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During the Korean War, Task Force 77 performed a number of combat deployments, where it provided air support and performed interdiction missions as part of the UN forces. . Task Force 77 had carrier stations in both the Sea of Japan (East Coast Task Force) and the Yellow Sea (West Coast Task Force, designated Task Force 95), the latter consisting of carriers of the Royal Navy (RN), Royal ...
1.1.1 Central Philippines Attack Force (Task Force 77) ... Rear Adm. Forrest B. Royal Attack cargo ship Capricornus Attack Group "Baker" (Task Group 79.2): Right beaches
Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid in amphibious command ship Wasatch. Task Force 77 (Central Philippines Attack Force) Vice Admiral Kinkaid Task Group 77.2 Rear Admiral Jesse B. Oldendorf in heavy cruiser Louisville Task Unit 77.2.2 (Left Flank) Rear Admiral Jesse B. Oldendorf 3 heavy cruisers 1 Northampton-class (9 × 8-in. main battery)
The courageous determination and the superb teamwork of the officers and men who fought the embarked planes and who manned the ships of Task Unit 77.4.3 were instrumental in effecting the retirement of a hostile force threatening our Leyte invasion operations and were in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service. [96]
As dawn approached, the ships of Task Force 34 drew ahead of the carrier groups. Halsey intended Mitscher to make air strikes followed by the heavy gunfire of Lee's battleships. [79] Around dawn on 25 October, Ozawa launched 75 aircraft, the bulk of his few aircraft, to attack Third Fleet.
Yankee Station (officially Point Yankee) was a fixed coordinate off the coast of Vietnam where U.S. Navy aircraft carriers and support ships operated in open waters over a nine-year period during the Vietnam War. The location was used primarily by aircraft carriers of Task Force 77 to launch strikes over North Vietnam. While the coordinate's ...
Task Force 70. Task Group 70.6 Fleet Air Wing One. VP-1 7 August 1950 – 13 November 1950; April 1951 – 29 August 1951; VP-6 27 July 1951 – 15 January 1952; VP-28 14 July 1950 – 10 August 1950; 28 March 1951 – 11 October 1951; 26 May 1952 – 1 December 1952; VP-28 Detachment Able 11 October 1951 – 13 December 1951; VP-42 19 July ...
Operation Linebacker was the codename of a U.S.Seventh Air Force and U.S. Navy Task Force 77 air interdiction campaign conducted against North Vietnam from 9 May to 23 October 1972, during the Vietnam War.