Word: mitscher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MAGNIFICENT MITSCHER (364 pp.)-Theodore Taylor-Norton...
There was nothing outwardly magnificent about Marc Andrew Mitscher, boy or man. A dull student in Oklahoma City schools, he was dropped from Annapolis as a disciplinary problem, got back in only to graduate at the "wooden end of the line." "Pete" Mitscher was already bald and beginning to look wizened when, at 29, he won his wings. Thereafter, throughout the monotonous, between-war years of fitness reports and training procedures, he lived only for naval aviation. As the first U.S. Navy officer assigned to command flying operations from the deck of a ship (the converted collier Langley), Pete Mitscher...
...Cautious? Reduced to 35 planes and minus two carriers, Ozawa hightailed it out of the Philippine Sea. Yet, since he had saved the bulk of his 55-ship fleet, Spruance and Mitscher felt small joy. Had Spruance been overly cautious? No, says Morison, he had the Saipan beachhead to think of. "Military men never get any credit for guarding against dangers that might occur yet do not; but they are quickly 'hanged' if they fail adequately to guard against dangers that do occur-witness Pearl Harbor." Moreover, Morison argues, the battle was fully as decisive as Ozawa thought...
...originally laid down as a light cruiser herself (therefore christened with the name of a city, like all U.S. cruisers), the Norfolk is almost as big as the British Dido class (5,770 tons) cruisers, far outclasses the next largest destroyer; the U.S. 3,675-ton Mitscher scheduled for launching in about a month...
...Micronesia, the aircraft carrier came of age. Whereas the Americans were reduced to one flattop in the Solomons in late 1942, they took 16 to the Marshalls in early 1944. Two weeks after Kwajalein, Admiral Marc Mitscher's Task Force 58 smothered the great base at Truk with 568 planes, and sank 200,000 tons of shipping (biggest single day of the war). The Navy, abetted by U.S. industry, had found -in amphibious expertness and carrier proficiency-the twin weapons that would lead to victory...