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"KING II." - Leyte Landing - Southern Attack Force
"MIKE I." - Lingayen Attack Force
"KING II." - Leyte Landing - Southern Attack Force |
CTF RAdm Jesse B. Oldendorf
| BB
| BatDiv2: Tennessee, California, Pennsylvania
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| DD
| Halford, Luce, Hale, Picking, Gansevoort, Chauncey
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| AKA
| Capricornus
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| APA
| Cavalier
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| LSD
| Ashland, Casa Grande
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TG 79.1
TG 79.2
TG 79.3 - Dulag Attack Group
InfDiv7 (MajGen A.V. Arnold)
| DD
| McDermut
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| AGC
| Appalachian/GF
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TG 79.4 - Transport Attack Group "Baker"
| DD
| DesRon49: Wickes, Twiggs
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TG 79.11
| DD
| DesRon54: Melvin, Monssen II
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TG 79.14
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TU 79.14.9
| DD
| DesRon49: Wickes, Twiggs
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| LST
| 12
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TG 79.15
| 44/09/15
| 79.4 departed P.H.
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| 44/10/11
| departed Manus
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| 44/10/14
| 79.2, 79.3, 79.4 departed Manus for Leyte escorted by 77.4.1/CarDiv28
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| 44/10/20
| 79.3, 79.4 with 77.4.1/CarDiv28 arrived Leyte area
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| 44/10/21
| Tennessee damaged in collision with AP-168 Warhawk (10-57N, 125-02E)
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| 44/10/22
| 79.4 - Wickes attacking on sonar contact
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| 44/10/23
| 79.3 - Appalachian disjoined for Humboldt Bay
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| 44/10/25
| Hale transferred to TU 77.4.3
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| 44/10/26?
| 79.14.9 departed Leyte
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| 44/10/27
| California damaged by strafing off Leyte (16-57N, 125-02E)
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| 44/11/01
| 79.14.9 arrived Manus
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| 44/11/04
| 79.15 - departed to Noemfoor Is. to load troops and cargo
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| 44/11/18
| 79.15 arrived Leyte
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| 44/11/25
| 79.15 arrived back to Manus
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"MIKE I." - Lingayen Attack Force |
CTF VAdm Theodore S. Wilkinson
| DD
| Halford, Isherwood
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| DE
| Loeser
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ArmyCorpsXIV
VAdm Wilkinson
A1) Force Flagship
| AGC
| Mt Olympus (till 01/11)
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A2) Landing Group Able - InfDiv37
RAdm I.N. Kiland
| DD
| DesRon22: Robinson
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| DE
| Gilligan
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| LSI
| Kanimbla (RAN), Manoora (RAN), Westralia (RAN)
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TG 79.1
| LSD
| White Marsh (till 01/13)
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TG 79.2 - Attack Group Baker - InfDiv40
RAdm Royal
| DD
| Smith, Sigourney, Saufley, Stembel
DesDiv48 (from 01/05): Bush/DF
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| DE
| Richard W. Suesens
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| LSD
| Casa Grande
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| AGC
| Rocky Mount/GF
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| AKA
| Capricornus
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TG 79.9 - Control Group Able
| DE
| Abercrombie/GF(till 01/09)
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TG 79.11
TG 79.14
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TU 79.14.2
CTU Commo Clifford Greer Richardson (ComTransRon14)
| DD
| Walke II, O'Brien II, Allen M. Sumner, Lang (till 01/11), Foote (from 01/12)
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| DMS
| Southard (till 01/11)
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| DE
| Peiffer, Thomas F. Nickel (from 01/12)
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| APD
| Blessman
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| PF
| Gascoyne (RAN)
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| APA
| 17 (from 01/11 14): Cavalier/UF, Dupage
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| AKA
| 1
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| LSD
| 2
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| KA
| 2
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| 44/11/12
| 79.1 sail from Bougainville to New Guinea for rehearsals
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| 44/12/27
| 79.9, 79.11 departed Manus to Leyte Gulf >
Surigao Strait > Mindanao Sea > Sulu Sea > Lingayen Gulf
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| 44/12/31
| 79.2 departed Manus
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| 45/01/08
| 79.9 entered Lingayen Gulf
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| 45/01/09
| D-Day Lingayen Gulf
79.11 arrived Lingayen Gulf
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| 45/01/10
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79.11.3 - Wickes damaged by aircraft 60nm WSW of Cape Bolinao (16-04N, 118-55E)
79.14.2 formed and departed Lingayen Gulf toward San Pedro Bay, Leyte
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| 45/01/11
| antishipping sweep to San Fernando Harbor
Mt. Olympus departed for Ulithi
79.14.2 - Lang, Southard and 3 APAs detached back to Lingayen Gulf
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| 45/01/12
| 79.14.2 - Foote and Thomas F. Nickel joined
A2) Gilligan, and Richard W. Suesens damaged by kamikaze in Lingayen Gulf (16-20N, 120-10E)
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| 45/01/13
| 79.14.2 arrived Leyte Gulf
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| 45/01/15
| 79.2 back at Leyte Gulf
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