United States Pacific Fleet
Fleet · United States · from February 1, 1941
The US Navy's main fleet in the Pacific, based at Pearl Harbor from 1940; its battleships were wrecked on 7 December 1941, leaving its carriers to fight the war of 1942 under Admiral Chester Nimitz.
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Sub-units 14
- Ship USS Saratoga
- Ship USS Wasp
- Task force Task Force 17
- Task force Task Force 16
- Task force Task Force 61 (1942)
- Ship USS Essex
- Ship USS Lexington (CV-16)
- Ship USS Princeton
- Ship USS Yorktown (CV-10)
- Ship USS Bunker Hill
- Ship USS Intrepid
- Ship USS Hornet (CV-12)
- Task force Fast Carrier Task Force
- Ship USS Franklin
People who served 2
Strength and losses
Movements
- September 1, 1939 – September 2, 1945 World War II
- December 7, 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor Pearl Harbor: battleships sunk or damaged at their moorings Map
- December 7, 1941 – September 2, 1945 Pacific War
- February 1, 1942 Marshalls–Gilberts raids
- March 13, 1942 Invasion of Salamaua–Lae
- April 18, 1942 Doolittle Raid
- May 4–8, 1942 Battle of the Coral Sea
- June 4–7, 1942 Battle of Midway
- August 7, 1942 – February 9, 1943 Guadalcanal campaign
- August 24–25, 1942 Battle of the Eastern Solomons
- October 25–27, 1942 Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands
- February 17–18, 1944 Operation Hailstone
- June 19–20, 1944 Battle of the Philippine Sea
- October 23–26, 1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf
- April 1 – June 22, 1945 Battle of Okinawa
- April 6 – June 22, 1945 Operation Kikusui
- April 7, 1945 Operation Ten-Go
- July 1945 Attack on Yokosuka
- July 28, 1945 Attacks on Kure and the Seto Inland Sea
- June 25, 1950 – July 27, 1953 Korean War
- September 11, 2001 War on terror