Plate 063 — Naval
REF: BF-NAV-063United States 6th Fleet
US 6th Fleet (USN 6.Fleet)
Mission; Organization; Task Force Battle Force; Amphibious Assault; Marine Expeditionary Unit; Logistics Force; 2 Strategic Missile Deterrence; Land-Based Maritime Patrol Aircraft; Task Force 66/69 Submarine; Warfare; List of ships; History and recent operations
Pearl Harbor Overview
Pearl Harbor Japanese Forces
Pearl Harbor Japanese Aircraft
Battle of the Coral Sea
Doolitle Raid on Japan
Battle of Midway
Midway_Order_of_Battle
Guadalcanal Campaign
Guadalcanal-Tulagi Invasion
Battle of the Philippine Sea
Battle of Okinawa
Japan Capitulates
Torch Operation WW2
WW2 Normandy Invasion, June 1944
Normandy Crossing the Channel
The D-Day Landings, 6 June 1944 www.battle-fleet.com
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- Atlantic Game 1943
- Sink Cruisers Game
- Midway Game
- Iwo Jima Game
- US Marines Game
- Luftwaffe Game Pacific
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- Bismarck Game Pacific
- Destroy RAF Game
- Okinawa
- US Navy Submarine Game
- Fleet Submarines Game
- Kamikaze Game
- U Boat Game
- Singapore Game
- Swordfish Hunt
- Patrol Boats
- Air Supremacy
- Alert
- Battleships Game
- Java
- Defense
- Fleet Cruisers Game
- Atlantic Island
- Coral Sea Game
- Iron Sea
- Mykonos
- Imperial Ocean
- Long Convoy
- Skagerrak
- Target Los Angeles
- West Pacific Game
- Pacific War Game
- Leyte Transport
- Emperor Hirohito
- Normandy Game
- South Pacific Game
- Destroy USAF Game
- Submarine Games
- US Navy Game
- Free Hunt Doenitz Game
- Free Hunt Spruance Game
- Free Hunt Halsey Game
- Imperial Navy I
- Royal Navy Game
- Free Hunt Pearl Harbor Games
- Midway II
- Kriegsmarine I
- Brisbane Convoy
- Clear West Coast
- Fall Of Australia
- Battle For Leyte
- Conquer Of Japan
- HMAS Perth
- Road To Okinawa
- Orange Ports
- Emperor Defense
- Prince Of Wales
- San Bernardino
- Pacific Race
- Heavy Duty
- Tokio Express
- Operation Sidney
- Bomber Operation
- Conquer Of Italy
- Heavy Cruiser Game
- Frigate Hunt
- Santa Cruz
- Lamansh Game
- Azores Transport
- Norway Convoy
- Invasion
- Grossadmiral
- Norway Ports
- Drang Nach Ost
- Convoy Pk30
- Ciano Defense
- Sir John Tovey
- Free Hunt Andrews
- Germans On Pacific
- Silent Hunt
- Antigua
- Return To Midway
- Kriegsmarine Game II
- Royal Air Force Game
- F. Hunt Lancaster
- Jamamoto Game
- Free Hunt USN
- Free Hunt Japan
- Free Hunt RAAF
- Free Hunt U Boat Game
- Free Hunt Aircraft Carriers Game
- Free Hunt Hawaii
- Free Hunt Yamato Game
- Free Hunt Iwo Jima Game
- Free Hunt Pacific Game
- Free Hunt Torpedos
- Free Hunt Convoy
- Free Hunt Germany
- Free Hunt Germany II
- Free Hunt Italy
- Free Hunt Malaya
- Free Hunt Subs Game
- Free Hunt B-29 Game
- Free Hunt USN 1944
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6th Fleet USN
The Sixth Fleet is a US Navy operational unit, headquartered on the command ship Mount Whitney (LCC-20) with its homeport in Gaeta, Italy and operating in the Mediterranean Sea. The Sixth Fleet consists of approximately 40 ships, 175 aircraft and 21,000 people and is the major operational component of Naval Forces Europe. The principal striking power of the Sixth Fleet resides in its aircraft carriers and the modern jet aircraft, its submarines, and its reinforced battalion of US Marines on board amphibious ships deployed in the Mediterranean.
- Contents
- 1 Mission
- 2 Organization
- 2.1 Task Force 60 Battle Force
- 2.2 Task Force 61 Amphibious Assault
- 2.3 Task Force 62 Marine Expeditionary Unit
- 2.4 Task Force 63 Logistics Force
- 2.5 Task Force 64 Strategic Missile Deterrence
- 2.6 Task Force 67 Land-Based Maritime Patrol Aircraft
- 2.7 Task Force 66/69 Submarine Warfare
- 3 Partial list of ships
- 4 History and recent operations
6th Fleet Mission
The Sixth Fleet has both US national and NATO responsibilities. The Commander of the Sixth Fleet, Vice Adm. Scott Fry, reports to the Commander-In-Chief, U.S. Naval Forces, Europe in the U.S. chain of command and to CinCSouth when the Sixth Fleet operates as part of NATO as StrikForSouth.
6th Fleet Organization
The United States Sixth Fleet is operationally organized into task forces. Each task force is responsible to the Sixth Fleet Commander for specific functions related to assigned units.
6th Fleet Task Force 60 Battle Force
Task Force 60 is Sixth Fleet's Battle Force. It is composed of one or more aircraft carriers, each with an accompanying complement of approximately six cruisers and destroyers. On board the aircraft carrier is an air wing of 65 – 85 aircraft. The air wing is the primary striking arm of the Battle Force, and includes attack, fighter, anti-submarine, and reconnaissance aircraft. Ships accompanying the carrier serve as defensive and offensive platforms with duties involving anti-air, surface and submarine warfare. In addition to its major role of controlling the seas, the Battle Force can also project its power over land.
6th Fleet Task Force 61 Amphibious Assault
Task Force 61 is the Mediterranean Amphibious Ready Group (MARG). It is composed of approximately three amphibious ships and their embarked landing craft. From these ships, United States Marine ground forces can move ashore by sea and air in amphibious assault of emergency evacuation missions. Once ashore, the ships of Task Force 61 logistically support the ground forces, until the objective of the landing has been accomplished, and the Marine Forces return to the ships.
6th Fleet Task Force 62 Marine Expeditionary Unit
Task Force 62 is the combat-ready ground force composed of a Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) of approximately 1,800 Marines. Transported in Task Force 61 ships, the MEU is equipped with armor, artillery, and transport helicopters that enable it to conduct operations ashore, or evacuate civilians from troubled areas.
6th Fleet Task Force 63 Logistics Force
Task Force 63 is the Logistics Force. Composed of oilers, provision ships, and repair ships, its mission is the delivery of supplies at sea, and effecting repairs to other ships and equipment of the Fleet.
6th Fleet Task Force 64 Strategic Missile Deterrence
Task Force 64 consists of nuclear-powered submarines armed with long-range strategic missiles (SSBN). Until the end of the 1970s these ships were homeported in Rota, Spain. The mission is strategic deterrence.
6th Fleet Task Force 67 Land-Based Maritime Patrol Aircraft
Task Force 67 is composed of land-based maritime patrol aircraft. These aircraft operate over the waters of the Mediterranean in anti-submarine, reconnaissance, surveillance, and mining roles.
6th Fleet Task Force 66/69 Submarine Warfare
Task Force 66/69 is responsible for planning and coordinating area submarine and anti-submarine warfare operations in the Mediterranean. Specifically, Task Force 69 is composed of attack submarines that provide capability to destroy enemy surface ships and submarines, as well as protect other Sixth Fleet ships from attack.
6th Fleet list of ships
USS Mount Whitney (LCC-20) Command ship
Old list (ca. 1965?):
- USS La Salle (AGF-3)
- USS Bang (SS-385)
- USS Oriskany (CV-34)
- USS Tarawa (CV-40)
- USS Albany (CA-123)
- USS Essex (CV-9)
- USS Forrestal (CVA-59)
- USS Intrepid (CV-11)
- USS Baltimore (CA-68)
- USS Topeka (CL-67)
- USS Shangri-La (CV-38)
- USS Leyte (CV-32)
- USS Kearsarge (CV-33)
- USS New Jersey (BB-62)
- USS Gyatt (DD-712)
6th Fleet History and recent operations
The United States has maintained a naval presence in the Mediterranean since the early 19th century, when U.S. Naval forces first engaged the Barbary Pirates to prevent them from interfering with commercial shipping. "Millions for defense, but not a penny for tribute!"
In 1946, President Truman dispatched battleship Missouri to the Eastern Mediterranean to counter Soviet threats to Turkey and Iran. The U.S. Sixth Task Fleet was established in 1949, the same year the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed, in the early days of the Cold War.
The Sixth Fleet provided military, logistical and humanitarian assistance to support NATO operations in Kosovo during the Yugoslav wars. It also participated in the so-called Operation Allied Force, Joint Task Force Noble Anvil, Operation Shining Hope and Operation Joint Guardian.