When looking at WW2 history, it is incredibly difficult for our 21st-century minds to grasp with any accuracy just how LITTLE people knew in 1940. And therefore just how much guesswork and gut instinct had to be used to make EVERY decision.
For example, in reading the classic Thunder Below, the recounting of the USS Barb's submarine exploits in WW2, Capt Plucky recalls that they were using charts to navigate the East Asia seas that were produced by a Norwegian survey conducted in the late 1800s! To say the accuracy was variable was an understatement in the extreme.
Today, I can pick any GPS point in the South China Sea and get a depth that is accurate to inches and even instantly compensate that depth for any tide past or future!
IMO Halsey's bluster makes him look a lot more of a bull than he actually was. Remembering that he had to make hundreds of decisions every week based on gut instinct whereas today we would know the answers in absolute terms to things he could only guess at in the 1940's world he lived in.
I'm in awe of how these brave men did what they did to the level that they did it at given the tools at their disposal.
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