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...Mitscher, the wizened little man in the baseball cap, was now flying his flag on the reborn Yorktown. (Soon it would have the three stars of a vice admiral.) Oliver Jensen, after a tour of duty in the Atlantic chasing submarines, went aboard to put together the story of how the U.S. carrier fleet, puny and crippled in 1942, had become the most mobile and most lethal weapon of 20th-century warfare...
...communiqués now being issued on the bombing of Tokyo by "Pete" Mitscher's massed air groups from Task Force 58 will have vastly richer meaning to readers of Carrier...
...filthy weather, to within easy fighter-plane range (200 to 300 miles) of Tokyo. It was organized into the Fifth Fleet, under precise, calculating Admiral Raymond Ames Spruance. Its carriers again had become Task Force 58, and were under the command of slight, puckish Vice Admiral Marc Andrew ("Pete") Mitscher...
Before dawn on Feb. 16, a date which will be ringed in red on many a Navy calendar, the carriers turned into the wind to launch planes. Mitscher had been almost as far as this before: he was skipper of the Hornet when she carried Doolittle's daring little squadron toward Tokyo. But in the intervening 34 months, America's seaborne air force had grown beyond recognition. Now, hundreds of planes circled the carriers as they formed up: for two simultaneous dawn strikes, there were (by Jap count) 300 planes in each attack group...
...Towel Too. By the end of the day, when the war birds homed to their carriers, columns of smoke towered 7,000 feet over Tokyo's airfields. Mitscher's boys call this treatment the "Mitscher shampoo." Next day, they were at it again, but there were fewer parked aircraft, and many loosed their bombs and bullets at inviting fixed targets: an aircraft factory and three engine plants. Along the waterfront were floating targets, choicest of all in Navy flyers' estimation: they sank a destroyer, two destroyer escorts, a freighter and many coastal craft; an escort carrier...