Status - John Skinner - USS O'Brien:
O'Brien arrived at Palmyra Atoll Naval Air Station on the 21st. O'Brien delivered its passengers and Flusser brought a US Marine garrison for the island. O'Brien was then ordered to meet a convoy from the US west coast and escort it to Pago Pago, American Samoa. The convoy would arrive there on the 28th.
U. S. Navy Task Forces:
- Task Force 17 (Yorktown)
remained in the South Pacific area to continue raids and offensive
operations; it was currently at
Tongatabu for a week of refurbishment, then to return to the Coral Sea
area and meet Task Force 11.
- Task Force 11 (Lexington) Lexington was enroute to the Coral Sea area to
reunite with Task Force 17 when it returned from Tongatabu.
- Task Force
16 (Enterprise), with the USS Hornet group had completed the attack on Japan and were returning to Pearl Harbor.
More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 185-186.
- The First South Pacific Campaign, John B. Lundstrom, pp. 80-81.
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