Even the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, devastating though it was, was a carrier raid.

The American carrier raids have been so successful that the Japanese have no operational aircraft left in the islands with which to oppose them.

She participated in two more carrier raids from Hawaii before joining the 5th Fleet for the Gilberts campaign.

During the patrol, Sawfish also served on lifeguard station off Formosa in support of carrier raids.

She escorted two more carrier raids against the Tirpitz in 1944 and again in 1945.

However, the squadrons suffered massive aircraft and personnel losses from American carrier raids in February 1944.

To thwart such a move, a carrier raid against Japanese bases in the Marshall Islands was planned.

The British conducted no other carrier raids during the war.

For the remainder of the war she covered the carrier raids against targets in the East Indies and Sumatra.

She also supported a series of carrier raids against oil installations and airfields.