The Flight to the Land Beyond the North Pole - A Copy of the Diary of Admiral Richard B. BYRD The reader of the following documentation should find a striking example of dire devotion. Especially when one considers that this log diary was written in the year 1947 in the months of February...
February 10:TheEssexraised anchor at Ulithi and headed for Japan as a part of the Fifth Fleet under Admiral Raymond A. Spruance. This would be the first carrier-based attacks on the Japanese Mainland since the Doolittle raids of April 18, 1942. Commander F. K. Upham moved into the positi...