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The Sixth Fleet was established in February 1950 by redesignation of the former Sixth Task Fleet, which in turn was the 1948 redesignation of U S Naval Forces, Mediterranean. [3] Since that time, it has been continually engaged in world affairs around the Mediterranean, and, on occasion, further afield.
During the 1986 confrontation with Libya, that led to Operation El Dorado Canyon, the Sixth Fleet's battle force was under the command of Rear Admiral David E. Jeremiah. [2] Task Group 60.1 under Rear Admiral J.C. Breast was made up of the Coral Sea and her escorts, Task Group 60.2 under Jeremiah, the Saratoga and her escorts, and Task Group 60 ...
USS Forrestal (CV-59) and her task force—commanded by Commander, Carrier Group Six—commenced her 21st and final operational deployment on 30 May 1991. During this period she provided air power presence and airborne intelligence support (the airwing flew over 900 sorties over Iraq) to the Combined Joint Task Forces of Operation Provide ...
Jeffrey Thomas Anderson [1] (born c. 1969) is a United States Navy vice admiral who serves as the commander of the United States Sixth Fleet and Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO. He previously served as the director of operations of United States Indo-Pacific Command and commander of Carrier Strike Group 3 .
Depending on the missions to be undertaken, Task Force 65 employs surface warships, submarines, aircraft, SEAL teams, U.S. Marines, U.S. joint forces, and NATO forces assigned to the Sixth Fleet's area of operations to keep open the sea lines of communications throughout the U.S. European Command's area of responsibility. [3]
Task Force 61 (CTF-61) is a task force of the United States Navy that today denotes what used to be designated the Mediterranean Amphibious ready group (MARG) of the United States Sixth Fleet. It is composed of approximately three Amphibious assault ships , but in 2008 is designated the Expeditionary Strike Group that includes their embarked ...
Civilian victims were Mrs. Andrew L. Clark, 62, who was alone in her home at 211 Colonial Court, where a major portion of the plane fell, and James LaRoy Hollabaugh, 29, adopted son of Mrs. Agnes Nilsson Grove of 1920 Maryland Avenue. Both of those houses were destroyed by fire but Mrs. Grove escaped with burns on her feet and abrasions on her ...
Gilla Gerzon (Hebrew: גילה גרזון), known to many United States military personnel as the "mother of the 6th fleet," [1] [2] is an Israeli who served as director of the Haifa, Israel USO for almost eighteen years, from the time it opened in December 1984 [2] until it closed in September 2002 when U.S. security concerns for the region led to a sharp decrease in U.S. ship visits.