Allied Navies August 1, 1945
This section answers the question, what what was the navy doing on/about 1 August 1, 1945. After early August, Japan began to signal it was ready to surrender and the navy began to react in anticipation of the need to rapidly occupy Japan. The source of much of the information in this section comes from individual ship and unit war diaries.
These pages are organized in three separate ways.
The first page presents the high level administrative organization of the Pacific Fleet. It identifies the high level officers under Admiral of the Navy Nimitz.
The second set of pages that identify the ships associated with the major activities of the Pacific Fleet during this time. The most important of these is Admiral Halsey’s Third Fleet’s action raiding the Japanese home islands. Major activities that have not received much attention include the deployment of naval assets to support the upcoming Russian invasion of Manchuria and the antishipping sweeps and raids along the Chinese coast. This section also documents the major warships moving to reinforce the Pacific Fleet in the Western Pacific for Operation OLYMPIC.
Third there are a set of pages that identify the location and assignment (where possible) of the individual ships of the US Navy on 1 August 1945. These pages are organized by ship type.