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.
On the contrary, we should be thanking the good Lord above that Halsey was beached during the Battle of Midway. His impulsive nature would have surely led him to go charging after the remains of the Japanese Navy after we’d bombed their carriers . . . and blundered straight into the guns of their battleships and cruisers and destroyers, which were desperately trying to effect that very outcome. But Admiral Spruance — who, remember, would not have been in charge if Halsey were there — was smart enough to hang back during the night, thus denying the Japanese surface fleet their chance to get their revenge and destroy our last two carriers still in the fight.
On the other hand, it’s a pity we couldn’t have swapped out commanders and had Halsey in command at the Philippine Sea and Spruance in command at Leyte Gulf. Oh well, that’s the way history goes . . .