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Captain Arleigh Albert Burke, U.S.N., had a new job: Chief of Staff of Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's superpowerful Task Force 58, and there was not a Navy man in the Pacific to say he did not deserve the job. At 42, the king of the "cans" had become a legend...
Centripetal Blows. How many more Americans must die before Saipan could be cleared of all its original 20,000 to 30,000 defenders, no man could say. But final victory was assured by Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's huge Task Force 58, whose carriers kept supply lanes clear...
...safe and, for a Jap, a sane, solid way to build a reputation. The only trouble was that, no matter how safely an officer tried to set his course, there were obstacles-like calculating Spruance and wizened, air-wise Marc Mitscher. And they were not passive obstacles: they were closing around him like a tightening clamp. They were closing inexorably on the Empire where Shimada had worked so hard and dully to be a great naval captain...
...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...
This week naval airmen heard a rumor about Marc Mitscher that had them quietly simmering. Wizened, solemn little Admiral Mitscher, who has been a naval airman since 1916, who commanded the carrier Hornet, "Shangrila" of the Tokyo raid, who commanded the carrier task forces which spectacularly raided Truk, Guam, Palau, is due-said the rumor-to be yanked out of the Pacific...