[Gator101]

Three destroyers were eventually capsized by Typhoon Cobra, a dozen more ships were seriously damaged, more than 150 planes were destroyed, and 793 men lost their lives. It was the Navy’s worst “defeat” of World War II.

Aside from Gerald Ford, that's an interesting sentence. The author calls this the Navy's "worst 'defeat'"? Uh, what about Pearl Harbor (over 2000 sailors and soldiers killed) or even the Battle of Savo Island in '42 (over 1000 allied sailors lost). This guy needs to do a little research before saying something like that.

[DMZFrank]

Or Operation Drumbeat, the U-Boat massacre off the Eastern Seaboard where a couple dozen U-Boats sunk 500 ships in a 6 month period starting in June of 1942.

[JSteff]

"This guy needs to do a little research before saying something like that."

The NY Times has a history of showing you do NOT need to do any research before having an article posted.

[neverdem]

Three destroyers were eventually capsized by Typhoon Cobra, a dozen more ships were seriously damaged, more than 150 planes were destroyed, and 793 men lost their lives. It was the Navy’s worst “defeat” of World War II.

"Aside from Gerald Ford, that's an interesting sentence. The author calls this the Navy's "worst 'defeat'"? Uh, what about Pearl Harbor (over 2000 sailors and soldiers killed) or even the Battle of Savo Island in '42 (over 1000 allied sailors lost). This guy needs to do a little research before saying something like that."

I'll disagree. If Halsey did that in peacetime with all of those losses, he would have been sacked. Gratuitous insults to the NY Times advances nothing and yields no insight. If you want to know what they are thinking, they have to be read.