Battle of Candor

The Battle of Candor was an armed engagement between the Manticoran Alliance forces and the People's Navy, in which the Manticoran Alliance joint task force defeated the People's Navy Task Force 20 and took back the Candor System.
== Prelude ==
* Operation Stalking Horse
* First Battle of Minette ()
== Order of battle ==
=== Manticoran Alliance ===
Joint task force:
* Admiral Alfred Henries' task group:
** a battle squadron (SD)8 units, CO Admiral Henries
** a battlecruiser squadron (6 vessels)
* Battle Squadron 2 (GSN), CO Admiral Wesley Matthews
* a half battle squadron (DN)2 divisions - 4 units, CO (Rear) Admiral Koga
* a battle division (SD)2 units, CO (Rear) Admiral Truman
* uncertain screentaken by Matthews, Koga, Truman
Rear Admiral Eloise Meiner's task force (Candor picket):
* two battlecruiser sqadrons probably12 vessels, including HMS Hector, the flagship
* a screening element including at least three destroyers
=== People's Navy ===
Task Force 20:
* two battle squadrons
* two battlecruiser squadrons
* a light cruiser screening element
* a destroyer srceening element
== Aftermath ==
:See: Second Battle of Minette ()
== References ==
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