According to Truman Hedding, a senior member of Nimitz’s staff (and a former Task Force 58 chief of staff to Mitscher), the CINCPAC found it “difficult to understand taking the task force right into the dangerous semicircle of the typhoon . . . he was very concerned about it and very upset about it, because that is a reflection on your seamanship. That is something that officers usually pride themselves on—being good seamen.”112 Hedding also heard, through the grapevine, that Admiral King was furious, and he “practically tore the Navy Department apart about it.”
