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To: bort

#10 Admiral William ‘Bull’ Halsey sailed into a hurricane
Excerpt: three destroyers capsized and sank with 790 lives lost. Nine other warships were damaged, and over 100 aircraft were wrecked or washed overboard. The aircraft carrier Monterey was forced to battle a serious fire that was caused by a plane hitting a bulkhead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Cobra

He kept his job.


119 posted on 04/03/2020 6:56:06 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....He the master will plant more cotton for the democrat party)
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To: minnesota_bound

Halsey also blundered horribly on October 25th, 1944 when he took his entire fleet with him to chase empty Japanese carriers while Kurita led three battleships and a huge supporting fleet to assault the support ships at Luzon. It was only the incredible bravery of the destroyer and Destroyer escort captains and the determined courage of their air component that saved MacArthur’s landing.


121 posted on 04/03/2020 7:02:30 PM PDT by Chainmail (Remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence)
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