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"The world wonders" was security padding added by a radioman to a US Navy message from Admiral Chester Nimitz to Admiral William Halsey, Jr. on October 25, 1944 during the Battle of Leyte Gulf.[1] The phrase, appended to a request for his task force's location, was interpreted by Halsey as a harsh and sarcastic rebuke.[2] Halsey had taken the whole of the 3rd Fleet, including six battleships under the name "Task Force 34", northward in pursuit of a fleet of Japanese aircraft carriers sent as a decoy, leaving the landing beaches on the island of Leyte in the Philippines covered only by a small group of escort carriers from the 7th Fleet. He did this without clearly communicating his intentions. Everyone else, including Admiral (Chester Nimitz), CINCPAC back in Hawaii, still thought he was covering the landings. On the morning of October 25, a strong Japanese force of battleships slipped through the strait and attacked the landing force, which appealed for assistance from Halsey. Nimitz intercepted the appeal and sent a message to Halsey, simply asking for his current location. The entire plaintext of the message transmitted was: TURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERS [3] The words before the first 'GG' and after the last 'RR' are padding added to make cryptanalysis more difficult.[3][4] The first paragraph, the material between 'GG' and 'X', is routing and classification information, metadata for the message itself.[3] While decrypting and transcribing the message, Halsey's radio officer properly removed the leading phrase, but the trailing phrase looked appropriate and he seems to have thought it was intended and so left it in before passing it on to Halsey,[1] who read it as “ Where is, repeat, where is Task Force Thirty Four? The world wonders. ” The structure tagging (the 'RR's) should have made clear that the phrase was in fact padding. In all the ships and stations that received the message, only New Jersey's communicators failed to delete both padding phrases.[5] The message (and its trailing padding) became famous, and created some ill feeling, since it appeared to be a harsh criticism by Nimitz of Halsey's decision to pursue the carriers and leave the landings uncovered. "I was stunned as if I had been struck in the face" Halsey later recalled.[4] "The paper rattled in my hands, I snatched off my cap, threw it on the deck, and shouted something I am ashamed to remember"[4] and let out an anguished sob.[4] Regarding the message as an open humiliation, he delayed for an hour - saying he was refueling - before turning around with his two fastest battleships along with three light cruisers and eight destroyers.[6] The padding phrase may have been inspired by both a sense of history and a knowledge of poetry. The day the message was sent was the 90th anniversary of the Charge of the Light Brigade in the Battle of Balaclava.[1] A famous poem about this charge was written by Tennyson, and contained the stanza: “ Flashéd all their sabers bare, Flashéd as they turned in air, Sab'ring the gunners there, Charging an army, while     All the world wondered. ” References ^ a b c Black, Conrad (2005). Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom. Public Affairs. pp. 1013. http://books.google.com/books?id=lYVCi70HaigC. Retrieved 19 March 2009.  ^ North, Oliver; Joe Musser (2004). War stories II: heroism in the Pacific. Regnery Publishing. ISBN 089526109X, 9780895261090.  ^ a b c Tuohy, William (2007). America's Fighting Admirals: Winning the War at Sea in World War II. MBI Publishing Company. ISBN 0760329850, 9780760329856.  ^ a b c d Thomas, Evan (2006). Sea of thunder: four commanders and the last great naval campaign, 1941-1945. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0743252217, 9780743252218.  ^ Potter, E B (2003). Bull Halsey. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1591146917, 9781591146919.  ^ Miller, Nathan (1997). War at Sea: A Naval History of World War II. Oxford University Press US. ISBN 0195110382, 9780195110388.  Miller, Nathan (1982) [1977]. The U. S. Navy: an illustrated history. New York: Bonanza Books. pp. 366–371. ISBN 0-517-38597-X. OCLC 8493587.