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Task Force 35
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1944/03 - 04
1944/09 - STALEMATE
1945/07
1945/08 - Homeland Occupation

1944/03 - 04
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TG 35.6
DD Woodworth, Buchanan
MS 5

44/03/22 35.6 departed Guadalcanal area
44/04/0? 35.6 arrived P.H.

1944/09 STALEMATE
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CTF RAdm Walden L. Ainsworth (ComCruDiv9)
CL CruDiv9 (RAdm Walden L. Ainsworth): Honolulu/FF,DF
CruDiv12 (RAdm Robert W. Hayler): Denver/DF, Cleveland, Columbia
DD DesRon56 Heywood L. Edwards, Leutze, Bennion, Ross
DesDiv111: Albert W. Grant, Newcomb, Richard P. Leary
DesDiv112: Bryant, Robinson
44/09/01 CruDiv12 joined from TG 32.12
night battle practice off Tulagi
44/09/02 exercises off Guadalcanal
44/09/03 various exercises off Guadalcanal
returned to Port Purvis, Tulagi

1945/07
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45/07/18 35.2 shell Nodzima Cape off Tokio

TG 35.3
RAdm J. Cary Jones
CL CruDiv17: Wilkes-Barre, Pasadena, Springfield, Astoria II
DD DesRon53: DesDiv105: Cushing II, Uhlmann, Colahan
DesDiv106: Twining, Wedderburn, Stockham

TG 35.4
45/07/18 - 19
CTG RAdm Carl F. Holden
CL CruDiv18: Topeka, Duluth, Oklahoma City, Atlanta II
DD Walker
DesRon62: DesDiv123: English, Ault
DesDiv124: Hank, Wallace L. Lind
45/08/08
CA/CL CruDiv?
DD Abbot

45/07/18 35.4 detached from TF 38 for antishipping sweep of Sagami Nada entrance and Nojima-zaki radar station bombardement
Hank and Wallace L. Lind mistakenly shell Gabilan
45/07/19 35.4 shell radar installations at Cape Nojima, Honshu
45/07/24 35.3 shell seaplane base Kushimoto & airfields near Shino Misaki (S Honshu) - Colahan mistakenly shell Toro on lifeguard station S of Shikoku
45/07/25 35.3 shell Kushimoto seaplane base & airfields near Shino Misaki (S Honshu)
45/08/08 35.4 detached from TF 38 to investigate surface targets reported 63 miles from main force

1945/08 Support Force of the Third Fleet - Homeland Occupation
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CA St. Paul
CruDiv10: Quincy II/DF
TG 35.1
CL CruDiv17: Pasadena, Wilkes-Barre, Springfield

TG 35.80
DE Waterman (from 08/21), Kyne

TG 35.90
BB West Virginia

45/08/23 35.1 created
45/08/24 35.90 departed Buckner Bay, Okinawa for Tokio Bay
45/08/27 35.1 - Sagami Wan
45/08/30 35.90 -arrived Tokio Bay
45/09/01 35.1 - entered Tokio Bay

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