Word: mitscher
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...desk. He wore khaki shorts, and an open-necked shirt with the five stars of a fleet admiral on the points of his collar. He was waiting. Radio Tokyo went off the air, came on again, screaming about the approach of U.S. planes. Then the Navy signal was flashed. Mitscher's attack had begun...
...daybreak on Saturday, April 18, 1942, a bald, slight naval officer with a skin like a dried red apple stood on the bridge of the aircraft carrier Hornet, 850 miles from Tokyo. Marc Andrew Mitscher, muffled in blues, was the captain of the ship; he had small part in the decision reached by Lieut. Colonel James H. Doolittle (at his side) and Vice Admiral William F. Halsey (aboard the nearby carrier Enterprise) to fly 16 B-25 medium bombers off the Hornet for the first stunt raid on Japan's capital...
...Hornet was at the bottom of the ocean. So were the Lexington, the Yorktown and the Wasp. The Enterprise was at Pearl Harbor, recovering from a year's accumulation of battle wounds. There was only one U.S. carrier fit for actioa in the Pacific, the old Saratoga. Marc Mitscher, now a rear admiral, was sweating in open-necked khakis in a Dallas hut by the Lunga River on Guadalcanal, commanding land-based aircraft in the Solomons...
...Truk. The new team was tuned up in training raids against Marcus and Wake Islands. It showed its power in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands. But not until Kwajalein was secured did the seaborne air power of the U.S. Navy show its immense reach. Then Admirals Spruance and Mitscher set off with the fast carriers and fast battleships to neutralize Truk. Task Force 58 was on its road to glory...
...Airman Mitscher was sure that the war in the western Pacific would not stop, and as he spoke, the jittery Japs got proof: four-engined bombers which they identified as B-29 Superfortresses droned in ones & twos over the Tokyo area. They dropped no bombs, and eventually the Japs figured it out: the big planes were on reconnaissance, looking-among other things-for crippled Jap ships in Yokosuka navy yard, where they might have fled from Mitscher's flyers a week earlier...