36 (see http://dangrusdav.tripod.com/command.htm) Destroyer Squadron 40 (Fourth Fleet) Destroyer Squadron 50 (Fifth Fleet) - Active 1943-45, reestablished 1994. Destroyer Squadron 60 - reactivated in the Mediterranean in the twenty-first century. List of cruiser-destroyer groups U.S. Atlantic Fleet Cruiser-Destroyer Group 2 (former CruDesFlot 2) Cruiser-Destroyer Group 4 - had USS Tidewater (AD-31) as flagship from 10 September to 13 November 1970 Cruiser-Destroyer Group 8 (former CruDesFlot 8) Cruiser-Destroyer Group 12 (former CruDesFlot 12, re-designated 30 June 1973) U.S. Pacific Fleet Cruiser-Destroyer Group 1 (redesignated Carrier Strike Group Fifteen on 1 October 2004) Cruiser-Destroyer Group 3 (ex Cruiser Division 1, became CruDesFlot 11 April 11, 1962, now Carrier Strike Group 9) Cruiser-Destroyer Group 5 (former CruDesFlot 9) Cruiser-destroyer flotillas Cruiser-Destroyer Flotilla 6 - During the Cuban Missile Crisis, Rear Admiral John W. Ailes III, ComCRUDESFLOT 6, took command of Task Group 136.1, comprising Newport News, USS Canberra, USS MacDonough (DLG-8), and , as well as the destroyers of DESDIV 182. Then Rear Admiral Richard G. Colbert commanded the flotilla from June 1965 (1964? )to 1966 at Charleston, South Carolina. Prior to assuming command as COMNAVSUPACT DANANG, Rear Admiral Emmett P. Bonner commanded Cruiser-Destroyer Flotilla 6 from 1967–68, homeported in Charleston. His flagship was ; he served concurrently as COMMINELANT homeported in Charleston. Cruiser-Destroyer Flotilla 7 (Rear Adm Zumwalt took command, San Diego, July 24, 1965, to July 1966) Rear Admiral Robert Salzer assumed command of Cruiser Destroyer Flotilla 7 in September 1970 and upon the disestablishment of that Flotilla on 16 March 1971 transferred to command of Cruiser-Destroyer Flotilla 3. References Destroyer squadrons