Operations Reckless and Persecution

OPERATIONS RECKLESS and PERSECUTION   4/19/44 – 5/4/44

Includes: HOLLANDIA LANDING

Task Group 58.1
CARRIERS
(CV): Hornet II
(CVL): Belleau Wood, Cowpens, Bataan
BATTLESHIPS
(BB): New Jersey
CRUISERS
(CL): Oakland, San Juan, Santa Fe, Mobile
DESTROYERS
DesRon46: DesDiv92: Boyd, Brown, Bradford
DesRon6: DesDiv11: Gridley, McCall, Craven, Maury

Task Group 58.2
CARRIERS
(CV): Bunker Hill, Yorktown II
(CVL): Cabot. Monterey
CRUISERS
(CA): Boston (CruDiv10), San Francisco, Wichita, Canberra II
DESTROYERS
Aylwin, MacDonough:
DesRon52: DesDiv103: the Sullivans, Stephen Potter, Miller, Owen, Tingey; DesDiv104: Lewis Hancock, Hickox, Marshall, Hunt

Task Group 58.3
CARRIERS
(CV): Enterprise, Lexington II
(CVL): Princeton, Langley II
BATTLESHIPS
(BB): North Carolina, Indiana, Massachusetts (BatDiv8); South Dakota, Alabama (BatDiv9)
CRUISERS
(CA): Louisville, Portland
DESTROYERS
DesRon23: DesDiv45: Charles Ausburne, Dyson; (DesDiv46) Converse, Spence, Thatcher;
DesRon50: DesDiv99: Clarence K. Bronson; Cotton, Dortch, Gatling, Healy; DesDiv100: Cogswell, Caperton, Ingersoll, Knapp

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.)