"Then we got the news: the Old Man had been made COMSOPAC. I'll never forget it! One minute we were too limp with malaria to crawl out of our foxholes; the next, we were running around whooping like kids. I remember two Marines working up to a brawl. One of them was arguing that getting the Old Man was like getting two battleships and two carriers, and the other was swearing he was worth two battleships and three carriers. If morale had been enough, we'd have won the war right there."
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Roger Kent, air combat information officer with the U.S. Navy who was stationed ashore during the Battle of Guadalcanal in 1942. As quoted by William Frederick Halsey, Jr., and J. Bryan III in Admiral Halsey's Story (1947). New York: Whittlesey House, p. 116
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