Task Force 74
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The US Task Force 74 was a US Navy task force of the 7th fleet that was deployed to the Bay of Bengal by Nixon administration in December 1971, at the height of the 1971 Indo-Pak War. Led by the Aircraft Carrier USS Enterprise, the deployment of the task force was seen as a Show of force by USA in support of the beleaguered East Pakistani forces, and was claimed by India as a vindication of US "tilt" towards Pakistan at a time that Indian forces were close to capturing Dhaka. The Task Force withdrew from the Bay of Bengal after reports of Soviet submarines dispatched to shadow the fleet.[1][2]
The Task Force number is now used by the Seventh Fleet's Submarine Force.
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- ^ Rais 1987, p. 46
- ^ Belchman & Kaplan 1978, p. 188
- Rais, R.B (1987), The Indian Ocean and the Superpowers, Rowman & Littlefield, ISBN 0389206954.
- Blechman, B.M. & S.S. Kaplan (1978), Force Without War: U.S. Armed Forces as a Political Instrument, Brookings Institution Press, ISBN 0815709854.
- THE INDIAN END OF THE TELESCOPE. India and her navy. Vice Admiral (retd) G Hiranandani.Bharat-rakshak.com
- Garthoff R.L, B.M. (1994), Detente and Confrontation: American-Soviet Relations from Nixon to Reagan. pp 297-312, Transaction Publishers, ISBN 081573042X.
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