retiring quotes

TheThird Fleet's sunken and damaged ships have been salvaged and are retiring at high speed toward the enemy.

-Halsey,W(illiam) F(rederick) known as  'Bull' Halsey
  Comment,14 Oct, on hearing claims that the Japanese had virtually annihilated the US fleet. Quoted in E B Potter Bull Halsey (1985), ch.17.

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