WILLIAM F. HALSEY (1882-1959) American admiral who led the task force attack on the Marshall and Gilbert islands and became commander of Allied naval forces in South Pacific commanding at the Solomon Islands and Leyte Gulf. Scarce A.L.S. on the verso of a holiday greeting card bearing his five-star flag 1p. 12mo. [n.p. n.d.] largely friendly content apparently written in his later years thanking friends for sending a Christmas card and mentioning the funeral of a mutual friend. Fine.