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...Japanese homeland has been left "wide open" by U.S. victories in the air, on the sea and on land in the western Pacific, said Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher last week, when he returned to California for a 30-day leave. Gnomish "Pete" Mitscher, dried and puckered by wind and sun, brought back the staff which had helped him plan and execute a historic cleanup of Jap ships, planes and fighting men. In nine months (Jan. 29 to Oct. 27), his fast carrier task forces of the Pacific Fleet - operating part of the time as Task Force...
Here Halsey and his carrier forces, under Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, struck with a fury and a complexity of maneuver partially explained by the Navy's announcement that under wizened "Pete" Mitscher were five subordinate admirals, each with his own task group...
About 200 planes were credited to pilots from the Mountbatten, MacArthur and Chennault commands, but carrier-based navymen of Vice Admiral Marc A. Mit-scher's task force, from Halsey's Third Fleet, went on a more destructive ram page. In seven carrier raids from Aug. 30 to Sept. 25 (four of them over the Philip pines) 1,101 Jap planes were destroyed. Significantly, Halsey's fourth raid, an nounced last week, was met by only seven Jap planes in the central Philippines. Left on the ground for Marc Mit-scher's pilots to destroy were...
...carrier task-force commander of Halsey's Third Fleet, Vice Admiral Marc Andrew Mitscher leads more big flattops and escorting warships than any other man in history. In the midst of one great air battle over the Philippines, Mitscher ordered one baby carrier and a couple of destroyer escorts to detach themselves from his huge armada and go off on an errand. The captain of the baby radioed to Mitscher: "Am proceeding in accordance with your orders. You are now on your...
...successive days, Vice Admiral Marc Andrew Mitscher's carrier-based planes struck in force at Clark Field, Nichols Field, Cavite Naval Base. They shot down 169 Jap planes, fired 188 on the ground (two week total: 978), damaged or sank 86 more ships. U.S. loss last week: 11 planes, 15 airmen...