Rebuilt as the USS Hornet CV-12, this new carrier continued the fight, joining Task Force 58 in critical Pacific operations, including the famed “Marianas Turkey Shoot” during the Battle of ...

On Iwo Jima the battle ground forward ... Vice Admiral Marc Andrew Mitscher took the famed fast carrier Task Force 58 into Japanese home waters, and sent off air strikes against airfields around ...

Over two years would pass until the Allies reached their great turning point in the Pacific War ... known as the Battle of the Philippine Sea, American and Japanese carriers fought a two-day ...

Mark Stille, the veteran author of numerous books on naval history, among them Pacific Carrier War ... the make-up of the Japanese force, its course and schedule. This enabled Nimitz to put his ...

His focus is on security and defense issues in the Western Pacific ... aircraft carrier participated in large-scale drills near the self-ruled island of Taiwan, staging a show of force to the ...

Multidomain task force units have since participated in U.S. Indo-Pacific Command exercises that have helped inform the Army’s Multidomain Operations warfighting concept, which has now evolved ...