Time after time Admiral* William Frederick Halsey had said ... On all the ships in the Fleet, the Halsey battle cry was memorized: Hit hard, hit fast, hit often. The few times the Japs had ...

General George S. Patton Jr.—Houghton Mifflin ($3.75). ADMIRAL HALSEY’S STORY (310 pp.)—Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey and Lieut. Commander J. Bryan III—Whittlesey ($4). Admiral Halsey ...

During the last year of World War II the U.S. Navy indulged in a bit of pleasantry designed to deceive the Japanese: Admiral William F. Halsey commanded the Third Fleet, Admiral Raymond A.