During the final days of 1944, US Admiral William Halsey and his 30,000-man Third Fleet were refueling their vessels after a 3-day operation when they were notified of poor weather conditions.

On October 24, 1944, in the climactic days of the Pacific War, the U.S. Navy’s Third Fleet under Admiral William Halsey ...

S haggy-browed “Bull” Halsey was moving on. In the “Admiral’s Cabin,” a roomy office on the second floor of a former French barracks in Noumea, there was handshaking and bluff well-wishing.

Imagine that Pennsylvania was not named by Charles II after founder William Penn’s father, a British admiral. What if, ...