The Best Admirals of WWII – According to Their Contemporaries
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In this episode we’re going through an article about which admirals were thought to be the best in early WWII.
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My choice is Henry K. Hewitt after reading An Army at Dawn by Richard Atkinson.
If you had the ability to ask anyone serving in Taffy 3, @ Leyte Gulf they’d agree that Admiral Halsey should’ve been Court Martialed.
Admiral Halsey and Admiral Lockwood, Commander Submarines Pacific Fleet
Gonna stir the pot and say it’s Andrew Cunningham, Bert Ramsay, Bruce Fraser, and James Somerville in that order
Ching Lee all the way!
Ching lee
Of Course Spruance and Halsey. Ching Lee as well.
(How many other US Admirals have Olympic gold
medals?)
steve
Favorite Admiral? Nimitz. Admiral that should have gotten a fifth star? Spruance.
well…. in the Pacific Theater of Ops, for me it has to be Adm Nimitz, for his leadership in a very difficult time and the victory the Pacific Fleet managed to achieve under his command. in the Atlantic- perhaps Adm Sir Dudley Pound for winning the U-Boat War and/or "ABC", the famous Adm A B Cunningham (later 1st Vicount Cunningham) for his service in the Med and later as First Sea Lord.
Nimitz for surd
Halsey is grossly over-rated and should have been removed from command .. Fletcher is grossly under-rated and should have been recognized as the greatest Fleet Commander in WW2 .. his actions during Coral Sea proved he was far superior to Halsey ..
I'm partial to Admiral Halsey as my late Great Uncle was his personal assistant during WWII and used to tell us some amazing stories when we were kids!
Adm. Charles Lockwood should have been on the list.
William D. Leahy is not on the list. Perhaps because he had retired and served in other government roles. But he was recalled to active duty in 1942 and Roosevelt made him his Chief of Staff. Thus he would later be referred to as "The Second Most Powerful Man In The World". He was given his 5th star in 1944, the first flag officer to hold the rank.
I am 100% for Halsey. Historians who are armchair sailors who have ZERO experience in the Navy (I am a retired O-4 with 5 and a half years on my sea counter and 402 traps) have no clue of the crushing responsibility he had to shoulder. He is a true leader. So he made mistakes. Welcome to the human race. I would like to see any of you do better.
Depends. I think Spruance was the best field admiral of WWII hands down in terms of his effectiveness all around. Halsey was the man we needed in the South Pacific in ‘42 and ‘43 when what we needed most was a morale boost and someone to clean up Gormley’s mess. Lee was the best man to command fast battleships because he understood the new tech and was a master marksman himself. Richmond Kelly Turner was a master Logistician and was in charge of that almost from start to finish, so even though there were other people who potentially could have done the job he understood the depth of the job better than anyone else by doing it the longest. It’s hard to simplify this question down to simply “the best admiral” as they all had different duties and strengths.
You talk way too much. And say nothing of note.
"5 of them were also incredibly accomplished marksmen."
Lee, Lee, Lee, Lee, and Lee!
First ive ever heard of Halsey loosing all that weight.
Fletcher was replaced because he wasnt agreddive enough.