OPERATION GRATITUDE    1/12/45 – 1/23/45

(STRIKE INDOCHINA )

Task Group 38.1
CARRIERS
(CV): Wasp, Yorktown, Essex
(CVL): Cowpens
BATTLESHIPS
(BB): Massachusetts, South Dakota
CRUISERS
(CA): Boston (CruDiv10), Baltimore, San Francisco
(CL): Santa Fe
DESTROYERS
DesRon 53: DesDiv105: Cushing II, Uhlmann, Colahan, Halsey Powell, Benham II; DesDiv106: Yarnall, Twining, Wedderburn, Stockham
DesRon 61: DesDiv121: De Haven II, Mansfield, Lyman K. Swenson, Collett, Maddox II; DesDiv122: Blue II, Brush, Taussig, Samuel N. Moore

Task Group 38.2
CARRIERS
(CV): Hornet, Hancock, Lexington
BATTLESHIPS
(BB): New Jersey, Wisconsin
CRUISERS
(CL): San Juan (CruDiv17), Wilkes-Barre, Pasadena, Astoria II
DESTROYERS
Desron52: DesDiv103: the Sullivans, Stephen Potter, Tingey, Miller, Owen;
DesDiv104: Hunt, Marshall
DesRon62: DesDiv123: Ault, English, Waldron, Haynsworth, Charles S. Sperry; DesDiv124: Wallace L. Lind, John W. Weeks, Hank

Others:
CARRIERS
(CV): Ticonderoga
(CVL): Cabot, Independence
BATTLESHIPS
(BB): Washington
CRUISERS
(CL): Flint, Biloxi, San Diego, Vincennes II, Miami
DESTROYERS
Buchanan, Hazelwood, Dyson, Hobby
DesRon47: DesDiv93: McCord, Trathen; (DesDiv94) Haggard, Franks
DesRon50: DesDiv99: Cotton, Gatling, Healey;
DesDiv100: Cogswell, Caperton, Ingersoll, Knapp
DesRon55: DesDiv109: Porterville, Callaghan, Cassin Young, Preston II;
DesDiv110: Longshaw, Pritchett, Laws

Sources:  History of United States Naval Operations in World War II by Samuel Eliot Morison;  and  http://pacific.valka.cz/forces/tf58.htm (excerpted) (kudos to that great site. we especially like their organization of destroyers into Squadrons and Divisions.)