United States Pacific Fleet

Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz

The United States Pacific Fleet ( USPACFLT ) is part of the U.S. Navy and includes the third ( central and eastern Pacific) and U.S. 7th Fleet ( Western Pacific and Indian Ocean). Her home port is the Pearl Harbor Naval Base passed, it will be the Commander Pacific Fleet ( COMPACFLT ) and is assumed in the operational chain of the U.S. Pacific Command.

The man strength is about 140,000th Approximately 200 vessels belong to the subordinate units. The air fleet of the subordinate units consists of 1100 aircraft.

Formation

The U.S. Pacific Fleet was created in 1907 by the Asian and the Pacific Squadron were merged. 1910, the ships of the 1st Squadron were re-organized in a separate Asiatic Fleet. The general command from the December 6, 1922 presented the U.S. fleet in the Battle Fleet ago as a Pacific military presence.

The modern appearance of the fleet is due to the splitting of the U.S. fleet in the Atlantic and the Pacific Fleet before the Second World War.

By May 1940, the unit was stationed on the west coast of the United States. In the summer of the same year she was ordered in response to the Japanese expansionism an advanced position in Pearl Harbor ( Hawaii) to take. The Commanding Admiral James O. Richardson opposed the long-term relocation and even personally protested in Washington, DC The policy considerations were so important that he was replaced by his deputy, Admiral Husband E. Kimmel.

Admiral Claude C. Bloch commanded the local Naval District at Pearl Harbor ( separated from the fleet ) at the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941.

Composition of the Pacific Fleet in May 1941

At the time of the Japanese attack the fleet consisted of nine battleships, three aircraft carriers, 12 heavy cruisers, 8 light cruisers, 50 destroyers, 33 submarines and 100 bombers.

Commanders

Early years

  • Roger N. Stembel 1872; followed by various commanders
  • William H. H. Southerland (1912-1913)
  • Cameron McRae Winslow (September 13, 1915 - July 29, 1916 )
  • William B. Caperton (July 28 1916 - April 30, 1919 )
  • Hugh Rodman ( July 1919 - 1921)

1941 - today

* Between 1947 and 1958, the commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet was also the commander of United States Pacific Command was founded in 1947.

Harry B. Harris Jr. Counter admiral United States Asiatic Fleet Gary Roughead David E. Jeremiah James D. Watkins Thomas B. Hayward Thomas Hinman Moorer Arthur W. Radford Raymond A. Spruance United States Marine Corps Forces Pacific
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