Gulf Sea Frontier
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Organized 6 February 1942 the Gulf Sea Frontier was headquartered at Key West, Florida, and was later moved to Miami, Florida on 17 June 1942. Captain Russell S. Crenshaw was Commander of the Gulf Sea Frontier until June 3, 1942, when he was replaced by Rear Admiral James L. Kauffman.
During World War II, it was responsible for protecting the waters of Florida and the Bahamas as well as the Gulf of Mexico, the Yucatan Channel and areas near Cuba.
Gulf Sea Frontier was designated in official records:
- GULFSEAFRON – Gulf Sea Frontier.
- COMGULFSEAFRON – Commander, Gulf Sea Frontier.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
Admiral Earnest J. King, First Report to the Secretary of the Navy: Covering our Peacetime Navy and our Wartime Navy and including combat operations up to 1 March 1944. April 1944, pp. 75-88.
Samuel Eliot Morrison, History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, The Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1943. ISBN 0-7858-1302-0
[edit] External links
- U-boat Archive - Eastern Sea Frontier
- U-boat Archive - Eastern Sea Frontier - War Diary March 1942
- Glossary of U.S. Naval Abbreviations (OPNAV 29-P1000)
- Naval Operations in the Atlantic and Mediterranean to March 1944
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