Word: mitscher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy man will question the praise given Arleigh Burke in your fine article; however, I think the statement that "Burke was a long time changing Airman Mitscher's prejudice against surface sailors . . ." can justly be questioned. Pete Mitscher was not only a great air commander but a very rugged sailorman; before becoming a flyer, he had had experience in many types of surface craft. There has always been close union between flyers and nonflyers in our Navy; here was one of the great differences between our naval air arm and the British. During World War II, when a British...
...Arlington as his burial site; Admiral Robert (North Pole) Peary; Robert Todd Lincoln, James Garfield's Secretary of War, and the only one of Abraham Lincoln's sons to live to manhood ; General Phil Sheridan; Air General Henry ("Hap") Arnold and Admiral Marc ("Turn on the Lights") Mitscher; William Gibbs McAdoo, Woodrow Wilson's World War I Secretary of the Treasury; Pianist and Polish Patriot Ignace Jan Paderewski, who rests in Arlington until Poland is free again; Navy Lieut, (j.g.) James V. Forrestal, later the first Secretary of Defense; Pierre L'Enfant, the French-born engineer...
...destroying one Jap cruiser, nine destroyers, one submarine, one auxiliary vessel, one cargo vessel, one minelayer, four barges and 30 enemy planes. Each time he got an order for movement, he gave the same reply: "Proceeding at 31 knots." Later, he became chief of staff to Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher, planned and executed carrier attacks on Iwo Jima, Okinawa and Tokyo. Twice the flagship was hit, and twice he led rescue parties to the men trapped below. Burke ended the war with a chestful of medals, including a Navy Cross, two Distinguished Service Medals, two Legion of Merits...
...autumn nights off the Philippines in 1944, the late Admiral Marc A. Mitscher used to talk about a postwar supercarrier that could be a mobile base for long-range bombers. From those talks grew a dream that would have top priority in Navy plans for a decade...
...views upon his superiors, Admirals Raymond A. Spruance and William F. Halsey, in the great battles of the Philippine Sea and Leyte Gulf-both occasions when too much of the Japanese fleet got away. In all naval war there has been no bolder or more dramatic decision than Mitscher's, in the Philippine Sea, to violate the hallowed blackout rule and light up the fleet like Coney Island to help homing flyers find their carriers. Characteristically, he took this crushing responsibility with only four words uttered in an almost inaudible voice: "Turn on the lights." Two years later...