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Task Force 67
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x Guadalcanal
x Tassafaronga
Munda Bombardement 43/01/04
Guadalcanal Bombardement 1943/01/19
Munda Bombardement 1943/01/23
1943/02

x Guadalcanal
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CTF RAdm Richmond Kelly Turner
TG 67.1 - Transport Group
CTG RAdm Richmond Kelly Turner
APA McCawley/FF, President Jackson, President Adams, Crescent City
TG 67.2 - Landing Group
CTG RAdm Norman Scott
CL Atlanta
DD DesRon12: Aaron Ward/SF, Lardner, McCalla
Maury, Fletcher, Barton, Monssen
TG 67.3 - Surface Attack Group - 42/11/08 - 11/11
CA Portland
CL Juneau
DD Monssen, Barton, O'Bannon
TG 67.4
CTG RAdm Daniel Judson Callaghan
CA San Francisco/GF, Pensacola (till 11/10), Portland (from 11/11)
CL Helena, Juneau (from 11/11)
DD DesDiv10 (Cdr Thomas Murray Stokes): Cushing/DF
till 11/10: Preston, Gwin
Laffey, Sterett, Buchanan, Shaw (from 11/11)

42/11/08 67.3 departed Noumea
42/11/09 Departed Noumea with convoy for Guadalcanal
42/11/10 0520 - 67.4 departed Esp. Santo
1800 - 67.4 - Pensacola, Preston and Gwin detached to join TF 16
42/11/11 0630 - 67.3 dissolved
    67.4 - Portland, Juneau, Buchanan, Shaw joined from 67.3
arrived to Guadalcanal with convoy - San Francisco damaged by plane crash
2200 - 67.4 entered Seelark Channel and headed to Savo Island
42/11/12 1230 - 67.4 - Cushing and Buchanan sinking about 25 enemy landing craft
1830 - 67.1 departed eastward
x Guadalcanal : sunk Atlanta, Monssen, Laffey,
disabled Aaron Ward, Sterett
sinking Judaci, disabling Hiei, Amacukaze
42/11/13 Juneau sunk
42/11/14 arrived Esp. Santo

x Tassafaronga
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CTF Radm Thomas C. Kinkaid (42/11/24-42/11/28), from 42/11/28 RAdm Carleton H Wright
TG 67.2
DD DesDiv9 Cdr L. Abercrombie: Lamson
Lardner
TG 67.2.2
CTG RAdm Carleton H. Wright
CA Minneapolis(FF,GF), New Orleans, Pensacola
TG 67.2.3
CTG RAdm Mahlon S. Tisdale
CA Northampton
CL Honolulu/GF
TG 67.2.3
CTG Cdr William M. Cole
DD Fletcher, Drayton, Maury, Perkins

42/11/29 departed Noumea
42/11/30 x Tassafaronga:
sunk Northampton (09-12S, 159-50E), damaged Minneapolis
42/12/02 Drayton arrived Esp. Santo with survivors

Munda Bombardment 43/01/04
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CTF RAdm Walden L. Ainsworth
CL Nashville/FF, St Louis, Helena, Achilles (RNZN)
DD Fletcher, O'Bannon, Nicholas
TG 67.2
DD Fletcher, O'Bannon

43/01/04 departed Esp. Santo
43/01/05 shell Munda
attacked by aircraft - Achilles disabled by bomb 18 nm S of Cape Hunter, Guadalcanal

Guadalcanal Bombardement 1943/01/19
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DD Nicholas
TG 67.5
DD Radford

43/01/19 shell Guadalcanal

Munda Bombardement 1943/01/23
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RAdm Walden L. Ainsworth
CL Nashville/FF, Helena
DD Nicholas, De Haven, Radford, O'Bannon
43/01/24 DDs shell fuel and munitions dumps in the Stanmore area, Kolombangara

1943/02
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RAdm Walden L. Ainsworth
CL 4: St. Louis, Honolulu, Helena
DD Strong (from 02/13)
DesRon21 Radford, De Haven, Fletcher
DesDiv41: Nicholas, Taylor

43/02/01 DesDiv21 cover 2nd Battalion/InfReg132 landing at Verahue, Guadalcanal
De Haven sunk by planes (09-09S, 159-52E), Nicholas damaged by near misses
43/02/1? renumbered to TF 18
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