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Task Force 62
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from 42/06/15 PhibGrpSoPac
"WATCHTOWER" -Landing Force + x Savo
Guadalcanal Reinforcements
x Rennell Is.
Funafuti Landing 1942/10/02
1943/01 - 1943/02
"CLEANSLATE" - Russell Islands Landing

from 42/06/15 PhibGrpSoPac
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CTF RAdm Mc Cawley
CA Australia, Canberra, Chicago
CL Hobart

"WATCHTOWER" -Landing Force + x Savo
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CTF RAdm Richmond Kelly Turner
CA Chicago, Australia(RAN), Vincennes, Quincy, Astoria, Canberra(RAN)
CL San Juan, Hobart(RAN)
DD Wilson, Jarvis, Blue, Ralph Talbot, Bagley, Patterson, Monssen, Buchanan, Helm, Henley, Ellet, Selfridge, Mugford, Hull
DMS MineRon2: Hopkins/SF
MineDiv4: Trever, Zane
MineDiv5: Southard, Hovey
DM Tracy
APD TransDiv12: Little/DF, McKean, Gregory, Calhoun
AP George F. Elliot, President Hayes
APA Fuller, President Jackson, Neville, Hunter Liggett, Heywood, Zelin, McCawley, Barnett, Nevelle, American Legion, President Adams, Crescent City
AKA Bellatrix, Formalhaut, Athena, Betelgeuce, Libra
AK Alchiba
TG 62.2 - Southern Group
RAdm Victor A.C. Crutchley (RAN)
CA Australia/GF, Canberra, Chicago
DD Patterson, Bagley, Blue
TG 62.3 - Northern Group, Fire Support Group L
Cap Frederick L. Riefkohl
CA Vincennes/GF, Astoria, Quincy
DD Helm, Wilson
X-Ray Group
DD Dewey, Mugford
AP Betelgeuce
TG 62.4 - Yoke Group, Eastern Group
CTG Radm Norman C. Scott
CL San Juan, Hobart
DD Monssen, Buchanan
APA Neville
TG 62.6 = TF 44 Transport Escort Group
DD DesRon4: Selfridge, Ralph Talbot, Henley

42/07/22 Wellington
42/07/24 62.6 arrived Kono Is (Fiji)
42/07/27 62.3 - Vincennes joined from TF 11
42/07/28 Fiji - landing rehersals
42/07/30 Fiji - landing rehersals off Koro Is.
42/07/31 departed Fiji to Guadalcanal
42/08/07 Guadalcanal landing, strike 4.kokutai > damage Mugford (09-00S, 160-00E)
42/08/08 attacked by 4th & Misawa kokutai - sunk AP George F Elliot (09-10S, 160, 10E), disabled Jarvis (09-10S, 160-01E), damaged AP Barnett
42/08/09 x Savo - sunk: Astoria, Quincy, Canberra
strike Misawa kokutai - sunk Jarvis (09-42S, 158-59E)
62.4 - escort unloaded transports to Noumea
X-Ray Group plus Chicago and Patterson departed for Noumea
42/08/10 arrived Noumea
42/08/14 X-Ray Group plus Chicago and Patterson arrived Noumea
42/08/19 62.2 departed Noumea for Guadalcanal
42/09/01 62.2 detached from Watchtower again as TF 44

Guadalcanal Reinforcements
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TG 62.? - Maybe different TF
RAdm Richmond Kelly Turner
AP Zeilin, McCawley
APD 8
42/10/09 62.? departed Noumea for Guadalcanal InfReg164 onboard
42/10/13 arrived Guadalcanal
TG 62.4 - 42/10/28 - 42/10/30
AP Zeilin
AK Libra, Betelgeuse

42/10/30 62.4 unloading off Lunga Point

TG 62.2
AP 6
43/01/0? 62.2 reinforce Guadalcanal

x Rennell Is.
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TG 62.8
DD 4
AP 4

Funafuti Landing 1942/10/02
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CA Chester

42/10/02 5th Defense Battalion, USMC occupies Funafuti (Ellice Islands)

1943/01 - 1943/04
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DM Tracy (02/1?-04/19)
TG 62.4
TU 62.4.7
DD Anderson
transports
TG 62.8
AP ??

43/01/23 Espiritu Santo - sail to Guadalcanal
43/01/29 Anderson + Wilson - shell and photo reconnaissance northern part of Guadalcanal
62.8 en route to Guadalcanal covered by TF 18
43/02/03 back in Espiritu Santo
"CLEANSLATE" - Russell Islands Landing
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TG 62.7
TU 62.7.2
CTU Cap Ingolf N. Kiland
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