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CAPT. PAUL D. MOSES COMMANDING OFFICER THROUGHOUT HER 1984 SEVENTH FLEET DEPLOYMENT. USS HALSEY CONSISTENTLY SERVED AS THE EPITOME OF THE MODERN NAVAL SURFACE COMBATANT. BZ ' S WERE RECEIVED FROM CTF 75, COMSE VENTH FLT AND THE CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS. TO ALL OF YOU, AND THE MANY FAMILIES WHO PROVIDED THEIR SUPPORT THROUGH THE DEPLOYMENT PERIOD. A MOST DESERVED WELL DONE.
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0 S-AJ FLEET ADMIRAL WILLIAM HALSEY. JR.. USN FLEET ADMIRAL HALSEY WAS BORN IN ELIZABETH. NEW JERSEY, 30 OCTOBER, 1882, THE SON OF CAPTAIN WILLIAM F. HALSEY. US N, AND ANNE BREWSTER HALSEY. HE WAS APPOINTED TO THE US NAVAL ACADEMY IN 1900 AND GRADUATED IN FEBRUARY 1904. AFTER GRADUATION, ADMIRAL HALSEY SERVED IN MANY CAPACITIES RANGING FROM NAVAL ATTACHE TO SHIP COMMANDS. MUCH OF HIS EARLY CAREER DURING AND SUBSEQUENT TO WORLD WAR I WAS DEVOTED TO COMMANDING DESTROYERS. IN 1935. AT THE AGE OF 52, HE WON HIS WINGS AND WAS DESIGNATED A NAVAL AVIATOR. THE SUCCEEDING YEARS BROUGHT TO THE FOREFRONT HIS TIME TESTED COMMAND ABILITIES AND SAW ADMIRAL HALSEY COMMANDING FIRST THE USS SARATOGA AND LATER THE SOUTH PACIFIC FORCE AND SOUTH PACIFIC AREA WHERE HE DOGGEDLY SET ABOUT AND SUCCEEDED IN ROUTING ENEMY FORCES FROM GUADALCANAL AND THE SOLOMON ISLANDS. IN JUNE 1944, ADMIRAL HALSEY ASSUMED COMMAND OF THE THIRD FLEET AND WAS DESIGNATED COMMANDER OF THE WESTERN PACIFIC TASK FORCE. BEGINNING IN AUGUST 1944. HIS FORCES LEFT A TRAIL OF ENEMY RUIN AND DESTRUCTION IN PALAUS, PHILIPPINES. FORMOSA (TAIWAN), OKINAWA AND THE SOUTH CHINA SEA, AND DECISIVELY DEFEATED ENEMY SEA AND AIR FORCE OPERATIONS IN THE WESTERN CAROLINES AND THE PHILIPPINES ISLANDS. IN THE FINAL PHASES OF THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC. ADMIRAL HALSEYS THIRD FLEET PARTICIPATED IN THE OKINAWA CAMPAIGN. AND LATER HIS FAST CARRIER TASK FORCES PROCEEDED NORTHWARD AND STRUCK AT TOKYO IN JULY 1945. ON AUGUST 29. 1945. ADMIRAL HALSEY, FLYING HIS FLAG IN THE USS MISSOURI. ENTERED TOKYO BAY. THE FOLLOWING DAY, GENERAL OF THE ARMY. DOUGLAS MACARTHUR ARRIVED IN YOKOHAMA AND ON SEPTEMBER I. 1945 ABOARD THE USS MISSOURI. THE FORMAL SURRENDER OF THE JAPANESE IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT WAS SIGNED. IN NOVEMBER 1945. ADMIRAL HALSEY RELINQUISHED COMMAND OF THE THIRD FLEET WHICH HAD EXEMPLIFIED HIS SLOGAN: HIT HARD. HIT FAST. HIT OFTEN. FLEET ADMIRAL HALSEY RETIRED FROM ACTIVE DUTY IN DECEMBER 1946. ADMIRAL HALSEY DIED IN 1954 AND BURIED WITH FULL MILITARY HONORS ON 20 AUGUST IN ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY.
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