Task Force 11

Task Force 11
TF 11's Saratoga (foreground) conducts aircraft operations with TF 16's Enterprise in the South Pacific in August 1942.
Active
Country	United States
Allegiance	Allies of World War II
Branch	United States Navy
Type	Naval aviation unit
Role	Aircraft carrier support
Engagements	Action off Bougainville Battle of the Coral Sea Battle of the Eastern Solomons Marshall Islands Campaign
Commanders
Notable commanders	Aubrey Fitch Frank Jack Fletcher

Task Force 11 is a designation used by the United States military for two separate units.

Contents 1 World War II 2 War on Terrorism 3 See also 4 References 4.1 Books 5 External links

World War II

During World War II, Task Force 11 (TF 11) was a United States Navy aircraft carrier task force in the Pacific theater.

TF 11 was originally formed around Lexington, then her sister ship Saratoga until she was disabled by a Japanese torpedo in January 1942, then Lexington again for the Battle of the Coral Sea, then Saratoga after her repairs were completed.

TF 11 — as part of TF 61 along with TF 16 — was involved in the Battle of the Eastern Solomons in late August 1942, but Saratoga was again crippled by a submarine, and the task force shrank to just the carrier and some destroyers.

In September 1943, TF 11 was reorganized around light carriers Princeton and Belleau Wood under Rear Admiral Willis Augustus Lee, and supported landings on Baker Island and Howland Island.

In early 1944, its task groups TG 11.1 and 11.2, now consisting of escort carriers, supported operations in the Marshall Islands.

War on Terrorism

TF 11 is also the designation of a US military special operations team which has been operating under the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in Afghanistan searching for senior Taliban and al-Qaeda HVT. The Unit included elements from Canada's JTF2 as well. JSOC frequently changes the name of the task force, and it has been designated TF 626, and TF 145 with its most recently recorded name being TF 88.

See also

• Task Force 6-26
• Task Force 121
• Task Force 145

References

Books

• Lundstrom, John B. (2006). Black Shoe Carrier Admiral: Frank Jack Fletcher at Coral Sea, Midway, and Guadalcanal. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-59114-475-2. 
• Lundstrom, John B. (2005 (New edition)). First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign: Naval Fighter Combat from August to November 1942. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-59114-472-8. 
• Lundstrom, John B. (2005 (New edition)). The First Team: Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl Harbor to Midway. Annapolis, Maryland, U.S.A.: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 159114471X. 
• Morison, Samuel Eliot (1958 (reissue 2001)). The Rising Sun in the Pacific 1931 - April 1942, vol. 3 of History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Castle Books. ISBN 0785813047. 
• Morison, Samuel Eliot (1949 (reissue 2001)). Coral Sea, Midway and Submarine Actions, May 1942-August 1942, vol. 4 of History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Champaign, Illinois, USA: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-06995-1. 
• Morison, Samuel Eliot (1958). The Struggle for Guadalcanal, August 1942 – February 1943, vol. 5 of History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 0-316-58305-7. 
• Stille, Mark (2007). USN Carriers vs IJN Carriers: The Pacific 1942. New York: Osprey. ISBN 978-1-84603-248-6. 

External links

• Joint Special Operations Command at Globalsecurity.org