OPERATION FORAGER 6/6/44 – 8/15/44
MARIANA ISLANDS
Includes: The BATTLE OF THE PHILIPPINE SEA
(The GREAT MARIANAS TURKEY SHOOT)
Task Group 58.1
CARRIERS
(CV): Hornet II, Yorktown II
(CVL): Belleau Wood, Bataan
CRUISERS
(CA): Boston (CruDiv10), Baltimore, Canberra
(CL): San Juan, Oakland, Denver, Santa Fe
DESTROYERS
DesRon6: DesDiv11: Maury, Craven, Gridley, Helm, McCall;
DesRon46: DesDiv 91: Izard, Charette, Conner, Bell, Burns;
DesDiv92: Boyd, Bradford, Brown, Cowell
Task Group 58.2
CARRIERS
(CV): Bunker Hill, Wasp II, Franklin
(CVL): Monterey, Cabot
CRUISERS
(CL): Santa Fe, Mobile, Biloxi, San Juan
DESTROYERS
Selfridge, Patterson, Brown
DesRon1: DesDiv1: McDonough, Dewey, Hull;
DesDiv 2: Farragut, Aylwin
DesRon52: DesDiv103: Owen, Miller, The Sullivans, Tingey, Stephen Potter;
DesDiv104: Marshall, MacDonough, Lewis Hancock, Hunt, Hickox
Task Group 58.3
CARRIERS
(CV): Enterprise, Lexington II
(CVL): San Jacinto, Princeton
CRUISERS
(CA): Indianapolis
(CL): Reno, Montpelier (CruDiv12), Cleveland, Birmingham
DESTROYERS
DesRon45: DesDiv90: Anthony, Braine, Terry, Wadsworth
DesRon50: DesDiv99: Clarence K. Bronson, Cotton, Dortch, Healy, Gatling;
DesDiv100: Caperton, Cogswell, Ingersoll, Knapp
Task Group 58.4
CARRIERS
(CV): Essex
(CVL): Langley, Cowpens, Princeton, Belleau Wood
BATTLESHIPS
(BB): Alabama, Iowa, Indiana, New Jersey
CRUISERS
(CL): San Diego (CruDiv11), Vincennes (CruDiv14), Miami, Houston
DESTROYERS
Case,
DesRon8: DesDiv15: Lang, Sterett, Wilson, Ellet;
DesRon12: DesDiv24: Landsdowne, Lardner, McCalla
DesRon23: DesDiv45: Charles Ausburne, Stanly, Dyson;
DesDiv46: Converse, Spence, Thatcher
DesRon52: Miller, The Sullivans, Owen, Marshall, Tingey, Stephen Potter
Task Group 58.7 – The BATTLE LINE
BATTLESHIPS
(BB): Washington (BatDiv6), North Carolina, Iowa (BatDiv7), New Jersey, South Dakota (BatDiv9), Alabama, Indiana (BatDiv8)
CRUISERS
(CA): Wichita (CruDiv6), Minneapolis, New Orleans, San Francisco
DESTROYERS
Mugford, Ralph Talbot, Patterson, Bagley, Halford, Guest, Bennett, Fullam, Hudson, Yarnall, Twining, Stockham, Monssen
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.)