CARRIER WARLieut. Oliver Jensen, U.S.N.R.Simon & Schuster ($2.50) and Pocket Books (50¢).
At daybreak on Saturday, April 18, 1942, a bald, slight naval officer with a skin like a dried red apple stood on the bridge of the aircraft carrier Hornet, 850 miles from Tokyo. Marc Andrew Mitscher, muffled in blues, was the captain of the ship; he had small part in the decision reached by Lieut. Colonel James H. Doolittle (at his side) and Vice Admiral William F. Halsey (aboard the nearby carrier Enterprise) to fly 16 B-25 medium bombers off the Hornet...
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