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	William Halsey, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Halsey was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on 30 October 1882, the son of Captain William F. Halsey,Sr.
		Vice Admiral Halsey was at sea in his flagship, USS Enterprise, during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
		Halsey recovered, though, by winning the battle, and commanded the Third Fleet through the end of the Pacific War and was present when Japan formally surrendered on the deck of his flagship, USS Missouri, on September 2, 1945.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Halsey (606 words)

	Encyclopedia: William Halsey
		Halsey was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on 30 October 1882, the son of Master William F. Halsey, USN.
		Vice Admiral Halsey was at sea in his flagship, USS Enterprise, during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941.
		Halsey recovered, though, by winning the battle, and commanded the Third Fleet through the end of the Pacific War and was present when Japan formally surrendered on the deck of his flagship, USS Missouri, on 2 September 1945.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/William-Halsey (588 words)

	William Halsey, Jr. -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Halsey was born in (Click link for more info and facts about Elizabeth, New Jersey) Elizabeth, New Jersey, on 30 October 1882, the son of Master William F. Halsey, USN.
		Halsey recovered, though, by winning the battle, and commanded the Third Fleet through the end of the Pacific War and was present when Japan formally surrendered on the deck of his flagship, (Click link for more info and facts about USS Missouri) USS Missouri, on 2 September 1945.
		Halsey is also well known for being mentioned in the (English rock star and bass guitarist and songwriter who with John Lennon wrote most of the music for the Beatles (born in 1942)) Paul McCartney song, "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" in the 1971 album (A tool for driving or forcing something by impact) Ram.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/W/Wi/William_Halsey,_Jr.htm (661 words)

	Fleet Admiral William Frederick "Bull" Halsey
		Though Halsey's career was mainly in battleships and other surface warships before, in 1935 he made his pilot's license and became captain of USS Saratoga.
		Halsey was and is a highly controversial figure in the U.S. Navy.
		Halsey was definitely not brilliant - under his command responsibility fell the losses of Hornet, Chicago, Princeton and Gambier Bay, all of which could have been probably avoided through careful planning.
	www.microworks.net /pacific/biographies/william_halsey.htm (778 words)

	Admiral William Frederick Halsey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Admiral William Halsey was a senior American naval commander in the Pacific region during World War Two.
		Halsey led the naval forces that accompanied the army and marines to places like the Philippines and Okinawa.
		William Halsey was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on October 30th, 1882.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /admiral_william_frederick_halsey.htm (680 words)

	Halsey, Oregon (Cities)
		Halsey is located 2 miles west of Interstate 5 along Highway 99E in central Linn County, positioned south of Albany, between Tangent and Harrisburg near the Willamette River.
		Halsey began its existence as a winter camp for workers employed in building the Willamette Valley Railroad when it was extended south from Portland.
		Halsey has had a bank since at least January 15, 1910, when the Halsey State Bank's "Articles of Incorporation" were filed with the Office of the Secretary of the State or Oregon." Halsey lies in the middle of one of the largest grass seed growing areas of the world.
	www.ohwy.com /or/h/halsey.htm (152 words)

	William Halsey, Jr.
		In 1922-1925, Halsey served as Naval Attache in Berlin, Germany, and commanded USS Dale (DD-290) during a European cruise.
		Vice Admiral Halsey was at sea in his flagship, USS Enterprise (CV-6), during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941.
		After Guadalcanal was secured in February 1943, Admiral Halsey's forces spent the rest of the year battling up the Solomon Islands Chain to Bougainville, then isolated the Japanese fortress at Rabaul by capturing positions in the Bismarck Islands and Admiralty Islands.
	www.ukpedia.com /w/william-halsey-jr-.html (501 words)

	Admiral William F. Halsey
		Halsey was born on October 30, 1882, in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and came from a long line of seafaring men.
		Halsey would have commanded the aircraft carriers that lay in wait for the Japanese at Midway had he not contracted a serious skin disease.
		Some naval historians are of the opinion, however, that Halsey’s absence from the Midway ambush was one of the major reasons the Americans emerged victorious at what Winston Churchill called the turning point in the Pacific War.
	www.battle-of-leyte-gulf.com /Leaders/Americans/Halsey/halsey.html (1064 words)

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		William Halsey was born in Charleston in 1915.
		William Halsey is a modern artist from South Carolina's, known for his vibrant colors and abstract style in paintings, collage and sculptures done over six decades, beginning in the 1940s.
		Halsey's early paintings of city-scapes, landscapes, still-lifes, and portraits are rendered in a bold, graphic modernist style derived from a Cubist tradition of exploring form in lines, planes and color.
	www.askart.com /artist/H/william_melton_halsey.asp?ID=77378 (543 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Obituaries -- William F. Halsey III, 88; Navy man had adventurous nature
		Halsey served on the board of trustees for The Bishop's School in La Jolla, which all three of his daughters and a grandson attended.
		Halsey was born in Annapolis, Md., during his father's two-year assignment in the Executive Department of the U.S. Naval Academy.
		Halsey's father, the son of a Navy captain, was promoted to admiral in November 1942 and became fleet admiral –; the fourth and last officer to hold that rank – in December 1945.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/obituaries/20030929-9999_1m29halsey.html (748 words)

	William F. Halsey, Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Halsey's mind began to change soon after ER's arrival as he "marveled" at her work.
		As she was departing for the United States, Admiral Halsey told her that it was impossible to express his feelings for what she had done for his men.
		Following the war, Halsey took the oath as fleet admiral on December 11, 1945, and became the fourth and last officer to hold that esteemed rank.
	www.gwu.edu /~erpapers/abouteleanor/q-and-a/glossary/halsey-william.htm (484 words)

	Admiral William Halsey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Halsey was born October 30, 1882 in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
		Between the 23rd and the 25th of October 1944, Halsey was in tactical command under Nimitz during the largest naval battle in history, the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
		During the war Halsey's slogan for the THIRD FLEET was "Hit hard, hit fast, hit often." The hitting now came to an end on the starboard verandah deck of the Flagship of the THIRD FLEET.
	www.freedomdocuments.com /Halsey.html (433 words)

	Halsey Thesis Chapter 2
		William Halsey's work at the Bertha Schaefer Gallery is a pleasant reminder of the worth of reality to an artist who has the gift to enliven it with feeling.
		William Halsey, whose paintings in oil and casein are seen for the first time in New York, has responded to his native South--he paints and teaches in Charleston--with a feeling for its lyrical atmospheres.
		Halsey's mural consisted of three scenes, derived from passages in Exodus 3 which describe "the wandering of Moses with the sheep, the burning bush, the angel of God rising from within the flames, and the retreat of Moses (Figs.
	www.carolinaarts.com /halseythesischapter2.html (5101 words)

	Morris Museum of Art: Exhibitions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Collages, assemblages, and sculptures celebrating the distinguished career of William Halsey (1915-1999) will be on exhibit from January 27 through March 26, 2000, at the Morris Museum of Art.
		As American art historian Dr. William H. Gerdts wrote in his catalogue essay, "Charleston, and South Carolina, ought to be very, very grateful that he stayed." Halsey mentored a generation of young artists, teaching them not only the principles of drawing and painting, but also the importance of the artistic life.
		William Halsey died February 15, 1999, in Charleston.
	www.themorris.org /exhibitions/past/halsey_main.html (604 words)

	Free Times: William Halsey & Corrie McCallum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The William Halsey exhibit, which was shown for the first time in Greenville in the spring and is now on display here at the State Museum, and the Corrie McCallum show at City Art in the Vista, demonstrates this parental mastery.
		Halsey also proves that an artist should not fix upon developing one style and one limited vocabulary but acknowledge change and confront new visual problems.
		William Halsey will be on display in the fourth-floor South Carolina Connections gallery at the State Museum through Oct. 3.
	free-times.com /Reviews/art_reviews/halseymccallum.html (993 words)

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		During World War I, Cmdr. Halsey was awarded the Navy Cross for his actions while in command of USS Benham and USS Shaw during convoy escort duties.
		Halsey is the 47th ship of 62 Arleigh Burke class destroyers currently authorized by Congress.
		The 9,300-ton Halsey is being built by Northrop-Grumman Ship Systems, and is 509.5 feet in length, has a waterline beam of 59 feet, an overall beam of 66.5 feet, and a navigational draft of 31.9 feet.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/ships/destroyers/halsey/christen.txt (467 words)

	William Frederick Halsey Biography / Biography of William Frederick Halsey Biography Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		William F. Halsey was born in Elizabeth, N.J., on Oct. 30, 1882.
		Operations there had reached a critical stage, and the appointment of Halsey, with his reputation for audacity and aggressiveness, was welcomed by the beleaguered Marine and Navy units.
		William F. Halsey and J. Bryan III, Admiral Halsey's Story (1947), contains material on the admiral's early career but is of limited value for the World War II period.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-william-frederick-halsey/index.html (722 words)

	Biographies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		William Halsey, Jr., born March 23, 1760, at Columbia, New Jersey.
		William's brother John moved from New Jersey to Vermont, perhaps for the same reason that William moved to Alleghany County, North Carolina.
		William Halsey died on February 21, 1832, and Rachel died on November 11, 1847.
	freepages.family.rootsweb.com /~families/halsey/bio1.html (238 words)

	Halsey, William F., Jr. -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		William Halsey was born on Oct. 30, 1882, in Elizabeth, N.J. He graduated from the Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1904.
		Born on July 31, 1945, in New York City, William Floyd Weld was educated at Harvard College and Oxford University and received a law degree from Harvard Law School in 1970.
		William Wrigley, Jr., was born in Philadelphia, Pa., on Sept. 30, 1861.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9038972?tocId=9038972&query=william (798 words)

	William Halsey
		William Halsey, the son of a naval captain, was born in New Jersey, United States, on 30th October 1882.
		Halsey's fleet were twice hit by typhoons in December 1944 and June 1945 and this led to the loss of several ships and many lives.
		At the end of the Pacific War Halsey's flagship, Missouri, was used for the signing of the Japanese surrender on 2nd September 1945.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWhalseyW.htm (591 words)

	Reader's Companion to Military History - - Halsey, William F., Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mention Fleet Admiral William Halsey, and first should come recognition of his combat leadership in the South Pacific in World War II, the victories off Santa Cruz Islands and Guadalcanal, the offensive up the Solomons, and the battles of New Georgia, Vella Lavella, and Bougainville.
		It was to Halsey's, and the Americans', great good fortune that Vice Admiral Kurita Takeo did not press his advantage, and that, in a decision as controversial as Halsey's, Kurita ordered the Japanese force to retire before reaching gunshot range of the beachhead landing site.
		Halsey, the son of a naval officer, a graduate of Annapolis, and a naval aviator by training, won a fifth star for his victories.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/mil/html/ml_022300_halseywillia.htm (286 words)

	UVa Statistics: Admiral William ("Bull") Frederick Halsey, Jr.
		Halsey became vice-admiral in command of a Pacific carrier division in 1940.
		Halsey was born in Elizabeth, N. J., and was graduated from the U. Naval Academy in 1904.
		Halsey Hall, currently the home of the University of Virginia Department of Statistics, is the former Naval ROTC building.
	www.stat.virginia.edu /halsey.html (646 words)

	Encyclopedia: William Halsey, Jr.
		US landings in the Pacific, 1942â€“1945 The Pacific War, which is known in Japan as the Greater East Asia War, occurred in the Pacific Ocean, its islands, and in Asia.
		The Bismarck Archipelago is a group of islands off the coast of New Guinea in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, named in honour of the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck and belonging to Papua New Guinea.
		The third USS Missouri (BB-63) (Mighty Mo) is a U.S. Navy battleship, notable as the final battleship to be built by the United States, the second-to-last in the world after HMS Vanguard, and the site of the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/William-Halsey,-Jr. (1715 words)

	Notes for William HALSEY, IIB
		William enlisted in Washington's Continental Army on May 9, 1778, and joined on Jun 5, 1778 at Mount Holly, NJ.
		Williams brother, John, moved from NJ to VT, perhaps for the same reason that William moved to Alleghany Co., NC.
		William and Rachel had four sons and seven dau.'s; Amos md. Elizabeth Howell; Margaret md. Joseph Hash; Rachel md. Isaac Pacely; James md. Pattie Peak; Sylvester md. Mary Young; William "Bucky" md. Juda Peak; Mary md. 1st, Nathaniel Vannoy, 2nd Andrew Robinson; Sally md. 1st.
	moneymaker.rootsweb.com /surnames/chatfield/nti/nti13417.htm (308 words)

	City of Halsey History
		Halsey was removed from this precinct in 1872.
		The first map of the blocks and streets of Halsey, and depot grounds of the Oregon and California Railroad was filed in Multnomah County, Oregon on May 18, 1871 by William L. Halsey, Vice-President, Willamette Valley Railway Company.
		William Lucas Halsey, for whom the town was named, died in Rochester, New York, on February 5, 1884.
	www.cityofhalsey.com (779 words)

	Fleet Admiral William Frederick Halsey, Jr., USN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		William Frederick Halsey, Jr., was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey on 30 October 1882, the son of Master William F. Halsey, USN.
		In 1922-25, Halsey served as Naval Attache in Berlin, Germany and commanded USS DALE (DD 290) during a European cruise.
		After Guadalcanal was secured in February 1943, Admiral Halsey's forces spent the rest of the year battling up the Solomons Chain to Bougainville, then isolated the Japanese fortress at Rabaul by capturing positions in the Bismarcks and Admiralties.
	navysite.de /people/wfhalsey.htm (434 words)

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