She was followed, on 1 November, by members of her battle group, USS Simpson (FFG-56) and the replenished oiler USS Savannah (AOR-4). The flagship USS America (CV-66) transited the Suez on 29 October 1993. The group was to transit the Suez Canal and relieve USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) on Groundhog Station, 90 miles north of the equator in the Indian Ocean, supporting UNOSOM II in Somalia. In October 1993, after several weeks supporting United Nations peacekeeping efforts in Bosnia, orders came on four hours notice for Carrier Group Six, under Rear Admiral (lower half) Arthur Cebrowski, to move quickly. She completed this deployment on 23 December 1991.
During this last deployment Forrestal served in a number of new and innovative battle group and carrier roles. During this period she provided air power presence and airborne intelligence support (the airwing flew over 900 sorties over Iraq) to the Combined Joint Task Forces of Operation Provide Comfort enforcing the northern "no-fly zone" in Iraq. USS Forrestal (CV-59) and her task force-commanded by Commander, Carrier Group Six-commenced her 21st and final operational deployment on. took command of the group in 1986 and deployed with it to the North Arabian Sea, Mediterranean Sea, and North Atlantic. In 1984 the group was based at Mayport and commanded USS Saratoga (CVA-60). After completing the exercise the ship returned to the Mediterranean, pausing in the Spanish port of Malaga (22–27 September). and international journalists in the carrier’s "War Room" on the 9th, describing in some detail the significance of the exercise – normally held every four years – in preparing the allies to resist a Soviet-led attack against the West. McDonald-Commander, United States Second Fleet-gave a news conference to a group of U. The professionalism and dedication to completing their tasks which the British and Canadians displayed especially impressed crewmembers, who noted these specific allies' pride in more than one report. Heavy seas and high winds, however, curtailed flight operations during the first phase of the exercise, but conditions improved just barely enough in the harsh northern climes to permit the ship and her embarked air wing to support the planned objectives. Forrestal and HMS Ark Royal (R09) led separate task groups that steamed in a two-carrier formation to gain sea control and deploy their aircraft to support amphibious landings in the Shetland Islands and the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark. Planners geared the exercise to simulate allied abilities to reinforce Western Europe in the event of an East Bloc attack. Northern Wedding involved over 40,000 men and women, 22 submarines, and 800 aircraft from nine NATO countries. Green, Commander, Carrier Group 6, to embark, and for RADM Smedberg to disembark and transfer his flag to the guided missile cruiser USS Harry E. En route she put into Rota to allow RADM Norman K.
On 30 June 1973, Carrier Division 6 was redesignated a carrier group, along with all similar formations.Īfter a brief stop in Palma (24–28 August 1978), USS Forrestal (CV-59) left the Mediterranean en route to the Atlantic and the North and Norwegian Seas, to take part in the huge NATO exercise Northern Wedding (4–18 September). Carrier Division 4 relieved Carrier Division 6 on 22 November 1970, and Holloway and his staff returned to Mayport aboard Saratoga. Holloway served as commander of Carrier Division 6 as well as of Task Force 60 from June 1970 and throughout the Black September crisis in Jordan. Saratoga was, at the time, in port in Naples, Italy. Holloway III reported aboard Saratoga as Commander, Carrier Division 6. On 1 August 1955, the division consisted of USS Intrepid (CVA-11) and USS Coral Sea (CVA-43) (flagship), both homeported at Norfolk. After conducting strenuous flight operations, between goodwill visits to many Mediterranean ports, Wasp was relieved at Gibraltar on 5 September by Leyte. On 2 June 1952, USS Wasp (CV-18) relieved Tarawa at Gibraltar and joined Carrier Division 6 in the Mediterranean Sea. History Carrier Division 6 (1944–1973) Ĭarrier Division 6 was formed as an aircraft-carrier-centered command in the Pacific theater during the Second World War.
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