Word: marc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Only five days after his task force had struck savagely at Truk Rear Admiral Marc Mitscher was hitting the Japs again: this time the Marianas Islands, 650 miles northwest of Truk, 1,400 miles south of Tokyo, were the targets...
...beyond denying Truk the defense to which it was entitled, the Japs didn't seem to want to fight at Saipan, Tinian, Guam-bastions far to the northwest of Truk. Rear Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's carrier forces hit these bases and Truk within the space of five days (see col. 3), probably without returning to base to refuel or rearm...
...fleet (commanded by Admiral Spruance) boldly stood off Truk while planes from Rear Admiral Marc Mitscher's carriers worked away. By the end of the first day enemy air opposition had been beaten out of existence...
...starters at the Point. If Caleb Loring is recovered from the injury which kept him out of the Dartmouth and Princeton battles, he will be used an one wing, with Billy Harding at the other and newly-elected Captain Earle Acker at center, if Loring is still ailing. Marc Beebe will operate from his wing post...