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"GALVANIC" - Land Based Air Forces
"FLINTLOCK" - Land Based Air Forces
ASW patrols 1944/04-05
Forager
1944/08 - 1944/10 - Northern Marianas Offensive Patrols
"ICEBERG" - British Pacific Fleet
"GALVANIC" - Land Based Air Forces |
CTF RAdm John H. Hoover (ComAirCenPac)
TG 57.2 - Striking Group = 7th Air Force Heavy Bombers
CTG MajGen Willis H. Hale (ComAirFor7)
90x B-24 (11.BG,30.BG)
TG 57.3 - Search & Reconnaissance Group US Navy Land Based Forces
| VP-3
| 6xPB4Y-1
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| VP-53
| 12xPBY-5/A
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| VP-72
| 12xVP-72
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| VB-108
| 12xPB4Y-1
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| VB-137
| 12xPV-1
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| VB-142
| 12xPV-1
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| AV/AVP
| Curtiss, Mackinac, Swan
at Nanomea, Nukufetau, and Funafuiti
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TG 57.4 - Ellice Is Defense & Utility Group = 4th Marine Base Defense Aircraft Wing
BrigGen Lewie G. Merritt
90 fighters:
46.FS P-39Q - Canton Atoll
45.FS P-40N - Baker Atoll
| VS-51
| 8 SBDs and OS2Us
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| VS-65
| 8 SBDs and OS2Us
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| VS-66
| 8 SBDs and OS2Us
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TG 57.7
| 43/11/09
| activated at P.H.
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"FLINTLOCK" - Land Based Air Forces |
CTF RAdm John J. Hoover
USAF - Air Force 7:
6 x BS(H)/11.BG,30.BG: 72xB-24
4 x BS(M)/41.BG: 64xB-25
1 x AS: 24xA-24
3 x FS: 75xP-39,P-40
US Navy Air Force:
4 x VB: 24xPV-1, 24xPB4Y-1
3 x VP: 24xPBY-5/5A,12xPBM-3
1 x VR: 6xPB4Y-1
3 x VS: 18xSBD-5
2 x VMSB: 36xSBD-4
Tasks:
air attacks on Mili, Jaluit, Kwajalein, Maloelap
mining Mili, Jaluit, Kwajalein, Maloelap, Wotje
TG 57.3
TG 57.8
| DD
| Evans (till 05/12), Gansevoort, Frazier
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TG 57.10
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| TU 57.10.9
| DE
| Sanders
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| LST
| LST-127
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| LCI
| LCI-346, LCI-449
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| 44/04/01
| 57.10.9 occupies Ailuk Atoll, Marshalls (NE of Kwajalein)
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| 44/04/02
| 57.10.9 occupies Mejit Is., Marshalls (NE of Kwajalein)
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| 44/04/06
| 57.8 commenced ASW patrols from Majuro to Jaluit, Wotje, Maloelap, Mille
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| 44/05/12
| end ASW patrols
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| 44/05/26
| 57.8 shell Mili Atoll
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TG 57.4
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TU 57.4.11
| CVL
| Monterey
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| DD
| Cummings, Roe
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TG 57.5
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TU 57.5.5
CTU RAdm Walden L. Ainsworth (ComCruDiv9)
| CVE
| Kalinin Bay
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| CL
| Honolulu/UF, Cleveland, Denver
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| DD
| Ross
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| DesRon56
| Leutze, Bennion, Heywood L. Edwards
DesDiv111: Albert W. Grant, Newcomb, Richard P. Leary
DesDiv112: Bryant, Robinson
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TG 57.7
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TU 57.7.4
| DD
| Yarnall
from 07/16: Cony, Benham II
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| DE
| (till 07/16): Cloues, Steele
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TransDiv30
| APA
| Knox/UF, Fuller, Calvert
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| AKA
| Bellatrix
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| AP
| George F Elliot, John Land
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TG 57.19
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TU 57.19.7
| CVL
| Monterey
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| DD
| Lansdowne, Lardner
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TU 57.19.18
| BB
| New Mexico
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| CA
| San Francisco
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| CL
| St. Louis
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| DD
| DesDiv2: Dale, Aylwin, Farragut
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| 44/07/15
| 57.7.4 departed Eniwetok for Saipan
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| 44/07/16
| 57.7.4 - Cloues and Steele disjoined
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| 44/07/19
| 57.7.4 arrived Saipan area
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| 44/07/30
| 57.19.7 departed Eniwetok for P. H.
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| 44/08/03
| 57.19.18 departed Eniwetok for P. H.
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| 44/08/09
| 57.19.18 arrived P. H.
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| 44/08/18
| 57.5.5 departed Eniwetok for Port Purvis, Tulagi
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| 44/08/22
| 57.5.5 arrived Tulagi
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| 44/09/11
| 57.4.11 departed Eniwetok to join TF 38
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| 44/09/17
| 57.4.11 disslolved, ships assigned to departed Eniwetok to join TG 38.1
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1944/08 - 1944/10 - Northern Marianas Offensive Patrols |
| DE
| Seid (10/27-12/25), McCoy Reynolds (09/28-10/2?)
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TG 57.3
TG 57.7
TG 57.9
| CA/CL
| CruDiv6
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| DD
| Smith (09/24-10/0?)
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"ICEBERG" - British Pacific Fleet |
CTF VAdm Sir Bernard Rowlings
TG 57.1 - BatRon1
CTG VAdm Bernard Rawlings
TG 57.2 - CarRon1
CTG RAdm Philip L. Vian
| CV
| Indomitable, Victorious, Indefatigable, Illustrious(do 04/15), Formidable(from 04/15)
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TG 57.4 - CruRon4
CTG RAdm E.J.P. Brind
| CL
| Gambia(RNZN), Uganda, Swiftsure, Black Prince, Euryalus, Argonaut, Quebec (RCN)
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TG 57.8 - Escort
RAdm J.H. Edelston
| DD
| 15: Napier (45/05), Quadrant, Quiberon
DesFlot4, DesFlot24, DesFlot25
DesFlot27: Quilliam
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| 45/03/23
| TF 113 > TF 57 E Ulithi
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| 45/03/23
| departed from Ulithi
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| 45/03/25
| refuel
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| 45/04/01
| D-Day Okinawa
kami.- damage Indefatigable, Ulster
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| 45/04/02
| refuel
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| 45/04/03
| refuel
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| 45/04/04
| refuel
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| 45/04/06
| strike Ishigaki & Mijako, kami.
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| 45/04/07
| strike Ishigaki & Mijako
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| 45/04/08
| refuel
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| 45/04/09
| strike Ishigaki & Mijako
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| 45/04/10
| strike Ishigaki & Mijako
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| 45/04/12
| strike Formosa
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| 45/04/13
| strike Formosa
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| 45/04/14
| refuel - Formidable joined
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| 45/04/15
| refuel
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| 45/04/16
| strike Ishigaki & Mijako
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| 45/04/18
| refuel
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| 45/04/19
| refuel
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| 45/04/20
| strike Ishigaki & Mijako
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| 45/04/23
| arrived Leyte
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| 45/05/01
| sail from Leyte for Okinawa
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| 45/05/04
| BB & CL shell Mijako Is.
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| 45/05/04
| kami.- damage Formidable, Indomitable
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| 45/05/05
| strike Ishigaki & Mijako Is - Noboru Field
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| 45/05/06
| refuel, taking supplies
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| 45/05/08
| off Sakishima Gunto
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| 45/05/09
| Formodable and Victorious damaged by kamikaze
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| 45/05/12
| strike Ishigaki & Mijako
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| 45/05/13
| strike Ishigaki & Mijako
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| 45/05/16
| strike Sakishima Gunto
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| 45/05/17
| strike Sakishima Gunto
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| 45/05/18
| refuel, supplying - Formidable - operation accident in hangar during landing
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| 45/05/20
| Indomitable crash with DD Quilliam
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| 45/05/21
| sail for Manus
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| 45/05/26
| arrived Manus
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| 45/05/28
| TF 57 > TF 37
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