How a desk reassignment would change Halsey's reputation

Would William Halsey be remembered differently if Samar and Typhoon Cobra led to a desk reassignment?

Probably: finishing the war at sea carries a different public reputation from reassignment to a desk, which can leave a career receiving less attention.

Finishing a war in command at sea gives an officer a different place in public memory from ending it in a desk appointment. A reassignment after Samar and Typhoon Cobra would therefore probably change how Halsey was remembered. The comparison is with Harwood, whose reputation differed before and after the film about his wartime service. The point concerns the attention paid to a career and its ending, without establishing exactly how later historians would judge every decision.