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7. Juni 2007 · William F. Halsey was a sailor born and bred. His heart was Navy blue and gold, and it pumped salt water each of his seventy-six years. As a first to last combatant of the Pacific War, he launched aircraft into the Sunday surprise on December 7, 1941, and forty-five months later stood witness to the end of Imperial Japan on the deck of the battleship Missouri.
William Frederick " Bull" Halsey, Jr. est un amiral de la flotte de la marine des États-Unis. Il a été le seul amiral de la marine américaine ayant exercé un commandement à la mer au cours de la guerre du Pacifique à avoir été promu au grade d'amiral de la Flotte.
William Frederick Halsey, Jr. (nacido el 30 de octubre de 1882 en Elizabeth, estado de Nueva Jersey, y fallecido el 20 de agosto de 1959) fue un reputado almirante de la Armada de los Estados Unidos, que estuvo al mando de la Tercera Flota durante la mayor parte de la Guerra en el frente del Pacífico. Datos rápidos Información personal ...
9. Jan. 2024 · William F. Halsey was Commander of the South Pacific Fleet and the war's most colorful admiral. C.L. Sulzberger, in his book The American Heritage Picture History of World War II (1966), p. 335; Halsey was a navy junior who spent three boyhood years at the academy while his father was an instructor there. His application for appointment was ...
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 ...
Behind Admiral Nimitz are (left to right) General Douglas MacArthur, Admiral William F. Halsey and Rear Admiral Forrest Sherman. Other soldiers and sailors in the background are unidentified. The ceremony took place aboard the USS Missouri. The photograph was given to Colonel Westray B. Boyce during her tour of the Pacific Theatre in the Fall of 1945.
Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey Jr. lived up to his nickname, “Bull.”. He was aggressive and reveled in giving profanity-laced quotes to the papers. The New York Times called him the “fighting Admiral.” 1Time magazine dubbed him a “knuckle-swinger.” 2 But he was not rash. He knew when and how to take risks and how to fight hard.
