To: SandRat
A competent officer whose actions suffered by being second-guessed by people who weren’t there. One can say he didn’t deserve to be side-lined after the eastern Solomon battle, but would Spruance have gotten his chance if he wasn’t?
To: DoodleDawg
A competent officer whose actions suffered by being second-guessed by people who weren’t there. One can say he didn’t deserve to be side-lined after the eastern Solomon battle, but would Spruance have gotten his chance if he wasn’t? I was about to post pretty much the same thing.
5 posted on
03/22/2017 7:26:40 AM PDT by
Skooz
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To: DoodleDawg
He seemed to have this peculiar way of needing fuel whenever the action heated up.
Pity Halsey was suffering from an illeness in early/mid 1942.
9 posted on
03/22/2017 3:07:56 PM PDT by
Kommodor
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