
Task Force 58
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- Cover
- Book Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Explanatory Notes
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Naval Aviation - Genesis
- Chapter 2 Prelude to War in the Pacific -A Little Bit of Background
- (i) The Political Situation in 1930s Japan - Manchuria
- (ii) Palau
- (iii) Truk
- Chapter 3 The Fast Carriers Begin to Appear
- (i) USA
- (ii) Japan
- (iii) US Preparations
- (iv) The US Pacific Fleet Moves to Hawaii
- Chapter 4 Let Loose the Dogs of War
- (i) 7 December 1941 - Japan's Surprise Attack on Pearl Harbor
- Chapter 5 1942 - The US Navy Goes to War - The Coral Sea and Midway
- (i) Command Appointments
- (ii) Early US Fast-Carrier Operations, 1942
- (iii) Halting the Japanese Expansion
- (a) Battle of the Coral Sea, 4-8 May 1942
- (b) Battle of Midway, 3-7 June 1942
- Chapter 6 From Defence to Offence - The Guadalcanal Campaign, 7 August 1942-9 February 1943
- (i) Battle of the Eastern Solomons, 24-5 August 1942
- (ii) Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 26 October 1942
- (iii) Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, 12-15 November 1942
- (iv) US Fleet Reorganisation Post Guadalcanal, March 1943
- Chapter 7 Summer of 1943 - The Allies Begin to Move West Across the Pacific
- (i) Allied Timetable of Operations - Rainbow 5
- (ii) Two-prong Advance Across the Pacific
- (iii) The Japanese Position Deteriorates, Reorganisation and New Carriers
- Chapter 8 US Fast Carriers and Naval Aircraft
- (i) The Fast Carriers
- (ii) US Navy Aircraft
- (a) Fighters
- (b) Dive-bombers
- (c) Torpedo-Bombers
- Chapter 9 Late 1943 - The Isolation of Rabaul - The Central Pacific Drive Begins
- (i) The Isolation of Rabaul - Operation CARTWHEEL, 13 June 1943-20 March 1944
- (ii) The Battle of Empress Augusta Bay - Operation CHERRYBLOSSOM, 1-2 November 1943
- (iii) The Gilbert and Marshall Islands Campaign - theCentral Pacific Drive
- (a) Strike Force Composition
- (b) Battle of Tarawa, 20-8 November 1943
- (c) Battle of Makin, 20-3 November 1943
- Chapter 10 Task Force 58 is Formed - The Gilbert and Marshall Islands Campaign Continues
- (i) Rear Admiral Marc 'Pete' Mitscher Takes Command, 23 December 1943
- (ii) Service Squadrons 4 and 10
- (iii) Task Force 58 is Formed, 6 January 1944
- Chapter 11 Central Pacific Drive, 1944 -The Gilbert and Marshall IslandsCampaign Continues
- (i) The Invasion of Kwajalein and Majuro Atolls -Operation FLINTLOCK, 29 January 1944-7 February 1944
- (a) The Invasion of Majuro Atoll, 31 January 1944
- (b) The Invasion of Kwajalein Atoll
- (ii) The Invasion of Eniwetok Atoll - OperationCATCHPOLE, 17 February 1944
- (iii) Task Force 58 Smashes Truk - Operation HAILSTONE,17-18 February 1944
- a) DOG-DAY-MINUS-ONE, 17 February 1944
- (b) DOG-DAY, 18 February 1944
- Chapter 12 Preparations for the Mariana and Palau Islands Campaign
- (i) Scouting the Marianas
- (ii) The First Air Assault on Palau - OperationDESECRATE 1, 30 and 31 March 1944
- (a) K-DAY, 30 March 1944
- (b) K-DAY PLUS ONE, 31 March 1944
- (c) Aftermath
- (iii) The Hollandia and Aitape Landings - OperationsRECKLESS and PERSECUTION, 22-7 April 1944
- (iv) Fast-Carrier Strikes Against Truk, 29-30 April 1944
- Chapter 13 The Mariana and Palau Islands Campaign - Operation FORAGER, June-November 1944
- (i) Battle of Saipan, 15 June-9 July 1944
- (ii) First Battle of the Philippine Sea, 19-20 June 1944
- Chapter 14 Prelude to the Philippines Campaign
- (i) Guam and Tinian, July 1944
- (a) 2nd Battle of Guam, 21 July-10 August 1944
- (b) Battle of Tinian, 24 July-1 August 1944
- (c) Aftermath
- (ii) Aerial Photo-reconnaissance and the 2nd Palau AirAssault - Operation SNAPSHOT, 23-30 July 1944
- (iii) Raiding the Jimas and the Bonins, August 1944
- (iv) Task Force 38 is Formed
- (vi) Japan
- Chapter 15 The Battles of Peleliu and Angaur - Operation STALEMATE II, September-November 1944
- (i) Operation STALEMATE II, 15 September-27 November 1944
- Chapter 16 The Philippine Campaign - Second Battle of the Philippine Sea, Leyte Gulf
- (i) The Battle of Leyte Gulf, 23-6 October 1944
- (a) Prelude to Battle - Initial Submarine Action in the PalawanPassage, 23 October 1944
- (b) Battle of the Sibuyan Sea, 24 October 1944
- Chapter 17 The Liberation of the Philippines - Corking the Luzon Bottleneck
- Chapter 18 Raiding Tokyo and the Invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, February-April 1945
- (i) Raiding Tokyo and the Invasion of Iwo Jima - OperationDETACHMENT, February-March 1945
- (ii) Invasion of Okinawa - Operation ICEBERG,1 April-22 June 1945
- Chapter 19The Final Assault on Japan -Operation DOWNFALL,1 November 1945-7 (Projected)
- (i) Invasion of Kyushu - Operation OLYMPIC,1 November 1945 (Projected)
- (ii) Invasion of Honshu - Operation CORONET, 1 March1946 (Projected)
- (iii) Endgame
- (iv) Aftermath
- Appendix Dramatis Personae
- (i) Fleet Admiral Ernest Joseph King (23 November1878-25 June 1956)
- (ii) Fleet Admiral Chester William Nimitz (24 February1885-20 February 1966)
- (iii) Fleet Admiral William Frederick Halsey Jr, KBE(30 October 1883-16 August 1959)
- (iv) Admiral Raymond Ames Spruance (3 July1886-13 December 1969
- (v) Admiral John Henry Towers (30 January1885-30 April 1955)
- (vi) Admiral Marc Andrew Mitscher (26 January1887-3 February 1947)
- (vii) Admiral John Sidney McCain Sr (9 August1884-6 September 1945)
- (viii) Admiral Frederick Carl Sherman (27 May 1888-27 July1957)
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover
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