Admiral william f halsey biography
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William Halsey Jr.
United States Navy admiral (1882–1959)
"William Halsey" redirects here. For other uses, see William Halsey (disambiguation).
William Frederick "Bull" Halsey Jr. (30 October 1882 – 16 August 1959) was an American Navyadmiral during World War II. He is one of kvartet officers to have attained the rank of five-star fleet admiral of the United States Navy, the others being William Leahy, Ernest J. King, and Chester W. Nimitz.
Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Halsey graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1904. He served in the Great White Fleet and, during World War I, commanded the destroyerUSS Shaw. He took command of the aircraft carrierUSS Saratoga in 1935 after completing a course in naval aviation, and was promoted to the rank of rear admiral in 1938. At the start of the War in the Pacific (1941–1945), Halsey commanded the task force centered on the carrier USS Enterprise in a series of raids against Japanese-held targets.
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Admiral William F. “Bull” Halsey
By Glenn Barnett
Just before dawn, the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise turned into the wind to launch her planes. Nervous and excited pilots roared into the darkness of the vast Pacific toward the unsuspecting Japanese. The “Big E” would repeat this scene many times during the war, but this morning, January 31, 1942, in the Marshall Islands was the first time since Pearl Harbor that an American surface vessel had struck an offensive blow.;
On the flag bridge, watching the planes disappear into the gloom, stood Rear Admiral William F. Halsey, overall commander of the U.S. Navy’s Task Force 16. He would still be on the bridge, chain smoking and chewing his nails, when the last pilot returned in the early afternoon. Then he turned tail and raced back to Hawaii. Angry Japanese bombers pursued him ineffectually until dark.
The quick strike and rapid withdrawal became Halsey’s trademark in the early days of the war. Delighted sailors called his hurri
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Biography
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William Frederick "Bull" Halsey, Jr.
Fleet Admiral, U.S. Navy
The Early Years
William Frederick Halsey, Jr. was born in Elizabeth, NJ, on 30 October 1882, the son of William F. Halsey, Sr., Captain, U.S. Navy. His father was a descendant of Senator Rufus King, an American lawyer, politician, diplomat, and Federalist candidate for both Vice President (1804 and 1808) and President of the United States (1816). Young Halsey attended the Pingry School, a highly-rated boy's school that provided both scholastic training and moral education.
After waiting two years for an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy (his father was a USNA graduate, class of 1872), Halsey Jr. decided to study medicine at the University of Virginia (UVA) and then get into the Navy as a doctor. He chose UVA because his best friend, Karl Osterhause, was a student there. Years later, Halsey admitted that he learned little during his one and only year at Virginia; but he had a wonderful