Marc mitscher task force 58
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Reviewed by Diana L. Ahmad, Ph.D.
Author of over a dozen books about World War II, Stephen L. Moore adds to his bibliography with a wonderful analysis of the Spring 1945 Pacific Campaign for Okinawa.
Marc mitscher task force 58
As expected by the title of the work, the first chapters are devoted to telling readers who Vice Admiral Marc Andrew “Pete” Mitscher of the United States Navy and Vice Admiral Matome Ugaki of the Imperial Japanese Navy were and their significance to the Battle for Okinawa.
Both men were trained in their respective nation’s naval academies and had decades of experience in their navies.
In World War II, Mitscher, a quiet man who enjoyed reading detective novels, commanded USS Hornet just before the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.
With the ensuing war, Mitscher battled the Japanese in, for example, the Solomon Islands, Midway Island, Leyte Gulf, and the Central Pacific. Mitscher had his first experiences with kamikazes while in command of a carrier task force during the