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...ready to jangle enemy nerves. Vice Admiral Aubrey Wray Fitch, new deputy chief of naval operations for air, surveyed the Pacific war scene last week and proclaimed: "Task Force 58, which scourged the Jap so effectively in the last eight months, was just a sweet, summer zephyr compared to the . . . weapons-old and new-which are ready to lash...
...Navy has multiplied its air power 20 times, adding a total of 57,600 planes. In a report of his own, Vice Admiral Aubrey Fitch, chief of naval air operations, noted that the Navy had 34,071 planes on hand June 30*; that among some 100 carriers, 14 are first-line Essex class, nine are Independence (converted cruiser) class...
Without maligning Jake Fitch, they were certain that his appointment indicated that the Navy was still sticking to sacred seniority. It looked as if the generally younger admirals who had been airmen from the start would have to wait their turns-at least so long as the battleship admirals hold the reins...
...Uneasy Side. But the off-record remarks were more hopeful than assured. They remembered that Jake Fitch was still commanding minelayers and destroyers when early birdmen like Jack Towers (now deputy commander in the Pacific under Admiral Chester Nimitz) and Marc Mitscher (the Navy's No. 1 carrier task-force commander in the Pacific) were briskly testing the wings of the weapon destined to revolutionize naval warfare...
...Good Side. On Jake Fitch's credit side, naval aviators found this to say: although he was 46 when he went to Pensacola and won his wings, he caught on fast, for an aviation ancient. Since then barrel-chested, rough-&-ready Jake Fitch has served only in aviation jobs: he commanded the seaplane tenders Wright, Langley, served in the carrier Saratoga; commanded the carrier Lexington, and was aboard her as a Rear Admiral when she was torpedoed in the Coral...