# FAST CARRIER TASK FORCE IN WWII TASK FORCE 58 MARIANAS TURKEY SHOOT 44904

Made in 1945, TASK FORCE 58 shows the activities of the Fast Carrier Task Force in WWII, known as "Task Force 58". The Fast Carrier Task Force was the main striking force of the United States Navy in the Pacific War from January 1944 through the end of the war in August 1945. The task force was made up of several separate task groups, each typically built around three to four aircraft carriers and their supporting vessels. The support vessels were screening destroyers, cruisers, and the newly built fast battleships. The film opens in the Marianas with the so-called Marianas Turkey Shoot, through the invasion of Okinawa, the devastating kamikaze attacks, and it even covers the last two years of the war up until and including the assault on Iwo Jima and the atomic bombing of Japan. The film contains astonishing gun camera footage as well as incredible combat footage throughout, including air-to-ground action in Rangoon in the China-Burma-India Theater, and the building of the B-29 base at Saipan. The Fast Carrier Task Force (Task Force 38 & Task Force 58) took part in all the US Navy's battles in the Pacific during last two years of the war. The task groups could operate independently or combine with the others as needs dictated. Raids against island strong points such as Iwo Jima or Chichi Jima might be undertaken by one or two task groups, but when a major operation was underway the task force would concentrate all four groups together. Each group would remain distinct but…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: War, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/44904TaskForce58)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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