RAdm. Jesse B. Oldendorf commanded Task Group 72.2, comprised of destroyers, cruisers, and six old (1916-1923) battleships, five of them survivors of the 7 December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. The U.S. force managed to ?Æcross the T?ô of VAdm. Nishimur
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