William Frederick Halsey, Jr. Quote

Missing the Battle of Midway has been the greatest disappointment of my career, but I am going back to the Pacific where I intend personally to have a crack at those yellow bellied sons of bitches and their carriers.


Speech at the Naval Academy, as quoted in James C. Bradford, Quarterdeck and Bridge: Two Centuries of American Naval Leaders (1997), p. 350.


Missing the Battle of Midway has been the greatest disappointment of my career, but I am going back to the Pacific where I intend personally to have...

Missing the Battle of Midway has been the greatest disappointment of my career, but I am going back to the Pacific where I intend personally to have...

Missing the Battle of Midway has been the greatest disappointment of my career, but I am going back to the Pacific where I intend personally to have...

Missing the Battle of Midway has been the greatest disappointment of my career, but I am going back to the Pacific where I intend personally to have...