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...while, Halsey was hallooing after Ozawa with the mightiest force afloat: Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's Task Force 38, with five fleet carriers, five light carriers, six new battleships, two heavy cruisers, six light cruisers and 40 destroyers. Ozawa had one fleet carrier, three light carriers, two battleships converted into carriers, three light cruisers, nine destroyers...
...Unfortunate Speech." Jimmy Thach finished out the war as air operations officer of the loo-ship Fast Carrier Task Force, first under Admiral Marc Mitscher, then under Admiral John S. McCain. Five years later, he commanded the escort carrier Sicily off Korea, and in 1955 he went to the Pentagon as senior naval member of the Defense Department's Weapons Systems Evaluation Group. "Forget the Navy," Arleigh Burke told him then, "and think Defense...
...Lantflex I-57 (code name for the exercise) with its 19 ships set out to sea, Ike's hosts trotted out a dark-blue Mitscher-type cap and a dark-blue foul-weather jacket with "The President" stenciled in gold on the chest. Ike took up his station for hours at a time on the green-tinted, glass-windowed flag bridge of Saratoga.* With him was an all-star Government audience for whom the Navy could hoist its message. From Washington had come Secretary of State John Foster Dulles (who talks up but has seldom witnessed the military muscles...
...cause of naval aviation and produced the Radford Report, a skillful survey of the delivery, combat use, rotation, repair and relocation of aircraft. Brought back to the Pacific in November 1944, when Japanese naval forces were dwindling fast, Radford was appointed commander of Carrier Division 6 with Admiral Marc Mitscher's vast Task Force 58. There he pasted Japanese shore installations from the South China Sea all the way north to Iwo Jima, Okinawa and Japan. His airmen called him the "pilots' admiral" because they knew that he could do himself anything he demanded of his air groups...
...Navy man will question the praise given Arleigh Burke in your fine article; however, I think the statement that "Burke was a long time changing Airman Mitscher's prejudice against surface sailors . . ." can justly be questioned. Pete Mitscher was not only a great air commander but a very rugged sailorman; before becoming a flyer, he had had experience in many types of surface craft. There has always been close union between flyers and nonflyers in our Navy; here was one of the great differences between our naval air arm and the British. During World War II, when a British...