Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 22, 1945, Nice, Alpes Cote D'Azur                                The stars and stripes Magazine Iii rising Sun faces a naval showdown by Jack camped stars stripes staff writer and ass avenging third Fleet Are giving Japan a dose Harbor in under the yes and ears of the Tavarion the Sal Kam Frederick Halsey Sawata the form of pulverizing bombs is Jens burled by his big surface and in a Surprise visit to Nippon to Landsa Blitz which neurotic prophesied As the first step an Allied prom toe powerful thirds huge planes doomed Over the hurling death and at Railroad other to get Witny Range or tend targets in the northernmost Island of Harsev took his rampaging task Force 800 Miles farther North than any med major Fleet Nad Ever ventured off and his Caitieri boldly nosed inso rinse to Honshu Island that planes from nne Carrier needed Only 16 minutes to take s bomb target located 20 Miles from  and return to supporting the prowling said by Tokyo radio to number were More than four including the newest 45mqton four 14 de and Many also serv ing under Halsey command were units of my British including the newest air Craft they supported the air strikes Witti the first naval shelling of the japs of quivering the Navy defines a task Force As a number of combat ships and attendant adequate to the task assigned just what was Hai Seys ultimate assignment was a military guessing but a Navy spokesman disclosure that the task Force with which he was assaulting the Jap bastion is the greatest Mobile striking Force in history gave some indication of the scope of that the japs kept screaming to7hen vast Amshl Bious forces invaded the Philippines Law fall one watching the giant invasion Armada eject its cargo of men and supplies on the declared in an awed tone we knew that Japan could not beat out i do not believe eyes when i see out there so Many it is very possible Many a Jap peering anxiously Over his front Yard Fence Over looking the sea is blinking in astonishment As the third working in unison with land based thunderbolts and rallies for the next blow at the Bushy rowed Halsey was reported to be having the time of his life As he super Vised the big Snow from the Bridge of Tus rolling As he shuffled about in his baggy carpet appearing More confident than As he flouted the japs by broadcasting details of his roving task Force a plating Halsey Nad Nau Tea the enemy forces All the Way across the smashing units that dared put up a fight sending the rest running Nippon threat some months ago to hurl the full striking Force of its remaining Navy and air forces against his Fleet didst con Cern him at All retorted the Bull 1 wish they they might get their thumbs Halfway to their that and then he hauntingly be i thought they Nad their third team it looks now like there Down to the fifth or sixth Halsey was born in Eliza attended the University of Vir Ginia for one year and was graduated from Annapolis m 1904 in the years Ali in he Learned to respect the strike a Power of both surface and air Craft and the powerful Wallop they could Nack in combined As for surface they say that Halsey and his powerful forces Are giving the jumpy japs a rocking performance Admiral Halsey the japs might get their thumbs to their that on his looks first to see whether ious Oil from the and strikes against a ship Tias e for gunnery efficiency ious Oil uric Oil refineries at at a time when rest of the inspection comes easy As Halsey puts it the chief business of a warship is to the Hunting grounds were not even before the initial Carrie plane attack n Tokyo last february 1617 and the 200 plane strike on june he had ventured into japans while Nis battleships supported philippine raining and shells on the White beaches and amid the Coconut and mpa Palms covering the narrow Plain below the rolling lung Lecard Hills of Leyte Nis rampaging carriers had pierced the China for three the South China sea had been the covered thoroughfare of japans sprawling Empire through its protected of thousands of Miles of Jap convoys had plied unmolested Between the Home islands and the stolen South Pacific but that was before mid january this year when the thirds fast car which Nad been groups co Formosa and Luzon to harass enemy reinforcements to the beleaguered enemy defenders at swung Southwest through Luzon Strait from the philippine sea to the South China the daring air raiders had a Good sink ing 41 enemy ships and damaging 28 More including two entire a Light Cruiser and the dismantled French Cruiser not the least 3f their accomplishments were the sinking of tankers bearing prec Ever for its suicide the Southern regions of the sea temporarily cleared of enemy Halsey s sea Force steamed boldly where a combat air patrol of approximately 200 fighters went to work on at the same another Carrier Force took off to make earner aviation history of swoop w Down on the China coast in this lightning Man Euver the air Fleet stung Swa wow and the captive British Colony 01 of which kept the enemy reeling while the Landing on Luzon was made Good and it was the Bull who commanded operations in the Western Carolines last summer m which nearly 800 operation which gave As control of the Southern half of the Crescent shaped Chain of islands running from Tokyo to the Southern and helped Complete isolation of the enemy held Central and Eastern including their base at the third fleets Swift earner task after providing support for the Palau returned to the attack on enemy Power in the prom Waters to the they conduct a she first earner attack of the War on Manila and without detection under the cover of Low hanging Clouds in the late summer of on sept before Macarthur return to the Carner borne planes struck the Central completing photographic coverage of Leyte and Pacific strategists mapping the philippine invasion tactics had ear marked mortal As a stepping Stone Foi seventh amphibious Force landings then set for the photographs disclosed the relative weakness of enemy air discovery Whitt hastened the philippine invasion by one and gave Leyte initial Landing declared one naval official there is no Way of telling How much longer and costlier the Philippines Campaign would have been had we spearheaded our invasion forces at mortal instead of the difference would be measured to and a lot of in the Pacific has been a China shop to the diminutive Bull Ever since be re placed Admiral Ghornley As third Fleet commander on and launched his wave of destruction Aga Russ the japs Pacific grab by providing reinforcements and supplies for the Guadal canal operations late in in wreaking vengeance on the Halsey ships and planes have also been of treacherous weather and the japs suicide last 3 vicious typhoon battered the Hirdt fast Carrier task Force West of the sending three Stout destroyers to the Bot a second typhoon Early last again struck Halsey damaging More than 21 greater disaster than any on Day engagement with the the enemy Nas been counting on customary in a Trust and to thwart an invasion of their homelands As they did in the 15th Century when a tempest wiped out a invasion Fleet sent against their islands by world coveting Kublai but the typhoons this outside of isolated blows at our Nave served Only to fan the fires raging to bomb and Shell rocked vice Daniel who has directed 56 amphibious operations in the made it pretty Clear that american forces might not wait Tor the typhoon season to subside before going the seventh amphibious Force chief didst ease the jumpy nerves of the japs when he according to the associated that landings in Japan and China were equal possibilities and that the invading Force could be readied within 60 to 90 according to its As for the barony said will take More than a big wind to Stop a though Halsey dismissed the Kaml Kaze attacks As no real out a hell of a Navy casualty records from March 18 to May 23 sounded a gloomier note men listed As dead or missing and greatest naval casualties encountered in any of our operations to this Lima Jap suicide planes Oava taken their but in most cases the sea Neh after being pounded by Tae to Laden Varakin have returned to action after the Bull has kept pushing Westward right up to japans front when a resumed command of the third Fleet last after a couple of months respite from sea the thirds chief told newsmen his Fleet was ready to help Japan into unadulterated and unconditional surrender and that not even Hionis sacred domicile could look for no doubt the japs were pondering chose words this week As his forces throttled their watery lifeline and rained destruction of Pineir their aged Kan Taro could hardly Nave Given Muca Comfort to his people when he declared solemnly am determined to fight through this War with All i our future hangs in the a Tokyo newspaper editor who had already lost his Home and possessions 10 air raids was reported to have replies sadly we can Well now what that future will was to of air a uprise visit to Nippon