OPERATION HAILSTONE  (2/17 – 2/19)

RAID on TRUK

Task Group 58.1
CARRIERS
(CV): Enterprise, Yorktown II
(CVL): Belleau Wood
CRUISERS
(CL): Santa Fe (CruDiv13), Mobile, Biloxi, Oakland
DESTROYERS
DesDiv99: Clarence K Bronson, Cotten, Dortch, Gatling, Healy;
DesDiv100: Caperton, Cogswell, Ingersoll, Knapp

Task Group 58.2
CARRIERS
(CV): Essex, Intrepid
(CVL): Cabot
CRUISERS
(CA): San Francisco, Wichita, Baltimore
DESTROYERS
DesDiv103: Owen, the Sullivans, Stephen Potter;
DesDiv104: Hunt, Lewis Hancock, Hickox

Task Group 58.3
CARRIERS
(CV): Bunker Hill
(CVL): Monterey, Cowpens
BATTLESHIPS
(BB): Iowa, New Jersey
CRUISERS
(CA): Wichita
DESTROYERS
Izard,
DesDiv91: Conner, Bell, Charette, Burns;
DesDiv92: Bradford, Brown, Cowell

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.)