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...flyer shot down off Leyte was rescued by guerrillas, and when he returned to the fleet he bore word of how relatively weak the Japanese were in the Visayas. Halsey conferred with Vice Admiral Mitscher, then commanding Task Force 38, and with Nimitz. Soon he was on his way to see MacArthur, who agreed to a new plan of invading the Philippines in October instead of December, and at Leyte instead of Mindanao...
Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey had ridiculed the Jap air force as fifth or sixth rate, "instead of third rate." Vice Admiral Marc A. ("Pete") Mitscher had said that suicide planes were "not more than 2% effective . . . they don't worry us very much." But the weight of the Navy's own evidence seemed to indicate that the admirals might have been indulging in the ancient game of fanning the breeze. Navy censors passed a less cheery opinion in a dispatch from Stanley Woodward, burly, globe-trotting sports editor of the New York Herald Tribune: "There...
...Grew. Since then the Navy has admitted that 19 ships have been hit by suicide planes, including the carriers Bunker Hill and Saratoga, and one unidentified carrier to which Admiral Mitscher transferred his flag after the Bunker Hill was hit. The destroyer Mohan was announced sunk, the cruiser Nashville and two more destroyers damaged in December. Two ships were admittedly hit in March, seven in April, four in May, one in June. Presumably others among the 80-odd ships hit during the Okinawa battle were victims of suicide pilots. Radio Tokyo says all Jap pilots now are suicidal...
Admiral's Escape. Vice Admiral Marc A. ("Pete") Mitscher, boss of the whole vast Task Force 58, happened to be away from his usual perch on a high chair on the flag bridge, where some officers and men of his staff were killed. Two other places where Mitscher might have been were hit -an office and his living quarters, where all his clothing except "the uniform he was wearing was destroyed. Soon Mitscher had to transfer by boatswain's chair to the destroyer English, which flew his three-starred flag with unaccustomed pride. Mitscher soon went to another...
Last week "Pete" Mitscher came home from the Okinawa campaign. He was "embarrassed" by rumors that he had been killed; he was tired but very much alive. He had fought long & hard for the past five months in the Pacific...