OPERATION KING II 8/26/44 – 10/31/44
The PHILIPPINES
SECOND BATTLE OF THE PHILIPPINE SEA
(INCLUDES LEYTE LANDING )
Task Group 38.1
CARRIERS
(CV): Wasp II, Hornet II, Yorktown II, Hancock
(CVL): Cowpens, Monterey
CRUISERS
(CA): Chester (CruDiv5), Salt Lake City, Pensacola, Wichita, Boston (CruDiv10), Canberra
(CL): San Diego, Oakland, Houston
DESTROYERS
Tingey, Miller
DesRon4: Fanning, Case, Cummings, Cassin, Downes Dunlap
DesRon12: McCalla, Farenholt, Woodworth, Grayson
DesRon46: DesDiv91: Izard, Conner, Bell, Charette, Burns;
DesDiv92: Boyd, Brown, Cowell
DesRon50: DesDiv100: Caperton, Cogswell, Ingersoll, Knapp
Task Group 38.2
CARRIERS
(CV): Intrepid, Bunker Hill, Hancock
(CVL): Cabot, Independence
BATTLESHIPS
(BB): Iowa (BatDiv7), New Jersey
CRUISERS
(CL): Vicennes II (CruDiv14), Oakland, Miami, San Diego
DESTROYERS
DesRon52: DesDiv103: the Sullivans, Owen, Stephen Potter, Tingey, Miller;
DesDiv104: Lewis Hancock, Marshall, Hickox, Hunt
DesRon53: DesDiv105: Colahan, Cushing II, Uhlmann, Halsey Powell, Benham II; DesDiv106: Twining, Wedderburn, Stockham, Yarnall
Task Group 38.3
CARRIERS
(CV): Lexington II, Essex, Ticonderoga
(CVL): Langley II, Princeton
BATTLESHIPS
(BB): Washington, Massachusetts (BatDiv8), Indiana; South Dakota (BatDiv9), Alabama
CRUISERS
(CL): Santa Fe (CruDiv13), Mobile, Reno, Birmingham
DESTROYERS
DesRon50: DesDiv99: Cotton, Dortch, Gatling, Healy, Porterfield, Clarence Bronson
DesRon55: DesDiv109: Callaghan, Cassin Young, Callaghan, Preston II, Irwin; (DesDiv110) Longshaw, Morrison, Pritchett, Laws
Task Group 38.4
CARRIERS
(CV): Enterprise, Franklin
(CVL): San Jacinto, Belleau Wood
BATTLESHIPS
(BB): Washington, Alabama, South Dakota
CRUISERS
(CA): New Orleans (CruDiv6), Wichita (from 10/21)
(CL): Biloxi
DESTROYERS
DesDiv26: Wilkes, Nicholson, Swanson, Marshall, Miller
DesRon6: DesDiv11: Maury, Gridley, McCall, Helm, Craven;
DesDiv12: Ralph Talbot, Mugford, Patterson, Bagley
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.)