USS HORNET (CV-12) and a light cruiser refuel from an oiler on 3 August 1944, the day before beginning air strikes on Chichi Jima. A destroyer is pulling away at top. All are units of TF-58. Brought together as Task Force 58, also known as the Fast Carrier Task Force, this awesome armada at times comprised more than 100 ships carrying more than 100,000 men afloat. By 1945, more than 1,000-combat aircraft, fighters, dive- and torpedo-bombers could be launched in under an hour. Consisted of 17 carriers: fleet and light carrying 1,100 aircraft. 6 battleships 13 cruisers 58 destroyers.