Marc Mitscher
Joining Task Force 58, a reorganized fast carrier strike force under the command of Admiral Marc Mitscher, "Hank" sortied on 10 February. Carrier planes launched massive raids against airfields, aircraft factories, and shipping in the Tokyo area 16 and 17 February in paralyzing diversionary strikes prior to the invasion of Iwo Jima, on 19 February. These raids, launched less than from Tokyo Bay itself, were the first carrier air strikes to hit Japan proper since the Doolittle raid of 1942.