The Fast Carrier Task Force (TF 38 when assigned to Third Fleet, TF 58 when assigned to Fifth Fleet) was a group of ships in World War II. It was the...

light carriers became available, which required larger formations of three or four carriers. These groups eventually formed the Fast Carrier Task Force, which...

Pacific, she served primarily as an escort for the fast carrier task force to protect the aircraft carriers from surface and air attacks. She also frequently...

admiral in the United States Navy, and served as commander of the Fast Carrier Task Force in the Pacific during World War II. Mitscher was born in Hillsboro...

relying on the protection of a Fast Carrier Task Force. However, at the Battle off Samar, one U.S. task force of escort carriers and destroyers managed to...

A joint task force is a "joint" (multi-service) ad hoc military formation. The task force concept originated with the United States Navy in the 1920s...

sailors of the Fast Carrier Task Force nicknamed them the "Jocko Jimas". Clark commanded his task group in conjunction with the rest of Task Force 58 in the...

she spent the war primarily as an escort for the fast carrier task force to protect the aircraft carriers from surface and air attacks. In this capacity...

From 1943 onward, she was primarily occupied with screening the fast carrier task force, though she also occasionally shelled Japanese positions in support...

transferred back to the Pacific, where she primarily operated with the fast carrier task force, contributing her heavy anti-aircraft armament to its defense....