Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 (The Pacific War Trilogy Book 3)

by Ian W. Toll

At 11:00 a.m., Spruance pulled the plug. He told Mitscher to recover all planes and retire to support the landings on Iwo Jima. By 4:00 that afternoon, the task force was speeding away to the south.