USS Halsey DDG 97 / Fleet Admiral William
Frederick 'Bull' Halsey / Arleigh Burke class Guided Missile Destroyer – US
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Guided Missile Destroyer
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DDG 97 -
USS Halsey
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USS Halsey (DDG 97)
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US Navy photo
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Type,
Class:
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Guided Missile Destroyer; Arleigh Burke – class / Flight
IIA;
planned and built as DDG
97; |
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Builder:
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Ingalls Shipbuilding,
Pascagoula, Mississippi, USA |
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STATUS:
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Awarded: March 6, 1998; Laid down: January 13, 2003; Launched: January 9, 2004; Commissioned: July 30, 2005; ACTIVE UNIT/ in
commission (Pacific Fleet) |
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Homeport:
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San Diego, California, USA
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Namesake:
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Named after and in honor of
Fleet Admiral William F. “Bull” Halsey
(1882 –1959); > see history, below;
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Ship's
Motto:
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> HIT HARD - HIT FAST - HIT OFTEN <
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Technical Data:
(Measures, Propulsion, Armament,
Aviation, etc.)
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see: INFO > Guided
Missile Destroyer / Arleigh Burke - class. … see also: USS
Halsey (CG 23); |
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William
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Photo credits: US Navy, US Naval
Historical Center |
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Namesake
& History: |
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Fleet Admiral William Frederick
“Bull” Halsey (October 30, 1882 – August 16, 1959); |
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William Frederick Halsey,
Jr., was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on October 30, 1882, the son of the
late Captain William F. Halsey, U. S. Navy. As a Navy junior, he made the
usual round of schools prior to his appointment to the Naval Academy.
President McKinley gave him an appointment in 1900. While at the Naval Academy
he distinguished himself in class committees and athletics, but not in
scholarship. He was a member of the "Lucky Bag" yearbook staff, won
his letter in football as a fullback and was president of the Athletic
Association. As a First Classman, he had his name engraved on the Thompson
Trophy Cup as the Midshipman who had done the most during the year for the
promotion of athletics. Upon graduation in February
1904, he was assigned to USS Missouri and later transferred to USS Don Juan
de Austria in which he was commissioned an Ensign after having completed the
two years at sea -- then required by law. In 1907, he joined USS Kansas and
made the famous World Cruise of the Fleet in that battle ship. For the next almost 25
years practically all his sea duty with the Fleet was in destroyers, starting
in 1909 with command of USS DuPont (TB-7 commissioned in 1897), USS Lamson,
USS Flusser and USS Jarvis. In 1915 he went ashore for two years of duty in
the Executive Department at the Naval Academy. During WWI he served in the
Queenstown Destroyer Force in command of USS Benham and USS Shaw. From 1918
to 1921 he continued his destroyer service in command of USS Yarnell, USS
Chauncey, USS John Francis Burnes and Destroyer Division Thirty-two. In
October of 1920 he assumed command of USS Wickes and of Destroyer Division
Fifteen. At that time a destroyer division commander also commanded the
division flagship. Another shore cruise sent him to duty in the Office of
Naval Intelligence, in Washington, -- which was his only duty assignment in
that city. In October 1922, he was ordered as Naval Attache at the American
Embassy in Berlin, Germany. One year later, he was given additional duty as
Naval Attache at the American Embassies in Christiana, Norway; Copenhagen,
Denmark; and Stockholm, Sweden. On completion of that
cruise he returned to sea duty, again in the destroyers in European waters,
in command of USS Dale and USS Osborne. Upon his return to the U.S. in 1927,
he served one year as Executive Officer of the battleship USS Wyoming -- and
then for three years in command of USS Reina Mercedes, station ship at the
Naval Academy. He continued his destroyer duty on his next two-years at
cruise starting in 1930 as Commander Destroyer Division Three of the Scouting
Force. In 1932 he went as a student to the Naval War College. Then in 1934, he embarked
on his aviation career when he reported to the Naval Air Station, Pensacola
for flight training. He was designated a Naval Aviator on 15 May 1935, and
went in command of the carrier USS Saratoga for two years, followed by one
year in command of the Naval Air Station, Pensacola. In 1938, when he reached
flag rank, he held successive commands of Carrier Division Two in USS
Yorktown and Carrier Division One in Saratoga. In 1940, he became Commander
Aircraft Battle Force with the rank of Vice Admiral. He was in USS Enterprise
in that command when World War II broke out. In April 1942 he was designated
Commander Task Force Sixteen, in Enterprise to escort the carrier USS Hornet
to within 800 miles of Tokyo to launch the Army planes for the initial
bombing of Japan. In October l942 he was made
Commander South Pacific Forces and South Pacific Area. With the rank of
Admiral, and for the next 18 months he was in command of that area during the
offensive operations of the U. S. Forces. In June 1944 he assumed command of
the Third Fleet, and was designated Commander Western Pacific Task Forces. As
such, he operated successfully against the Japanese in the Palaies, Philippines,
Formosa, Okinawa and South China Sea. Subsequent to the Okinawa campaign in
July 1945, his forces struck at Tokyo and the Japanese mainland. The last
attack of his forces was on 13 August 1945. Admiral Halsey's flag was flying
on USS Missouri on 2 September in Tokyo Bay when the formal Japanese
surrender was signed onboard. Immediately thereafter, 54
ships of the Third Fleet, with his four-star flag in USS South Dakota,
returned to the United States for annual Navy Day Celebrations in San
Francisco on 27 October 1945. He hauled down his flag in November of that
year and was assigned special duty in the office of the Secretary of the
Navy. On December 11, 1945, he took the oath as Fleet Admiral becoming the
fourth and last officer to hold the rank. Later, Fleet Admiral Halsey
made a goodwill flying trip through Central and South America covering nearly
28,000 miles, and 11 nations. He was relieved of active duty in December
1946, and upon his own request transferred to the retired list on 1 March 1947.
Upon retirement, he joined the board of two subsidiaries of the International
Telephone and Telegraph Company and served until 1957. He was active in an
unsuccessful effort to preserve the USS Enterprise as a national shrine, and
was an elected Honorary Vice President of the Naval Historical Foundation. He died on 16 August 1959
at Fishers Island Country Club. PROMOTIONS Graduated from Naval Academy - Class
of 1904 DECORATIONS AND AWARDS Navy Cross |
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USS Halsey (DDG
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… DDG 97 history
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… and patches … |
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