“I'll take it! If anything gets in my way, we'll shoot first and argue afterwards.”
On taking responsibility for the war, as quoted in Joseph Bryan, Admiral Halsey's story (1947), p. 76.
William Frederick " Bull" Halsey, Jr. a été le seul amiral de la marine des États-Unis ayant exercé un commandement à la mer au cours de la guerre du Pacifique à avoir été promu au grade d'amiral de la Flotte. Commandant d'une Task Force aéronavale en 1941-1942, commandant en chef de la Zone du Pacifique Sud pendant les campagnes de Guadalcanal et des Îles Salomons, il finit la guerre comme commandant en chef de la IIIe Flotte, et c'est sur son cuirassé amiral qu'est signée la capitulation japonaise, en baie de Tokyo.
“I'll take it! If anything gets in my way, we'll shoot first and argue afterwards.”
On taking responsibility for the war, as quoted in Joseph Bryan, Admiral Halsey's story (1947), p. 76.
Battle Stations! Your Navy in Action (1946), "The Surrender of Japan", p. 360
“Before we're through with them, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell.”
Remark in December 1941, after the attack of Pearl Harbor, as quoted in Roger Parkinson, Attack on Pearl Harbour (1973), p. 117; James Bradley, Flyboys (2004), p. 138.
Quoted in the Congressional Record, 11 December 1971 http://books.google.com/books?id=ltuwtwQcKHwC&q=%22There+are+no+great+men+there+are%22+%22only+great+challenges+which+ordinary+men+like+you+and+me+are++forced+by+circumstances+to+meet%22&pg=PA46480#v=onepage.
“Kill Japs, kill Japs, kill more Japs!”
Reported in James Bradley, Flyboys (2004), p. 138; Thomas Evans, Sea of Thunder (2006), p. 1; Paul Fussell, Wartime (1990), p. 119.
Speech at the Naval Academy, as quoted in James C. Bradford, Quarterdeck and Bridge: Two Centuries of American Naval Leaders (1997), p. 350.
Source: Admiral Halsey's Story (1947), p. 242