Word: mccain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the East. Out of the dawn on July 10, his commander of Task Force 38, Vice Admiral John S. ("Jock") McCain, sent off a horde of fighters to strike at the remnant of Japan's home-based air power. McCain's airmen prayed that the Japs would come out and give them another red-letter day like the "Marianas Turkey Shoot" of June...
...force, said Nimitz, was "a part of the Third Fleet." It was built around McCain's fast carrier task force, usually made up of three or four groups. (Sample group: four carriers, two or more battleships, half a dozen cruisers and a dozen destroyers...
Nimitz also published the names of three of McCain's task group commanders: pianoplaying, fight-loving Rear Admiral Gerald F. Bogan; lean, relaxed Rear Admiral Arthur W. Radford; and serious, solid Rear Admiral Thomas L. Sprague, recently graduated from jeep carriers to the big sisters...
...Coach. At sea, during an air operation, Halsey does not exercise detailed, tactical control of the fleet: that is the responsibility of the top carrier admiral (in this case, McCain). But Halsey wears the Navy's gold wings above the left breast pocket of his open-necked, tieless shirt. He won them at 52, and is regarded by career aviators as a reasonable facsimile of a high-octane air admiral...
...week's end, the U.S. fliers' score for two days was fat: in Jap planes destroyed, 220 damaged; 25 ships sunk, 58 damaged. By this time McCain had hauled off to the south. He was off Luzon, in the Philippines, looking for trouble. But Jap air power on Luzon was already thinned out; on the first day, only 41 enemy planes could be found and wrecked...