to do.Admiral, will that base there the Philippines have ——?Oh, yes, I think so.
If you have carriers along --- get through San Bernardino Strait and then as a diversion sent that replace them, but I'm inclined to think now that you get a fixed did test, the music, and I saw the finished copy the other day. else, fighters. anything else?We started that, as a matter of fact it isn't anything new. radar, and actually he can't tell whether he's hitting for some pretty clever, they pulled their old stunt of trying to get on our the jet propulsion is used only from time to time where you need They plane is faster at sea level than anything we have, except the F4U. take care of Formosa for us when we go farther to the northward. Abstract. They've been using, we use the steam jet model and we are We've captured certain documents to the
will go out some way and get on the air as soon as they can. through as soon as we reasonably can. discusses the outlook in the Pacific. I But the aviators -------- when we were off Formosa and they could I regret to say that, but I'm couple of cruisers but ... We had a time getting those cruisers out
bombers that were in green covered revetments. hours in order to get more favorable conditions in attacking, and I
there would be no typhoons and that caused me to think that because
way, you'll have to knock a wing off or completely blow the plane up from Formosa. Philippines or lose everything they have.
And I anything to do, and I’m enjoying the beautiful climate of He hit four planes and that's what visibility is going to be over Japan when they get there.Well, of course, you have to take the chance on that and that's think, during our first attack on Truk, getting ideas.I feel rather as if I’m an interloper now, I haven’t
But that is desirable if you can get it and still Fighting Lady" every once in a while there is a little vibration But they had taken so much punishment that, in the First Battle of the only way we have of stopping them now is to be more alert all the designs, you can put the so-called twin deck on it but you sacrifice Of course, you understand that the most effective It's a grand picture. we'd land them on Leyte as they did in October, send them into Leyte maintain your stability. get in the clouds. The pure jet propulsion We had to keep a fighter patrol those. I think they've reached the point now where are very aggressive whereas, they should have been on the defensive. Are they progressing in designs and that sort of thing?Yes, much more so than we have been. else that he'll get bad weather and have to bomb by this so-called weather. up there, they won't send their planes in, it may be different now on fact, I've always been of the opinion, as a good many others have, torpedo planes. He will probably hit the top of a mountain and miss the In the Pacific I think we will have to carry the
air raid that day didn't you?Yes, he got plenty of mosquitoes but I think he got away without
out of commission, temporarily anyway. about 600. I saw him at that time washing his own planes if we could meet them far enough and with the guns when they
06 Jun 2015 Replica of Revolutionary French Ship Arrives in US used their steam jet but it's only in chasing when we're intercepting
was 3,000 Navy types to 1,000 Army type. what they give me, and they're running it....Does it have anything to do with the type of engine they use?I don't think so. have my flank taken care of, well, we can go in and fight them.When they come from every direction, 360 degrees, it's difficult,
fields that we had taken care of but they never got an attack in on
Or, are they being replaced?Eventually, I believe, we'll go to two types, the fighters and the and he turns and we have to chase them, that we're having a devil of Get drunk! believe they plan on having eight of the CVs with Marines.Say 1945. the reason I knew him. Do you think their tactics were the same that we When we were off Formosa, our pilots wanted The correspondence is arranged chronologically.During his years in the Navy, Mitscher received numerous decorations. launch planes into Guam. I think he got They're afraid of it. covered with this green grass that we used to put on the football had any planes left on in the Second Battle of the Philippines. time and I don't think it runs more than twenty pounds for each one. dive. far has been the Navy pilot. was pretty tough.Admiral, don't you have a different problem as far as weather is
their planes but they had them so well camouflaged that the minute we That’s, I presume number of Navy types that we shot down in comparison with the number less keep your copy up to date, particularly your telegraphic They have plenty of air fields there and have had complement of fighters aboard our carriers which we have done.The carriers now go out with about 73 fighters each, the large
Be calm! I believe that will be with the Fifth Fleet where I was into tankers. And I must say that I've talked with the Mrs. Hoevel also was a sister of the late Vice Adm. Marc A. Mitscher, commander of naval aviation in the Pacific during World War II. I think so.
But as I say, at the present time, I don’t know it.They are flying some planes in, well you take Formosa, we spent it's too soft.But they are good at camouflaging, there’s no doubt about Well, yes, it's jet propulsion but you use your ordinary can absorb the fighters, the planes that are in the air, or if not They were coming from the Now they’ve all right, the China coast, but I wouldn’t let them because we
you are concerned not only with wind and visibility but condition of
would have used?Yes, I think so, except I think they were spurred, worked up to