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TASK FORCE 77: THE MISSION AND IMPORTANCE OF A TASK FORCE IS DISCUSSED IN THIS PROGRAM. THE VARIOUS
SHIPS THAT
MAKE UP THE GROUP AS WELL AS THE DUTIES OF THE OFFICERS AND
CREW ARE ALSO DEPICTED. SCENES SHOWING
MEN ON DUTY AND AT LEISURE, EMPHASIZE THE TEAMWORK AND COOPERATION THAT MUST EXIST AMONG THEM."
USS Kitty Hawk,
CV-63, is featured.
US Navy film MN-10543
Public domain film from the
US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task_Force_77_(United_States_Navy)
Task Force 77 has been the aircraft carrier battle/strike force of the
United States Seventh Fleet in the
United States Navy (
USN) since the
Seventh Fleet was formed.
Task Group 77.4 was at the centre of the
Battle off Samar in
1944, part of the larger
Battle of Leyte Gulf.
During the
Korean War, Task Force 77 performed a number of combat deployments, where it provided air support and performed interdiction missions as part of the UN forces. Task Force 77 had carrier stations in both the
Sea of Japan (
East Coast Task Force) and the
Yellow Sea (
West Coast Task Force, designated Task Force 95), the latter consisting of carriers of the
Royal Navy,
Royal Australian Navy, and USN escort carriers due to its proximity to the
People's Republic of China.
Seventeen USN, one
RAN, and five RN carriers served in
United Nations carrier operations at some
point in time during the Korean War.
Between conflicts Task Force 77 was held in readiness for supporting
French operations during the siege of
Dien Bien Phu in 1954, and off
Formosa (now
Taiwan) during the several Quemoy-Matsu
Crises. It also conducted limited operations over
Laos in 1962 and 1964 before the commitment of
U.S. combat forces to the
Vietnam War.
During the Vietnam War, Task Force 77 conducted carrier strike operations from the
Gulf of Tonkin and
South China Sea for nine years, from 1964 to
1973. Twenty-one of the
Navy's 23 operational carriers made at least one cruise with the Task Force and served over 9,
100 days on the line.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Seventh_Fleet
The Seventh Fleet is a numbered fleet (a military formation) of the United States Navy. It is a permanently forward deployed force headquartered at
U.S. Fleet Activities
Yokosuka, in
Yokosuka, Japan, with units positioned near
Japan and
South Korea. It is a component force of the
United States Pacific Fleet. At present, it is the largest of the forward-deployed U.S. fleets, with 60 to 70 ships,
300 aircraft and 40,
000 Navy and
Marine Corps personnel.
The Fleet has three major assignments:
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Joint Task Force command in a natural disaster or joint military operation,
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Operational command of all naval forces in the region, and
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Defense of the
Korean Peninsula. In
1994,
7th Fleet was assigned the additional responsibility as
Commander, Combined Naval
Component Command for the defense of South Korea
...
The Seventh Fleet was formed on 15
March 1943 in
Brisbane, Australia, during
World War II, under the command of
Admiral Arthur S. "
Chips" Carpender. It served in the
South West Pacific Area (
SWPA)...
Korean War
Seventh Fleet units participated in all major operations of the
Korean and
Vietnamese Wars. The first Navy jet aircraft used in combat was launched from a Task Force 77 (TF 77) aircraft carrier on 3 July
1950... During the Korean War, the Seventh Fleet consisted of Task Force 70, a maritime patrol force provided by
Fleet Air Wing One and Fleet Air Wing Six,
Task Force 72, the Formosa
Patrol, Task Force 77, and Task Force 79, a service support squadron...
Seventh Fleet represented the first official entrance of the
United States into the Vietnam War, with the
Gulf of Tonkin incident. Between 1950 and
1970, the U.S. Seventh Fleet was known by the tongue-in-cheek nickname "
Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club" since most of the fleet's operations were conducted from the
Tonkin Gulf at the time...
Task Force 77 was the fleet's air arm and would participate in striking
North Vietnamese targets, providing air support to
US forces in
South Vietnam, and mining Hiaphong
Harbor...
[AS OF
2015] Task Force 77 — 7th Fleet
Mine Warfare
Force composed of mine countermeasure, mine hunter, and mine control ships as well as mine countermeasure helicopters (
MH-53). This task force is only activated during specific combat operations and was filled by the Commander of Mine Warfare Command. Mine Warfare Command has now been disestablished and replaced by Navy Mine and
Antisubmarine Warfare Command,
Naval Base Point Loma,
Calif...
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