I really enjoyed The Fleet at High Tide. Admirals Spruance and Mitscher were true heroes in the Pacific War. But Halsey got all the prress. Hornfischer pointed out correctly there is no class of Halsey ships in the USN. Funny that...
That’s a good book. Ian Toll’s books on the Pacific War are also excellent.
Marc Mitscher is the admiral who perfected the tactics that made the Fast Carrier Task Force an immensely powerful weapon that could move at will as it hunted down the Imperial Navy. The original drive-by killer. He and McCain’s grandfather swapped command of the Fast Carriers as Halsey and Nimitz alternated command.