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Admiral William Frederick Halsey by Ruben Pang
personality profile 69 Admiral William Frederick Halsey by Ruben Pang IntRoductIon Early Years fleet admiral William halsey was born in elizabeth, frederick halsey (30 october new Jersey to a family of naval 1882 – 16 august 1959) was a tradition. his father was a captain united states navy (USN) officer in the USN. hasley naturally who served in both the first and followed in his footsteps, second World Wars (WWi and enrolling in the united states WWII). he was commander of (US) naval academy in 1900.3 the south pacific area during as a cadet, he held several the early years of the pacific extracurricular positions. he War against Japan and became played full-back for the football http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Halsey.JPG commander of the third fleet team, became president of the Fleet Admiral William Frederick Halsey for the remainder of the war, athletic association, and as during which he supported first classman “had his name general douglas macarthur’s engraved on the thompson advance on the philippines in trophy cup as the midshipman 1944. over the course of war, who had done most during halsey earned the reputation the year for the promotion of of being one of america’s most athletics.”4 aggressive fighting admirals, often driven by instinct over from 1907 to 1909, he gained intellect. however, his record substantial maritime experience also includes unnecessary losses while sailing with the “great at leyte gulf and damage to his White fleet” in a global third fleet during the typhoon circumnavigation.5 in 1909, of 1944 or “hasley’s typhoon,” halsey received instruction in the violent tempest that sank torpedoes with the reserve three destroyers and swept torpedo flotilla in charleston, away 146 naval aircraft. -
Reminiscences of Vice Admiral Andrew Mcburney Jackson, Jr. US
INDEX to Series of Interviews with Vice Admiral Andrew McBurney JACKSON, Jr. U. S. Navy (Retired) ADEN: p. 274-5; AEC (Atomic Energy Commission): Jackson to AEC (Military Application Division), p. 154-5; works with Admirals Hooper and Withington, p. 157; setting up Sandia base, p. 158-9; defense of AEC budget before Congressional Committees, p. 162-3; p. 170-1; discussion of clearances at AEC p. 165-6; p. 167-8; AIR GROUP 8: Jackson ordered (1943) to re-form air group p. 93; duty on INTREPID, p. 96; component parts in Norfolk area, p. 96-7; Air Group 5 substituted for Air Group 8 - Marshall Islands operation, p. 103 ff; Air Group 8 put aboard BUNKER HILL when INTREPID goes home for repairs, p. 105; ANDERSON, Admiral George: p. 313 p. 315; p. 321; ARAB-ISRAELI HOSTILITY: p. 298-9; ARAMCO: p. 279-80; ATOM BOMB: an exercise with aircraft carrier, p. 182-3; AUSTIN, VADM Bernard (Count): President of the Naval War College (1961), p. 299-300; BAHREIN: p. 253-4; p. 280; p. 282-4; BALL, The Hon. George: U. S. Representative to the United Nations, p. 377; BATON ROUGE, La.: family home of Adm. Jackson, p. 2-4; BETHPAGE, N.Y.: location of Grumman plant on Long Island - see entries under BuAir; BOGAN, VADM Gerald F.: succeeds Adm. Montgomery as skipper of BUNKER HILL, p. 118; BuAIR: Jackson ordered to Bureau (June 1941) to fighter desk (Class Desk A), p. 70 ff; plane types, p. 73-4 ff; his great desire to go with Fleet after Pearl Harbor, p. -
December 2003
December 2003 THE JERSEYMAN To our United States Armed Forces From the volunteers of USS NEW JERSEY (BB-62) Happy Holidays, Happy New Year, and Thank You for your service God Bless America 2 THE JERSEYMAN DECEMBER 2003 HISTORY OF U.S.S. NEW JERSEY ... “TYPHOON COBRA,” DECEMBER 18, 1944 - Thousands of US sailors serving aboard the 130 plus ships of Task Force 38, rode out a terrible storm on December 18, 1944, and it is sadly remembered today as “Typhoon Cobra.” This storm resulted in 3 capsized destroyers, the loss of 790 men, the total destruction of 146 badly needed combat aircraft, and brought crippling dam- age to many ships. Especially hard hit were the CVL’s (Light Aircraft Carriers,) and CVE’s (Escort Carriers.) At the time, USS NEW JERSEY (BB-62) was serving as fleet flagship for Task Force 38, and was under the command of Admiral William “Bull” Halsey. Today, as The Jerseyman commemorates this tragic World War 2 event, we are privileged to include stories of the storm as it was experienced by many of the sailors who were there. During our typhoon research, we were also fortunate to have had contact with Mr. Richard A. Strand, brother of lost USS SPENCE crewman Robert L. Strand. Mr. Strand has compiled an extensive amount of material about his brother’s ship. He graciously shared this information with The Jerseyman, and for many years, has offered his efforts at no cost, to the families of USS SPENCE crewmen. Along with the USS SPENCE’s history, his research contains many operating charts for the ship, and an excerpt from the Presidential Unit Citation (PUC), that USS SPENCE had received as part of Arleigh Burke’s famous “Little Beaver” Destroyer Squadron (DesRon) 23. -
INDEX of Records of the U. S. Strategic Bombing Survey; Entry 55, Carrier-Based Navy and Marine Corps Aircraft Action Reports, 1944-1945
INDEX of Records of the U. S. Strategic Bombing Survey; Entry 55, Carrier-Based Navy and Marine Corps Aircraft Action Reports, 1944-1945 (1) Task Group 12.4 Action Report of Task Group 12.4 against Wake Island, 13 June 1945 through 20 June 1945 ※Commander Task Group 12.4 (Commander Carrier Division 11). (2) Task Group 38.1 Report of Operations of Task Group 38.1 against the Japanese Empire 1 July 1945 to 15 August 1945 ※Commander Task Group 38.1 (Commander Carrier Division 3 - Rear Admiral T. L. Sprague, USN, USS Bennington, Flagship). (3) Task Group 38.4 Action Report, Commander Task Group 38.4, 2 July to 15 August 1945, Strikes against Japanese Home Islands ※Commander Task Group 38.4 (Commander Carrier Division 6, Rear Admiral A. W. Radford, US Navy, USS Yorktown, Flagship). (4) Task Group 52.1.1 Report of Capture of Okinawa Gunto, Phases I and II, 24 May 1945 to 24 June 1945 ※Commander Task Unit 52.1.1(24 May to 28 May), Commander Task Unit 32.1.1. Action Report, Capture of Okinawa Gunto, Phases 1 and 2 - 21 March 1945 to 24 May 1945 ※Commander Task Unit 52.1.1 (Support Carrier Unit 1) from 9 March 1945 to 10 May 1945 and CTG Task Unit 52.1.1 from 17 May to 24 May 1945 (Commander Carrier Division 26). (5) Task Group 52.1.2 Action Report - Capture of Okinawa Gunto, Phases 1 and 2, 21 March to 29 April 1945 ※Commander Task Unit 52.1.2 (21 March - 29 April, incl) and Commander Task Unit 51.1.2 (21-25 March, inclusive) (Commander Car-rier Division 24). -
US-China Strategic Competition in South and East China Seas
U.S.-China Strategic Competition in South and East China Seas: Background and Issues for Congress Updated September 8, 2021 Congressional Research Service https://crsreports.congress.gov R42784 U.S.-China Strategic Competition in South and East China Seas Summary Over the past several years, the South China Sea (SCS) has emerged as an arena of U.S.-China strategic competition. China’s actions in the SCS—including extensive island-building and base- construction activities at sites that it occupies in the Spratly Islands, as well as actions by its maritime forces to assert China’s claims against competing claims by regional neighbors such as the Philippines and Vietnam—have heightened concerns among U.S. observers that China is gaining effective control of the SCS, an area of strategic, political, and economic importance to the United States and its allies and partners. Actions by China’s maritime forces at the Japan- administered Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea (ECS) are another concern for U.S. observers. Chinese domination of China’s near-seas region—meaning the SCS and ECS, along with the Yellow Sea—could substantially affect U.S. strategic, political, and economic interests in the Indo-Pacific region and elsewhere. Potential general U.S. goals for U.S.-China strategic competition in the SCS and ECS include but are not necessarily limited to the following: fulfilling U.S. security commitments in the Western Pacific, including treaty commitments to Japan and the Philippines; maintaining and enhancing the U.S.-led security architecture in the Western Pacific, including U.S. -
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Review by Professor Charles Steele Department of History, United States Air Force Academy ______
A Global Forum for Naval Historical Scholarship International Journal of Naval History December 2007 Volume 6 Number 3 Bob Drury and Tom Clavin, Halsey’s Typhoon, New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2007. 322 pp., maps, illustrations, appendix, bibliography, and index. Review by Professor Charles Steele Department of History, United States Air Force Academy ______________________________________________________________________ Bob Drury and Tom Clavin’s vivid account of the killer typhoon that wreaked havoc on Admiral William F. Halsey’s Third Fleet in mid-December 1944 is more than an attempt to capture a forgotten moment in the history of the greatest naval war ever fought; it is also an effective study in leadership. Offering stirring accounts of heroism, the book is a fascinating and fast read for those interested in human behavior amid the unique stresses of conflict at sea. The authors detail stories of commanders reconciling their conflicting obligations to follow Halsey’s orders with the need to preserve their ships and crews. There are also accounts of sailors suppressing their fears and struggling to do their duties as doom surges inexorably towards them. Halsey’s Typhoon offers a wide-ranging narrative that is suitably peppered with first hand accounts, making the events that took the lives of 793 sailors seem extraordinarily personal to readers three generations removed from the event. Drury and Clavin divide the story into three “books” detailing first the status of men and equipment in Halsey’s fleet before progressing to segments recounting the storm that would sink the destroyers Hull, Spence, and Monaghan and then the rescues of less than one hundred of the approximately 900 sailors whose ships succumbed to nature’s fury. -
The Naval Way of War
The Naval Way of War Joint Military Operations Department Naval War College Today’s Purpose • Provide foundation and context for course sessions that follow • Stimulate reflection by • Navy students about your service • All students about your own organizations • U.S. military services • U.S. Civilian agencies • International navies • Provoke seminar discussion of key similarities and differences among the U.S. services, civilian agencies, and international navies • As such, this lecture provides a point of departure for the trimester The Questions • What do navies do? Why? • Where do they do it? • What do they do it with? • What is the US Navy’s organizational culture? What Do Navies Do? Navies are about movement: • Make the sea a highway for “us” allowing us to go where we want and do what we want to do (control) and/or • Make the sea a barrier to “them” preventing them from going where they want and doing what they want to do (denial) SS Dixie Arrow, sunk by U-71 off Cape Hatteras Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands (26 March 1942) (25-27 October 1942) Then, Navies can do these Things • Strategic movement of troops • Acquiring advanced bases close to the scene of action • Landing armies on a hostile shore • Supporting those armies with logistics and fires • Blockading/denying • Struggling for mastery of the local sea • Striking against operational targets The Okinawa Landing and the “Fleet that Came to Stay” (1 April 1945) • Conducting strategic fires, nuclear and conventional Frank Uhlig, Jr., How Navies Fight The Search for Constants: Theories of Sea Power Alfred Thayer Mahan – Influence of Seapower Upon History, 1660-1783 (1890) • Navies exist to protect friendly commerce; interrupt their enemies’ commerce. -
October 2004
October November December 2004 "Rest well, yet sleep lightly and hear the call, if again sounded, to provide firepower for freedom…” THE JERSEYMAN The Battle of Leyte Gulf... Sixty years ago, naval forces of the United States and Australia dealt a deadly and final blow to the Japanese Navy at Leyte Gulf. Over a four day period ranging from 23 - 26 October 1944, and in four separate engagements, the Japanese Navy lost 26 ships and the US Navy lost 6. With this issue of The Jerseyman, we present another look back at the Battle of Leyte Gulf, record some new stories, and present a few 60 year old, but “new” photos sent in by the men that were there. Our sincere thanks to all WW2 veterans, and Battle of Leyte Gulf veterans for their contributions to this issue. History also records that the Battle of Leyte Gulf was the one time in the Pacific war that Admiral William F. “Bull” Halsey, flying his flag aboard battleship USS NEW JERSEY, had a chance to take on the giant Japanese battleships IJN Musashi, and IJN Yamato. But in a controversial decision that is studied and discussed to this day, Admiral Halsey took the bait of a Japanese carrier decoy fleet, split his forces, and headed USS NEW JERSEY and the Third Fleet North. Admiral Halsey lost his chance. The greatest sea-battle victory in history fell instead to the older ships of the United States Seventh Fleet. We can only speculate on what it would have meant if Halsey’s Third Fleet had been there with the old Seventh Fleet battleships of WEST VIRGINIA, CALIFORNIA, TENNESSEE, MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, and- MISSISSIPPI, and had added the firepower from fast battleships NEW JERSEY, IOWA, MASSACHUSETTS, SOUTH DAKOTA, WASHINGTON and ALABAMA… The flag shown is on display in the museum area of the ship. -
Ike's Soldiers
Malcolm Akey Jun 24, 1924 - Sep 27, 2021 BIRTHPLACE: Wray, CO SOLDIER DETAILS DIVISION: Navy, Destroyer Escort 303 THEATER OF OPERATION: Pacific Malcolm SERVED: Sep 7, 1943 - Mar 22, 1946 Akey HONORED BY: Family of Malcolm C. Akey Navy BIOGRAPHY Volunteered for U.S. Navy. He was sworn in at New Customs Building in Denver, Colorado on September 7, 1943. He was sent home to Wray, Colorado for six days. On September 13 left Denver on train, arrived at Boot Camp in Farragut, Idaho on September 15, 1943. Six weeks training and then home for 2 weeks leave. Returned to Farragut to pick up orders for West Coast sound School. He spent three days riding in a boxcar to San Diego. December 13, 1943 entered Sonar School. He graduated (top of class) on January 15, 1944. He was transferred to Mare Island for duty assignment. He was a plank owner of USS Crowley DE 303, which was commissioned on March 25, 1944. He trained in Pearl Harbor for two months then on to Solomon Islands in the South Pacific. They escorted troop ships from Russell Islands to invasion of Peleliu and Angar and patrolled off shore until November 11, 1944. They escorted one ship with wounded Marines to Hollandia, New Guinea. They joined Task Force 38 as Escort Ship to take troops and supplies to Leyte Gulf. During the air raid, they laid smoke screen to hide the troop ships from the Jap bombers. On December 17, 18, 19, 1944, they spent 72 hours in the eye of Typhoon Cobra (also known as Halsey's Typhoon). -
Maritime Territorial and Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) Disputes Involving China: Issues for Congress
Maritime Territorial and Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) Disputes Involving China: Issues for Congress Ronald O'Rourke Specialist in Naval Affairs December 24, 2014 Congressional Research Service 7-5700 www.crs.gov R42784 Maritime Territorial and Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) Disputes Involving China Summary China’s actions for asserting and defending its maritime territorial and exclusive economic zone (EEZ) claims in the East China (ECS) and South China Sea (SCS), particularly since late 2013, have heightened concerns among observers that ongoing disputes over these waters and some of the islands within them could lead to a crisis or conflict between China and a neighboring country such as Japan, the Philippines, or Vietnam, and that the United States could be drawn into such a crisis or conflict as a result of obligations the United States has under bilateral security treaties with Japan and the Philippines. More broadly, China’s actions for asserting and defending its maritime territorial and EEZ claims have led to increasing concerns among some observers that China may be seeking to dominate or gain control of its near-seas region, meaning the ECS, the SCS, and the Yellow Sea. Chinese domination over or control of this region, or Chinese actions that are perceived as being aimed at achieving such domination or control, could have major implications for the United States, including implications for U.S.-China relations, for interpreting China’s rise as a major world power, for the security structure of the Asia-Pacific region, for the long-standing U.S. strategic goal of preventing the emergence of a regional hegemon in one part of Eurasia or another, and for two key elements of the U.S.-led international order that has operated since World War II—the non-use of force or coercion as a means of settling disputes between countries, and freedom of the seas. -
Consistent Tropical Cyclone Wind and Wave Forecasts for the U.S. Navy
AUGUST 2010 N O T E S A N D C O R R E S P O N D E N C E 1293 Consistent Tropical Cyclone Wind and Wave Forecasts for the U.S. Navy CHARLES R. SAMPSON Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, California PAUL A. WITTMANN Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center, Monterey, California HENDRIK L. TOLMAN NOAA/NCEP/Environmental Modeling Center, Camp Springs, Maryland (Manuscript received 30 October 2009, in final form 12 February 2010) ABSTRACT A new algorithm to generate wave heights consistent with tropical cyclone official forecasts from the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) has been developed. The process involves generating synthetic observa- tions from the forecast track and the 34-, 50-, and 64-kt wind radii. The JTWC estimate of the radius of maximum winds is used in the algorithm to generate observations for the forecast intensity (wind), and the JTWC-estimated radius of the outermost closed isobar is used to assign observations at the outermost extent of the tropical cyclone circulation. These observations are then interpolated to a high-resolution latitude– longitude grid covering the entire extent of the circulation. Finally, numerical weather prediction (NWP) model fields are obtained for each forecast time, the NWP model forecast tropical cyclone is removed from these fields, and the new JTWC vortex is inserted without blending zones between the vortex and the background. These modified fields are then used as input into a wave model to generate waves consistent with the JTWC forecasts. The algorithm is applied to Typhoon Yagi (2006), in anticipation of which U.S.