CARRIER FORCE TO CLAIM SKIES FOR U.S.
Ulithi Atoll, Western Pacific · February 10, 1945 On this date in 1945 Task Force 58 under Vice Adm. Marc “Pete” Mitscher, assigned to U.S. Adm. Raymond Spruance’s Fifth Fleet, steamed out of its anchorage at Ulithi Atoll in the Caroline Islands, 1,700 miles/2,736 kilometers south of the main Japanese island of Honshū. Except for the Coral…