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Book Review: The Cruise of the German Raider Atlantis

decoy force, Admiral Willis Lee (Halsey's battleship commander) implored Halsey to detach the modern battleships and send them south to engage what was obviously a pincer action comprised of heavy surface forces. Lee sensed that the northern Japanese carriers were a decoy and said so. Potter recorded only that an unspecified signal from Lee was "acknowledged perfunctorily." [297] When the famous signal from Nimitz questioned Halsey about his whereabouts, Halsey's bravado abandoned him totally and he collapsed in tears. It was left to Admiral Carney to shake 'Bull' by his shoulders and admonish him: "Stop it! What the hell's the matter with you? Pull yourself together!" [303] The re-issue of Potter's biography serves only to perpetuate the many myths and half-truths that still shroud the legendary fame of Admiral 'Bull' Halsey. Potter's close personal association with Admiral Carney placed him in an untenable position of conflict that made an objective assessment of his subject impossible. There is ample ground for a new and far more critical biography on William Halsey. This work is not recommended and readers seeking a more profound understanding of the events of the Pacific War are recommended to consult the outstanding works by Wayne Hughes, Mark Peattie, and David Evans.