response to Japanese expansionism, it was instructed to take an "advanced" position at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Light cruisers, destroyers and submarines were stationed at San Diego.ĭuring the summer of 1940, as part of the U.S. Headquarters, battleships, aircraft carriers and heavy cruisers were stationed at San Pedro close to the Long Beach Naval Shipyard. Until May 1940, the Battle Force was stationed on the West Coast of the United States. The General Order 94 of 6 December 1922 organized the United States Fleet, with the Battle Force as the Pacific presence. In 1910, the ships of the First Squadron were organized back into a separate Asiatic Fleet. Fleet headquarters is at Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam, Hawaii, with large secondary facilities at Naval Air Station North Island, California.Ī Pacific Fleet was created in 1907 when the Asiatic Squadron and the Pacific Squadron were combined.
It provides naval forces to the Indo-Pacific Command. The United States Pacific Fleet ( USPACFLT) is a theater-level component command of the United States Navy, located in the Pacific Ocean.
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