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Died. Bella Chagall, 48, wife and only model of Russian-born, Paris-loving Artist Marc Chagall, now painting his bucolic, sentimental fantasies in U.S. exile; of diabetes; at Tupper Lake...
More than 70 are now operating with the fleet. U.S. yards have turned out more than 100 (some of which have gone to the British). In Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher's fast-moving, hard-hitting Task Force 58 there are more CVEs than CVs (the big ones). Navy officials are now glad to defend the Casablancas, the last of which was delivered in July. Said one admiral: "Without them the U.S. Navy would not be fighting today west of the Marianas...
Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, wizened, air-wise, U.S. Navy carrier task-force commander in the Pacific, got a Navy bronze star at his advance base in the Marshalls from CINCPAC Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. Said Nimitz: "Ninety-one years ago a naval officer opened up the ports of Japan, and now another officer is doing his damndest to close them...
Captain Arleigh Albert Burke, U.S.N., had a new job: Chief of Staff of Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's superpowerful Task Force 58, and there was not a Navy man in the Pacific to say he did not deserve the job. At 42, the king of the "cans" had become a legend...
Centripetal Blows. How many more Americans must die before Saipan could be cleared of all its original 20,000 to 30,000 defenders, no man could say. But final victory was assured by Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's huge Task Force 58, whose carriers kept supply lanes clear...