but halsey slowed his fleet. in the next while halsey shipped to worded decoy fleet, admiral carita is powerful fleet was causing havoc around late today. finally halsey realized he had been lured her to the decoy fleet bourque had been right. but then was too far away from the battle to influence the rest of the battle. but luckily the tenacious but almost suicidal defense of the invasion fleet escort carriers forced carita to withdraw before he could attack the transports. , save the invasion. burke felt that halsey made a critical error and that the u.s. had averted disaster only because of the miraculous defense of the outnumbered escort carriers and destroyers. his policy or mr. had listened to burke, but if they had. they would've had the opportunity to completely annihilate the japanese fleet and bring the war to a conclusion. this is one of the many might have been of burke. after late today, burke continued to work together in iwo jima and to the kamikaze onslaught against okinawa. they were together wit