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While he has never flown a modern, fast combat plane, and has never flown on or off a carrier's deck, Bull Halsey has more of the patina of the flyer than most others of the Navy's Johnny-come-latelies to aviation-and shows his age less...
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...
Four or five times a day, Annapolisman Kiefer would get on the bullhorn and plead with his flight-deck crew to hurry up or "that admiral over there will give me hell." When the ship passed through the Canal Zone last fall, he saw to it that nearly all of his 3,000 men got shore liberty at the entrance or the exit. Some had to be carried aboard, but every man made it back to the ship. When the Ti set out from San Diego, only one man deserted...
...injury (a fellow pilot dove a seaplane at him and hit the arm with a wingtip float). On the Ti they used to say of Dixie: "He's got so much metal in him the ship's compass follows him when he walks across the deck...
...Commodore. The boss of this crack crew is a ruddy, restive 50-year-old with twinkling china-blue eyes and eloquent white brows, who is more at home in a diving suit or on a burning deck than behind his Washington desk. No Annapolis man, Commodore Sullivan studied architecture at M.I.T., entered the Navy in World War I and stayed...