Howdy folks,
I was wondering if, among this great pool of talent and experience we have around here, anyone has ever run across any sources for diagrams and/or descriptions that explain the basic disposition of ships in standard invasion task force. You know, something that shows how the ships involved- transports, support ships and armed escorts- were actually arranged on the ocean in relation to each other? I am particularly interested in WWII vintage especially on the Japanese side.
I'm not thinking about Normandy or Okinawa scale operations. Just more modest endeavors on the scale of Special Naval Landing Forces (SNLF) and Combined Special Naval Landing Forces (CSNLF) that invaded and occupied such places as Rabaul, Tarawa, Makin Island, Lae and Salamaua, Saipan and Guam, etc..
Even thought they were modest in scale they still involved hefty numbers of ships that had to have been arranged in certain proscribed formations while transiting from place to place.
I pretty much understand how a carrier task group was set up- with a couple of rings of escorts surrounding a core of 3 or 4 carriers. I guess an invasion task group was set up similarly except the core would have been what- the transports and other auxiliary and support vessels?
Thanks!
MR
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