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Facing Aft. Few men had seen more Pacific fighting than gnomish, taut "Pete" Mitscher. He had commanded the Hornet, from which Jimmy Doolittle launched his B-25s to bomb Tokyo in early 1942. He had fought through the Solomons. For over a year he commanded Task Force 58, spreading destruction from the Ryukyus to New Guinea. In one nine-month period it sank 88 warships, 282 merchant ships, and destroyed 4,425 planes...
...Argentina's far west and the Province of San Juan, where Perón supporters had split. Because their previous campaign train had been stoned and shot at, the Tamborini crowd now took pains to pack Colt .45s and palm-sized Mauser .25s (the boudoir special...
...drove with one carrier, the Enterprise, to within a thousand miles of Tokyo, and sent her planes to bomb tiny Marcus Island. Six weeks later he stood on the same carrier's flag bridge and watched Lieut. Colonel (now Lieut. General) Jimmy Doolittle's ill-fated B-25s fly off the Hornet to carry to Tokyo the first token...
...dozens of planes are overhead, P-51s, P-38s, B-25s and P-40s. The first pursuit peels off. The bomb lets go and an orange flash and a grey puff of smoke blossom out. A few seconds later the sound reaches us-whambo-and the air rocks. The others follow in line, one after the other-flash, puff, whambo; flash, puff, whambo-until the last plane turns away...
...been more than two and a half years since Jimmy Doolittle's small carrier-borne group of B-25s had bombed Tokyo. Since then Japanese authorities had drilled their docile populace in air-raid defenses, warning them incessantly that it might happen again. Last week the warning was justified: the sirens shrilled and the bombs began to fall...