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From: wul@sco.COM (Wu Liu)
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Subject: Re: USN fleet numbering
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Date: 7 May 91 00:29:35 GMT
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From: Wu Liu <wul@sco.COM>


>From: wunder@dtoa1.dt.navy.mil (Robert Wunderlick)
>Acoording to a former naval contact of mine, the 5th fleet was operational
>in WWII, and was decommissioned along with demobilization around 1946.

I seem to recall that the main U.S. strike fleet in the Pacific theatre
during the 1944-1945 time frame was called the 3rd fleet when Halsey
was commanding, and the 5th fleet when Spruance ran his flag up.  The
ships themselves were mostly the same.