Task Force 58: the US Navy's fast carrier strike force that won the war in the Pacific
The new breed of American fast aircraft carriers could make thirty-three knots, and each carried almost 100 strike aircraft. Brought together as Task Force 58, also known as the Fast Carrier Task Force, this awesome armada at times comprised more than 100 ships carrying more than 100,000 men afloat....
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| Zusammenfassung: | The new breed of American fast aircraft carriers could make thirty-three knots, and each carried almost 100 strike aircraft. Brought together as Task Force 58, also known as the Fast Carrier Task Force, this awesome armada at times comprised more than 100 ships carrying more than 100,000 men afloat. By 1945, more than 1,000-combat aircraft, fighters, dive- and torpedo-bombers could be launched in under an hour.The fast carriers were a revolution in naval warfare - it was a time when naval power moved away from the big guns of the battleship to air power projected at sea. Battleships were eventually subordinated to supporting and protecting the fast carriers, of which, at its peak, Task Force 58 had a total of seventeen.This book covers the birth of naval aviation, the appearance of the first modern carriers in the 1920s, through to the famous surprise six-carrier _Kidō Butai_ Japanese raid against Pearl Harbor on 8 December 1941 and then the early US successes of 1942 at the Battles of the Coral Sea and Midway. The fast carriers allowed America, in late 1942 and early 1943, to finally move from bitter defense against the Japanese expansionist onslaught, to mounting her own offensive to retake the Pacific.Task Force 58 swept west and north from the Solomon Islands to the Gilbert and Marshall Islands, neutralizing Truk in Micronesia, and Palau in the Caroline islands, before the vital Mariana Islands operations, the Battle of Saipan, the first battle of the Philippine Sea and the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot. The strikes by Task Force 58 took Allied forces across the Pacific, to the controversial Battle of Leyte Gulf and to Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Task Force 58 had opened the door to the Japanese home islands themselves - allowing US bombers to finally get close enough to launch the devastating nuclear bombing raids on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Task Force 58 participated in virtually all the US Navy's major battles in the Pacific theater during the last two years of the war.Having spent many years investigating naval shipwrecks across the Pacific, many the result of the devastating effectiveness of Task Force 58, diver and shipwreck author Rod Macdonald has created the most detailed account to date of the fast carrier strike force, the force that brought Japan to its knees and brought the Second World War to its crashing conclusion.-- |
| Beschreibung: | First published: Great Britain : Frontline Books, 2021 |
| Beschreibung: | xvi, 504 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten (schwarz-weiß) |
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| adam_text | Contents Explanatory Notes Introduction Chapter 1 x xiv 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 1 13 16 21 22 Chapter 3 The Fast Carriers Begin to Appear (i) USA (ii) Japan (iii) US Preparations (iv) The US Pacific Fleet Moves to Hawaii 24 24 25 29 35 Chapter 4 Let Loose the Dogs of War (i) 7 December 1941 - Japan s Surprise Attack on Pearl Harbor (ii) Japan s Second Offensive 43 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 49 54 56 56 59 65 65 81
Chapter 6 Chapter 7 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 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 the Central Pacific Drive Begins, Operation GALVANIC, 20-8 November 1943 (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 106 110 115 120 123 125 127 130 132 136 136 143 143 151 156 159 159 162 167 171 174 178 182 182 184 185
Chapter 11 Central Pacific Drive, 1944 - The Gilbert and Marshall Islands Campaign 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 - Operation CATCHPOLE, 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 - Operation DESECRATE 1, 30 and 31 March 1944 (a) К-DAY, 30 March 1944 (b) K-DAY PLUS ONE, 31 March 1944 (c) Aftermath (iii) The Hollandia and Aitape Landings Operations RECKLESS 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 190 190 194 195 197 199 209 224 235 235 238 248 264 267 272 272 279 286 296 330 330 330 334 334
(ii) Aerial Photo-reconnaissance and the 2nd Palau Air Assault - Operation SNAPSHOT, 23-30 July 1944 (iii) Raiding the Jimas and the Bonins, August 1944 (iv) Task Force 38 is Formed (v) New Carriers and New Planes (vi) Japan Chapter 15 The Battles of Peleliu and Angaur - Operation STALEMATE II, September-November 1944 (і) Operation STALEMATE II, 15 September27 November 1944 335 337 338 346 353 356 358 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 Palawan Passage, 23 October 1944 (b) Battle of the Sibuyan Sea, 24 October 1944 (c) Battle of the Surigao Strait, 24-5 October 1944 (d) Battle off Samar, 25 October 1944 (e) Battle off Cape Engaño, 25 October 1944 380 382 394 398 404 Chapter 17 The Liberation of the Philippines - Corking the Luzon Bottleneck 413 367 370 Chapter 18 Raiding Tokyo and the Invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, February-April 1945 427 (i) Raiding Tokyo and the Invasion of Iwo Jima Operation DETACHMENT, February-March 1945 433 (ii) Invasion of Okinawa - Operation ICEBERG, 1 April-22 June 1945 438 Chapter 19 The 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 March 1946 (Projected) (iii) Endgame (iv) Aftermath 452 457 459 459 467
Appendix Dramatis Personae (i) Fleet Admiral Ernest Joseph King (23 November 1878-25 June 1956) Fleet Admiral Chester William Nimitz (ii) (24 February 1885-20 February 1966) (iii) Fleet Admiral William Frederick Halsey Jr, KBE (30 October 1883-16 August 1959) (İv) Admiral Raymond Ames Spruance (3 July 1886-13 December 1969) (v) Admiral John Henry Towers (30 January 1885-30 April 1955) (vi) Admiral Marc Andrew Mitscher (26 January 1887-3 February 1947) (vii) Admiral John Sidney McCain Sr (9 August 1884-6 September 1945) (viii) Admiral Frederick Carl Sherman (27 May 1888-27 July 1957) 469 469 470 471 473 474 474 475 475 Notes 477 Select Bibliography 488 Index 494
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Contents Explanatory Notes Introduction Chapter 1 x xiv 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 1 13 16 21 22 Chapter 3 The Fast Carriers Begin to Appear (i) USA (ii) Japan (iii) US Preparations (iv) The US Pacific Fleet Moves to Hawaii 24 24 25 29 35 Chapter 4 Let Loose the Dogs of War (i) 7 December 1941 - Japan's Surprise Attack on Pearl Harbor (ii) Japan's Second Offensive 43 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 49 54 56 56 59 65 65 81
Chapter 6 Chapter 7 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 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 the Central Pacific Drive Begins, Operation GALVANIC, 20-8 November 1943 (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 106 110 115 120 123 125 127 130 132 136 136 143 143 151 156 159 159 162 167 171 174 178 182 182 184 185
Chapter 11 Central Pacific Drive, 1944 - The Gilbert and Marshall Islands Campaign 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 - Operation CATCHPOLE, 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 - Operation DESECRATE 1, 30 and 31 March 1944 (a) К-DAY, 30 March 1944 (b) K-DAY PLUS ONE, 31 March 1944 (c) Aftermath (iii) The Hollandia and Aitape Landings Operations RECKLESS 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 190 190 194 195 197 199 209 224 235 235 238 248 264 267 272 272 279 286 296 330 330 330 334 334
(ii) Aerial Photo-reconnaissance and the 2nd Palau Air Assault - Operation SNAPSHOT, 23-30 July 1944 (iii) Raiding the Jimas and the Bonins, August 1944 (iv) Task Force 38 is Formed (v) New Carriers and New Planes (vi) Japan Chapter 15 The Battles of Peleliu and Angaur - Operation STALEMATE II, September-November 1944 (і) Operation STALEMATE II, 15 September27 November 1944 335 337 338 346 353 356 358 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 Palawan Passage, 23 October 1944 (b) Battle of the Sibuyan Sea, 24 October 1944 (c) Battle of the Surigao Strait, 24-5 October 1944 (d) Battle off Samar, 25 October 1944 (e) Battle off Cape Engaño, 25 October 1944 380 382 394 398 404 Chapter 17 The Liberation of the Philippines - Corking the Luzon Bottleneck 413 367 370 Chapter 18 Raiding Tokyo and the Invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, February-April 1945 427 (i) Raiding Tokyo and the Invasion of Iwo Jima Operation DETACHMENT, February-March 1945 433 (ii) Invasion of Okinawa - Operation ICEBERG, 1 April-22 June 1945 438 Chapter 19 The 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 March 1946 (Projected) (iii) Endgame (iv) Aftermath 452 457 459 459 467
Appendix Dramatis Personae (i) Fleet Admiral Ernest Joseph King (23 November 1878-25 June 1956) Fleet Admiral Chester William Nimitz (ii) (24 February 1885-20 February 1966) (iii) Fleet Admiral William Frederick Halsey Jr, KBE (30 October 1883-16 August 1959) (İv) Admiral Raymond Ames Spruance (3 July 1886-13 December 1969) (v) Admiral John Henry Towers (30 January 1885-30 April 1955) (vi) Admiral Marc Andrew Mitscher (26 January 1887-3 February 1947) (vii) Admiral John Sidney McCain Sr (9 August 1884-6 September 1945) (viii) Admiral Frederick Carl Sherman (27 May 1888-27 July 1957) 469 469 470 471 473 474 474 475 475 Notes 477 Select Bibliography 488 Index 494 |
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| spelling | Macdonald, Rod 1959- Verfasser (DE-588)1256698237 aut Task Force 58 the US Navy's fast carrier strike force that won the war in the Pacific Rod Macdonald Task Force Fifty Eight Annapolis, Maryland Naval Institute Press 2021 xvi, 504 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten (schwarz-weiß) txt rdacontent sti rdacontent cri rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier First published: Great Britain : Frontline Books, 2021 The new breed of American fast aircraft carriers could make thirty-three knots, and each carried almost 100 strike aircraft. Brought together as Task Force 58, also known as the Fast Carrier Task Force, this awesome armada at times comprised more than 100 ships carrying more than 100,000 men afloat. By 1945, more than 1,000-combat aircraft, fighters, dive- and torpedo-bombers could be launched in under an hour.The fast carriers were a revolution in naval warfare - it was a time when naval power moved away from the big guns of the battleship to air power projected at sea. Battleships were eventually subordinated to supporting and protecting the fast carriers, of which, at its peak, Task Force 58 had a total of seventeen.This book covers the birth of naval aviation, the appearance of the first modern carriers in the 1920s, through to the famous surprise six-carrier _Kidō Butai_ Japanese raid against Pearl Harbor on 8 December 1941 and then the early US successes of 1942 at the Battles of the Coral Sea and Midway. The fast carriers allowed America, in late 1942 and early 1943, to finally move from bitter defense against the Japanese expansionist onslaught, to mounting her own offensive to retake the Pacific.Task Force 58 swept west and north from the Solomon Islands to the Gilbert and Marshall Islands, neutralizing Truk in Micronesia, and Palau in the Caroline islands, before the vital Mariana Islands operations, the Battle of Saipan, the first battle of the Philippine Sea and the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot. The strikes by Task Force 58 took Allied forces across the Pacific, to the controversial Battle of Leyte Gulf and to Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Task Force 58 had opened the door to the Japanese home islands themselves - allowing US bombers to finally get close enough to launch the devastating nuclear bombing raids on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Task Force 58 participated in virtually all the US Navy's major battles in the Pacific theater during the last two years of the war.Having spent many years investigating naval shipwrecks across the Pacific, many the result of the devastating effectiveness of Task Force 58, diver and shipwreck author Rod Macdonald has created the most detailed account to date of the fast carrier strike force, the force that brought Japan to its knees and brought the Second World War to its crashing conclusion.-- USA Navy (DE-588)14543-9 gnd rswk-swf Geschichte gnd rswk-swf Pazifikkrieg 1941-1945 (DE-588)4249775-9 gnd rswk-swf United States / Navy / Task Force 58 / History World War, 1939-1945 / Naval operations, American World War, 1939-1945 / Campaigns / Pacific Area Aircraft carriers / United States / History / 20th century Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 / Opérations navales américaines Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 / Campagnes et batailles / Pacifique, Océan Porte-aéronefs / États-Unis / Histoire / 20e siècle HISTORY / Military / World War II. Military campaigns Military operations, Naval / American Pacific Area 1939-1945 USA Navy (DE-588)14543-9 b Pazifikkrieg 1941-1945 (DE-588)4249775-9 s Geschichte z DE-604 Digitalisierung BSB München - ADAM Catalogue Enrichment application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=033270664&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis |
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