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...Spaatz's chief of staff, and after his bosses have learned the mysteries of the Pacific and the biggest bombers, LeMay probably will join a selected group of younger generals being trained in staff duty in Washington for the postwar years -generals like Hoyt Vandenberg, Lauris Norstad, Elwood ("Pete") Quesada. Until then LeMay concentrates on Japan...
...majority being from the Naval ROTC program. The coaches have a nucleus of experienced players to work with, which should prove quite helpful. These players include: Dave McKintosh and Rod Perkins, ends; Chet Pierce and Ted Woggan, tackles; Ellis Hodge and Mal Allen, guards; Bob MacDonald; Marvin Jenkins, Pete Harwood, and Bob Cowen, backs
McCain would follow his opposite number, 58-year-old Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher, into drydock. Last week "Pete" Mitscher, who commanded Task Force 58, brooded at a Washington desk. The middle of next month he takes over as Deputy Chief of Naval Operations...
There was one consolation for monastic-looking Pete Mitscher, one of the most spectacular figures in the Pacific...
Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey had ridiculed the Jap air force as fifth or sixth rate, "instead of third rate." Vice Admiral Marc A. ("Pete") Mitscher had said that suicide planes were "not more than 2% effective . . . they don't worry us very much." But the weight of the Navy's own evidence seemed to indicate that the admirals might have been indulging in the ancient game of fanning the breeze. Navy censors passed a less cheery opinion in a dispatch from Stanley Woodward, burly, globe-trotting sports editor of the New York Herald Tribune: "There...