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Their third, northernmost force, which included four of their precious, dwindling stock of flattops, would send off planes to smear Admiral Mitscher's bare-decked carriers when the latters planes were far away, giving Kinkaid support which the Japs' were confident he would need and demand...
Oversight. On paper it was a fine complex plan. There were only two things against it: one was that Old Stagers Halsey, Mitscher and Kinkaid were comb ing the seas with planes and submarines looking for the attack; another was the overwhelming power of the U.S. force...
Admiral Halsey disposed his Third Fleet to the east of the central Philippines-off southern Luzon, Samar and Leyte. Long-range scouts from Mitscher's carriers spotted the Japs' central and southern forces, ploughing through the Sibuyan and Sulu Seas. The central force was spearheaded by two new battleships of more than 40,000 tons, the Yamato and Musahi; three oldsters, the Nagato and the durable Kongo and Haruna. Shepherding them were eight cruisers and 13 destroyers. To the south were the 29,000-ton Huso and Yamasiro, going on 30 years old, four cruisers and seven...
...Mitscher's Avengers. It was time for the first strike. Mitscher sent off powerful forces of Hellcats, Avengers and Hell-divers against both Jap fleets. In the central force, they damaged a battleship and a cruiser, both of which may have sunk. A light cruiser was torpedoed; it capsized and sank. Three battleships and three heavy cruisers absorbed both bombs and torpedoes, but pressed...
...seagoing airdromes. On the horizon loomed the majestic battleships of Admiral Wil liam F. Halsey's Third Fleet - some of them ghosts from the graveyard of Pearl Harbor. Beyond the horizon steamed the greatest concentration of water-borne air power in war's history-Vice Admiral Mitscher's fast carrier task groups...