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William Frederick "Bull" Halsey Jr. (30 October 1882 – 16 August 1959) was an American Navy admiral during World War II.He is one of four 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.
Under his contract agreement with Cagney-Montgomery Productions, Admiral Halsey would receive 10 percent of the profits from the motion picture. During a visit with his son, William F. Halsey III, in La Jolla, California, Admiral Halsey went to Camp Pendleton where The Gallant Hours was being filmed (pictured). William F. Halsey III later ...
Typhoon Cobra, also known as the Typhoon of 1944 or Halsey's Typhoon (named after Admiral William Halsey Jr.), was the United States Navy designation for a powerful tropical cyclone that struck the United States Pacific Fleet in December 1944, during World War II. The storm sank three destroyers, killed 790 sailors, damaged 9 other warships ...
Admiral William Halsey's chief aerologist (a previous term for meteorologist), Commander George Kosco, believed the typhoon was closer, but thought the mission could avoid it by continuing to head ...
William Halsey was born in Charleston, South Carolina.His talent was evident at an early age, and he was encouraged by his mother, Eleanor Loeb Halsey. [1] His first instructor was the local artist Elizabeth O'Neill Verner, who had studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and was one of the leading artists in the Charleston Renaissance. [2]
Wickliffe Presbyterian Church is a historic church at 111 13th Avenue in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States. It is in Richardsonian Romanesque style and was designed by William Halsey Wood. It was built in 1889. [1] The 13th Avenue church replaced a church used previously by the congregation at 2 Wickliffe Street, in Newark.
Nimitz (left) and Halsey in 1943 "The world wonders" is a phrase which rose to notoriety following [a] its use during World War II when it appeared as part of a decoded message sent by Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet, to Admiral William Halsey Jr. at the height of the Battle of Leyte Gulf on October 25, 1944. [2]
The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal [a] took place from 12 to 15 November 1942 and was the decisive engagement in a series of naval battles between Allied (primarily American) and Imperial Japanese forces during the months-long Guadalcanal campaign in the Solomon Islands during World War II.