OPERATION DESECRATE I   3/25/44 – 4/1/44

RAID on PALAU

Task Group 58.1
CARRIERS
(CV): Enterprise
(CVL): Cowpens
CRUISERS
(CL): Mobile, Oakland
DESTROYERS
Clarence K Bronson
DesRon50: DesDiv99: Cotten, Dortch, Gatling, Healy;
DesDiv100: Caperton, Cogswell, Ingersoll, Knapp

Task Group 58.2
CARRIERS
(CV): Yorktown II, Lexington II
(CVL): Princeton, Langley II
CRUISERS
(CA): San Francisco
DESTROYERS
DesRon52: DesDiv103: the Sullivans, Miller, Owen;
DesDiv104: Marshall, Hunt, Lewis Hancock, Hickox

Task Group 58.3
CARRIERS
(CV): Bunker Hill
(CVL): Monterey, Cowpens
BATTLESHIPS
(BB): Alabama
CRUISERS
(CA): Canberra II
(CL): San Juan
DESTROYERS
Brown;
DesRon 6: DesDiv11: Gridley, Craven, McCall, Maury;
DesRon23: Thatcher

Task Group 58.4 and 58.5
CARRIERS
(CV): Saratoga
DESTROYERS
Cummings, Dunlap, Fanning, Stanly, Dyson

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.)