Mitscher knew the pilots could not possibly spot her deck. At flight quarters, each flattop steamed out into the wind with her escorts, sometimes disappearing over the horizon.
The raid went well enough, considering all the problems in getting it launched. The fighters and bombers climbed to 19,000 feet, flying at 125 mph. When the bombers and fighters reached their supposed position, Nagumo and his carriers were not in sight. “Let’s give them more light.” Two search Mitscher ordered his carriers to turn on all lights, a danger with enemy submarines lurking nearby. Half of the ditched airmen were rescued that night, and another 59 on the day after the battle, but 16 pilots and 3 crewmen were lost. Running low on gas, Gee landed on the Enterprise, and unaware of his relative inexperience, the Enterprise sent him off on a long-range search mission. The fighters, Grumman Wildcats, were first; Rodee’s scouts in the Dauntlesses followed; then Johnson’s divebombers, also in Dauntlesses; and lastly Waldron’s heavy-bellied torpedo planes.It took almost an hour for the launching and Mitscher bent over the railing, occasionally giving an order, and following each plane off with his eyes. “Let’s give them more light.” Two search beams climbed into the air over the Hornet; a string of lights outlined the flight deck to port.Henderson said, “Captain, there must be subs here.” “The hell with the subs,” Mitscher said, straining to glimpse the aircraft as they approached and finally landed.He had thought Stan Ring was lost.
After establishing nothing less than full-spectrum naval dominance on June 19th, 1944, the 20th would see the U.S. Navy having a very difficult time locating the main body of the Japanese fleet, always the most critical and most frustrating activity in the Pacific War. On 1 March 1946 he was appointed commander of the new 8th Fleet (Atlantic), with the rank of full admiral. Mitscher pushed on, holding an easterly course at high speed to land his planes. Como por milagre, uma a uma , as vitoriosas mas exaustas tripulações americanas pousaram a bordo, no limite de seu combustível . Although the attack on Ozawa’s fleet was an unequivocal success, the “long flight back and the night recovery,” were “disastrous.” 4 In his action report, Spruance declared he based his decision on lack of information about the enemy and the risk “of a night encounter with possibly superior enemy forces.” He thought another enemy carrier might be lurking nearby. He was captain of the Early in 1944 Mitscher was promoted to vice-admiral and given command of Task Force 58, the fast carrier force of the main US fleet in the Pacific. There just might be a couple of Japanese submarines out there, licking their chops and slapping high fives as they saw those lights come on. So little resistance was encountered that the Americans decided to skip the invasion of Mindanao and move the invasion of Leyte forward by two months into October 1944. [u]o[size=75] oO[/size][size=100]JMO[/size][size=50]Oo[/size][img]http://users.telenet.be/honeybee1/grote_moto.gif/img] [/u] I see your point but nonetheless I believe you're wrong about the Battle of the Philippine Sea and Mitscher’s risk taking. pictures and descriptions make my day. of Marc Mitscher's decision to "turn on the lights" late June 20, 1944, the end of the Battle of the Philippine Sea. One Yorktown pilot wobbled toward the Hornet and crashed down in a grind of ripping metal, his machine guns accidentally peppering the island structure.Minutes later, the officer of the deck reported to Mitscher: five dead and twenty wounded. Waldron was his type of man. Some, of the planes had run out of gas and crash landed in Midway’s lagoon; others had re-gassed at Midway. With his pilots desperate for any kind of assistance, Admiral Marc Mitscher made a gutsy call, the kind we pay flag officers to make.
He ordered the entire carrier fleet illuminated, and the dark Pacific night suddenly turned to daylight, as every light in the fleet was turned on to guide the fliers. There’s no use his worrying when we’ve got a war to fight.”Douglas TBD Devastator Torpedo Bombers get ready for launch. “Tell him right away. The tragedy of this brought him great personal grief.”In the Action Report to Nimitz, in which he nominated the entire squadron for the Medal of Honor, Mitscher wrote: Just prior to launching he [Waldron] had reported to the commanding officer for final instructions and had stressed the point that his squadron was well trained and ready and that he would strike his blow at the enemy regardless of consequences.
Then Mitscher spoke into the bridge microphone: “We intend to launch planes to attack the enemy while their planes are still returning from Midway. Direct hits have been scored on their battleships and cruisers.”It was growing dark, and the Hornet, blacked out, soon blended into the night.
However, Mitscher, Henderson recalls, felt that the task force should have steamed westward in pursuit of the Japanese.On June 5, Mitscher launched twenty-six bombers for a strike against the still burning carriers and battleships. His uncle, None of the Hornet pilots had qualified in night carrier landings.“Turn on the truck lights,” Mitscher ordered. Her planes had destroyed the Yorktown and could do the same to the Enterprise and the Hornet. “How are they?” Mitscher asked. HistoryNet.com contains daily features, photo galleries and over 5,000 articles originally published in our various magazines.
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