Operations Flintlock and Catchpole

OPERATIONS FLINTLOCK and CATCHPOLE   1/20/44 – 2/28/44

MARSHALL ISLANDS

Task Group 58.1
ROI-NAMUR LANDING

CARRIERS
(CV): Enterprise, Yorktown II
(CVL): Belleau Wood
BATTLESHIPS
(BB): Washington, Indiana, Massachusetts
CRUISERS
(CL): Oakland
DESTROYERS
Clarence K Bronson;
DesDiv99: Cotten, Dortch, Gatling, Healy;
DesDiv100: Cogswell, Ingersoll, Knapp

Task Group 58.2
MALOELAP LANDING

CARRIERS
(CV): Essex, Intrepid
(CVL): Cabot
BATTLESHIPS
(BB): North Carolina (BatDiv6), South Dakota, Alabama
CRUISERS
?
DESTROYERS
Owen, Hunt
DesDiv103: the Sullivans, Stephen Potter;
DesDiv104: Lewis Hancock, Hickox

Task Group 58.3
ENIWETOK LANDING

CARRIERS
(CV): Bunker Hill
(CVL): Monterey, Cowpens
BATTLESHIPS
(BB): Iowa, New Jersey
CRUISERS
(CA): Wichita
DESTROYERS
Izard
DesDiv91: Conner, Bell Charette, Burns; Bradford
DesDiv92: Brown, Cowell

Task Group 58.4
WOTJE LANDING

CARRIERS
(CV): Saratoga
(CVL): Langley II, Princeton
CRUISERS
(CA): Boston (CruDiv10), Baltimore
DESTROYERS
Gridley, Dunlap
DesDiv11: McCall, Craven, Maury
DesDiv12: Fanning, Ellet

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.)