Word: flagship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once again Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey performed for the photographers. Aboard his flagship, the mighty Missouri, he used a bayonet to slice a cake iced like a Japanese flag. But he was unhappy. He was about to go into Japan, and almost everybody expected him to ride the Emperor's white horse when he got there...
...Cabinet meeting, and Navy Secretary James Forrestal and Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King presented him a fine table model of the battleship Missouri, flagship of the U.S. Third Fleet...
...Morris brought along his wife, baby, and Negro maid Sal; to keep his crew happy, he let them bring their wives too. This domestically blissful squadron cruised leisurely about the Mediterranean, then settled down to a blockade of Tripoli. During the siege a seaman's wife on the flagship Chesapeake bore a child in the forecastle. When the Commodore's wife began expecting, Morris lifted the blockade and sailed off to Malta so that she could be delivered in style...
...strikes by Admiral William F. Halsey's Third Fleet against northern Honshu and Hokkaido had failed to lure out the remnants of the Japanese air force. The weather over Hokkaido was foul; the low overcast blocked the efforts of flyers from Vice Admiral John S. McCain's flagship Shangri-La (and her many sister carriers) to find the fields where the Jap planes were supposed to be skulking. Not a single Kamikaze roared over the fleet...
...Coast of Asia. In January, when the Third Fleet set out again, I left the Ticonderoga for the Essex, Admiral Sher man's group flagship. January 12 was a great day. By 10:30 in the morning the Ticonderoga had got its first "well done" from Admiral Sherman - her planes had sighted a seven-ship convoy off French Indo-China, had sunk all. The fleet sank 41 ships totaling 127,000 tons that day. Said Sherman: "That Ticonderoga is a real ship." Three days later the Ti pilots shot down four Kamikaze planes headed for the Essex...