total of 7 battleships and 16 cruisers broke through to the beachhead and attacked the invasion shipping. This operation was to bring about the Battle for Leyte Gulf, the largest naval battle of the Second World War and, by some criteria, the largest naval battle in history.

    The Center Force commanded by Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita was located and attacked by American picket submarines on 23 October, and on 24 October, in the Battle of the Sibuyan Sea, Third Fleet's aircraft attacked it, sinking the giant battleship Musashi and damaging other ships. Kurita turned westwards, towards his base, but later reversed course and headed again for San Bernardino Strait through which he intended to pass to reach Leyte Gulf. By this stage, the carriers of Ozawa's decoy Northern Force had been located by Halsey's aircraft. Halsey made the momentous decision to take all his available strength northwards on the night of 24–25 October to strike the Japanese carrier force on the following morning. He resolved to leave San Bernardino Strait entirely unguarded. As C. Vann Woodward wrote, "not so much as a picket destroyer was left".

    Halsey had swallowed the bait. He also failed to advise Admiral Kinkaid and Seventh Fleet of his decision. However, the Seventh Fleet intercepted an organizational message from Halsey to his own task group commanders, which led Kinkaid and his staff to believe that Halsey was taking his three available carrier groups northwards, but would be leaving Task Force 34—a powerful battleship and cruiser force—guarding San Bernardino Strait.

    Despite ominous aerial reconnaissance reports on the night of 24–25 October, Halsey continued to assume that the approaching Japanese Center Force had been neutralized, and he continued to take his entire available strength northwards, away from San Bernardino Strait and Leyte Gulf.

    Halsey with VAdm. John S. McCain, Sr.

    As a result, when Kurita's powerful Center Force emerged from San Bernardino on the morning of 25 October, they found not one Allied ship to oppose them. Advancing down the coast of the island of Samar towards their objective—the invasion shipping in Leyte Gulf—they took Seventh Fleet's escort carriers and their screening ships entirely by surprise. In the desperate and unequal Battle off Samar which followed, Kurita's ships destroyed one of the small escort carriers and three ships of the carriers' screen, and damaged many USN ships, but the heroic resistance of the escort carrier groups took a heavy toll on Kurita's ships, and his nerves. He decided to withdraw towards San Bernardino Strait and the west without achieving anything further.

    When the Seventh Fleet's escort carriers found themselves under attack from the Center Force, Halsey began to receive a succession of desperate calls from Kinkaid asking for immediate assistance off Samar. For over two hours Halsey turned a deaf ear to these calls. Then, shortly after 10:00 hours,[6] an anxious message was received—"Turkey trots to water. Where is repeat where is Task Force 34? The world wonders"—from Admiral Chester Nimitz, the CINCPAC, Halsey's immediate superior, referring to the battleship–cruiser force thought to have been covering San Bernardino Strait, and thus the Seventh Fleet's northern flank. The tail end of this message was intended as padding designed to confuse enemy decoders, but was mistakenly left in the message when it was handed to Halsey. The vaguely insulting tone of the message threw Halsey into a screaming fit.[6]

    Halsey turned the battleships and their escorts southwards at 11:15, more than an hour after he received the signal from Nimitz. This cost Task Force 34 more than two hours to make it back to the position it had been when Nimitz's signal was received.[6] As the battle force came south it slowed to 12 knots so the battleships could top up the destroyers with fuel, incurring another two and a half hour delay.[6] By then, it was too late for Task Force 34 either to assist the Seventh Fleet's escort carrier groups or to prevent Kurita's force from making its escape.

    This succession of actions on Halsey's part during 24 and 25 October was thought by some observers to have damaged his reputation. Professor Samuel Morison of Harvard University, cited as the country's most prolific naval historian[7], called the Third Fleet run to the north "Halsey's Blunder".[7] Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy remarked afterwards "We didn't lose the war for that but I don't know why we didn't".[8] The operation has derisively been called "The Battle of Bull's Run".[9]

    Typhoon

    After the Leyte Gulf engagement, Third Fleet was confronted with another powerful enemy in mid-December—Typhoon Cobra (also known as "Halsey's Typhoon"). While conducting operations off the Philippines, the force remained on station rather than avoiding a major storm, which sank three destroyers and inflicted damage on many other ships. Some 800 men were lost, in addition to 146 aircraft. A Navy court of inquiry found that while Halsey had committed an error of judgement in sailing into the typhoon, it stopped short of unambiguously recommending sanction.[10]

    In January 1945, Halsey passed command of his fleet to Admiral Spruance (whereupon its designation changed to 'Fifth Fleet'). Halsey resumed command of Third Fleet in late-May 1945 and retained it until the end of the war. In early June 1945 Halsey again sailed the fleet into the path of a typhoon, and while ships sustained crippling damage, none were lost. Six lives were lost and 75 planes were lost or destroyed, with almost 70 badly damaged. Again a Navy court of inquiry was convened, and it suggested that Halsey be reassigned, but Admiral Nimitz recommended otherwise due to Halsey's prior service.[10]

    He was present when Japan formally surrendered on the deck of his flagship, USS Missouri, on September 2, 1945.

    Post-war

    Halsey was promoted to Fleet Admiral in December 1945, and retired from active duty in March 1947. Halsey died, August 20, 1959, on Fishers Island, NY[11] and was interred in Arlington National Cemetery. His wife, Frances Grandy Halsey (1887-1968), is buried with him. Halsey Minor, a descendant, is named after him.[12]

    Dates of rank

    Ensign Lieutenant, Junior Grade Lieutenant Lieutenant Commander Commander Captain
    O-1 O-2 O-3 O-4 O-5 O-6
    US Navy O1 insignia.svg US Navy O2 insignia.svg US Navy O3 insignia.svg US Navy O4 insignia.svg US Navy O5 insignia.svg US Navy O6 insignia.svg
    February 2, 1906 February 2, 1909 February 2, 1909 August 29, 1916 February 1, 1918 February 10, 1927
    Rear Admiral (lower half) Rear Admiral (upper half) Vice Admiral Admiral Fleet Admiral
    O-7 O-8 O-9 O-10 O-11
    US Navy O7 insignia.svg US Navy O8 insignia.svg US Navy O9 insignia.svg US Navy O10 insignia.svg US Navy O11 insignia.svg
    Never Held March 1, 1938 June 13, 1940 November 18, 1942 December 11, 1945

    Halsey never held the rank of Lieutenant Junior Grade, as he was appointed a full Lieutenant after three years of service as an Ensign. For administrative reasons, Halsey's naval record states he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant (junior grade) and Lieutenant on the same day.

    At the time of Halsey's promotion to Rear Admiral, the United States Navy did not maintain a one-star (Commodore) rank. Halsey was therefore promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral of the line (upper half; two-star) from captain.

    Awards and decorations

    Navy Cross
    Navy Cross ribbon.svg Navy Cross
    Gold award star
    Gold award star
    Gold award star
    Navy Distinguished Service ribbon.svg
    		 Navy Distinguished Service Medal with three gold stars
    Distinguished Service Medal ribbon.svg Army Distinguished Service Medal
    NavyPres.gif Navy Presidential Unit Citation
    Mexican Service Medal ribbon.svg Mexican Service Medal
    Bronze service star
    World War I Victory Medal ribbon.svg
    		 World War I Victory Medal with Destroyer Clasp
    American Defense Service ribbon.svg American Defense Service Medal with Fleet Clasp
    American Campaign Medal ribbon.svg American Campaign Medal
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaign ribbon.svg Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal
    World War II Victory Medal ribbon.svg World War II Victory Medal
    National Defense Service Medal ribbon.svg National Defense Service Medal
    Phliber rib.png Philippine Liberation Medal with two stars
    Order BritEmp rib.png Knight Grand Cross of the British Empire

    Honors

    In popular culture

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    Dennis Weaver with James Cagney
    as Admiral Halsey in The Gallant Hours (1960)

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    Notes

    1. ^ "Halsey", ArlingtonCemetery.net.
    2. ^ Maurer, David A. (March 14, 1999). "Naval hero's days at UVa were less than smooth sailing". Daily Progress (Charlottesville, VA). http://www.stat.virginia.edu/maurer1.html. 
    3. ^ a b Bradley, James. Flyboys. 2004, page 138
    4. ^ Evans, Thomas. Sea of Thunder. 2006, page 1
    5. ^ Fussell, Paul. Wartime. 1990, page 119
    6. ^ a b c d Willmott, H. P.. "Six, The Great Day of Wrath". The Battle of Leyte Gulf: The Last Fleet Action. Indiana University Press. pp. 192–197. ISBN 0253345286, 9780253345288. 
    7. ^ a b Potter, E. B. (2003). Bull Halsey. Naval Institute Press. pp. 376–380. ISBN 1591146917, 9781591146919. 
    8. ^ "LEAHY FEARED LOSS OF PACIFIC AT LEYTE; Halsey's Pursuit of Japanese Called 'Little War of His Own'". New York Times. October 31, 1953. pp. 19. http://select.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F10E13F73E5A107B93C3AA178BD95F478585F9. Retrieved 2008-11-30. 
    9. ^ Higham, Robin D. S. (2003). 100 Years of Air Power & Aviation. Texas A&M University Press. pp. 192–194. ISBN 1585442410, 9781585442416. 
    10. ^ a b Melton, Sea Cobra
    11. ^ http://www.kxmb.com/News/418118.asp
    12. ^ http://www.readthehook.com/stories/2008/11/27/COVER-amalg.aspx
    13. ^ Sudsbury, Elretta Sudsbury (1967). Jackrabbits to Jets: The History of North Island, San Diego, California. Neyenesch Printers, Inc. 
    14. ^ "Adm. William 'Bull' Halsey (Character) from Midway (1976)". IMDb. http://imdb.com/character/ch0034858/. 
    15. ^ TV.com Episode #40 Summary

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