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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Takeo Kurita
		Kurita, born in 1889, graduated in 1910 from the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy.
		Admiral Kurita was criticized by the Japanese military for not fighting to the death.
		It was not until he was in his eighties that Takeo Kurita admitted privately to a former Etajima student that he withdrew the fleet from the battle because he did not believe in wasting the lives of his men in a futile effort, having long since believed that the war was lost.
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	Takeo Kurita - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Takeo Kurita (Japanese: 栗田健男 Kurita Takeo April 28, 1889 - December 19, 1977) was a vice-Admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.
		Kurita commanded a cruiser division during the Battle of Midway (serving under Nobutake Kondo).
		In the BattleTech universe, he is said to be one of the ancestors of the Draconis Combine's ruling Kurita family.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Takeo_Kurita (143 words)

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		Kurita reflected on why his fleet was all but annihilated at the Battle of Leyte Gulf in October 1944.
		Kurita explained that he brought his ships into that action without knowing whether there was sufficient fuel to bring them out of the zone of combat.
		Thus, Kurita's ships sailed slowly to their fate, conceding the element of surprise to the vigilant Americans, because the Japanese commanders were attempting to conserve enough fuel to return home.
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	Imperial Japan Navy WW2 Admirals
		Takeo Kurita was born in 1889 and graduated from the Japanese Naval Academy in 1910.
		Rear Admiral Kurita commanded a cruiser division during the East Indies invasion and the Battle of Midway, losing the cruiser Mikuma during the latter action.
		As a Vice Admiral later in 1942, Kurita led a battleship division in the Guadalcanal campaign, conducting an intense bombardment of Henderson Field on 14 October.
	www.battle-fleet.com /pw/his/peopjap.htm (884 words)

	Divide and Conquer - Battle of Leyte Gulf
		Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita was to play the largest role of this battle for the Japanese.
		Kurita was destined to have bad luck for the entirety of the conflict.
		Kurita was steaming towards Samar Island, just off of Leyte Gulf, where transport ships were unloading troops and supplies.
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	The Battle of Leyte Gulf
		Kurita himself was aboard the heavy cruiser Atago, only one of ten such heavy cruisers under his command.
		Another fortunate survivor was Admiral Kurita, who was fished from the water by the destroyer Kishinami, and transferred to the Yamato to resume command later that afternoon.
		Kurita’s main striking force was undoubtedly weaker than it had been.
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	http://www.infomagic.net/~grog/Kurita.htm (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kurita himself, when queried about communications, replied: "I thought that the communications were not entirely adequate partly because, when I switched my flag from ATAGO to YAMATO, communications personnel were divided between two destroyers, one of which had to accompany the (damaged) TAKAO."
		Kurita, on a reversed course, was heading west.
		Thereupon he received a message from Admiral Toyoda -- an order which may have caused Kurita to regret that the communication channel between his bridge and the Commander-in-Chief's Headquarters was in a state of repair.
	www.infomagic.net /~grog/Kurita.htm (351 words)

	Takeo Kurita
		Takeo Kurita was born in Japan in 1889.
		Kurita, leading the formidable First Striking Force, now planned to attack the remaining US ships in Leyte Gulf.
		Takeo Kurita, who was much criticized for his performance at Leyte Gulf, died in 1977.
	www.world-war-2.info /figures/takeo-kurita.php (271 words)

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		The Battle of the Leyte Gulf saw Halsey and Kurita engaged in several deadly cat-and-mouse struggles in the Pacific.
		Finally at Samar, with victory in his grasp, Kurita was convinced he was being lured into a trap and withdrew.
		Kurita's losses had been enormous ——three battleships, all four aircraft carriers, eleven destroyers and a submarine had been sunk and virtually all of the surviving vessels were damaged.
	www.aetninternational.com /content/Synopsis/3357_synopsis.doc (498 words)

	Battle of Leyte Gulf
		Kurita had unaccountably failed to deploy destroyers in an anti-submarine screen ahead of his heavy ships — resulting in disaster for the Japanese.
		As Kurita sailed his mighty force northward, he was suddenly ambushed by an array of undetected torpedoes.
		Although Admiral Kurita went down with his flagship, he was quickly rescued from the sea off Palawan by sailors aboard the Maya, putting him back into command of his fleet aboard the Yamato by day's end.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1757.html (1964 words)

	TheHistoryNet Discussion Forums: Admiral Takeo Kurita and the Battle of Leyte Gulf (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Milwaukee WI Re: Admiral Takeo Kurita and the Battle of Leyte Gulf....
		If Kurita was successful in engaging the landing forces the resulting losses probably would have been large, but it only would have set MacArthurs schedule back to regain the forces he lost.
		Also at this point Halsey new that the trap was set and his force was racing south at top speed so probably by the time Kurita would have engaged the landing force he would have had to endure quite a lot of punishment and halsey would be right near his toes.
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	Navy League of the United States - Citizens in Support of the Sea Services
		Thinking that his aircraft had blunted Kurita’s passage toward San Bernardino Strait, the Third Fleet commander, Adm. William F. Halsey, turned his carrier task forces north to attack a Japanese carrier force led by Vice Adm. Jisaburo Ozawa.
		Kurita’s force of four battleships, six heavy cruisers and van of destroyers surged forward through an unguarded San Bernardino Strait and then turned south to steam some 125 miles off the east coast of the island of Samar toward Leyte Gulf virtually undetected.
		A squall at 0705 shielded Sprague from Kurita’s gun crews, and he took advantage of the respite to turn his carriers southwest toward Leyte Gulf.
	www.navyleague.org /sea_power/nov_04_34.php (778 words)

	UVa Statistics: The Battle of Leyte Gulf
		Kurita's advance became confused; Halsey interpreted disorder for retreat.
		By evening Halsey, certain that Kurita was in full retreat westward, and learning of enemy carriers to the north, began preparations for a radical shift of operations.
		Dazzled by the performance of the American ships, Kurita overestimated their size and feared Halsey would cut off his line of withdrawal.
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	Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita
		They just had finished a 1,000 mile journey from Lingga Roads near Singapore as part of the execution of the Japanese SHO plan, which was put in place anticipating the Americans’ move in the Pacific.
		Kurita received promotion and commanded the Second Fleet at the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
		During his naval service, Kurita adopted the normal Japanese capacity for ultraconservative tactics and a disturbing tendency to always doubt the success of any mission he had been assigned.
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	Pacific War Maps
		Two battleship forces, one under Admiral Takeo Kurita, the other under Admiral Shoji Nishimura, left Borneo separately on October 22nd.
		Kurita's force headed for the Palawan Passage, a narrow strip of dangerous, reef-infested waters.
		Admiral Kurita was fished out of the water and transferred his flag to Yamato, but it is speculated that his morale was negatively affected by the incident.
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	Dick Destiny
		Kurita was a Japanese battleship admiral, one who commanded a task force with the two largest ever built, the Musashi and the Yamato.
		Nevertheless, Kurita pushed on and emerged near the American landing area, confronted only by a force of small aircraft carriers known as "jeeps" and their destroyer escort.
		Halsey and Kurita are unforgettable as opposed to modern commanders, appearing regularly in the news like managers of a failed corporate operation, one in which CEOs regularly retire and are replaced, seen occasionally before Congress or the newsmedia expressing themselves in ways which are neither strong, moving nor particularly elucidating.
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	Yamaguchi, takeo
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		YAMAGUCHI Takeo // YAMAGUCHI Takeo // Pond // 1936...
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	TIME.com: GREATEST & LAST BATTLE OF A NAVAL ERA -- Oct. 26, 1959 -- Page 1
		The strongest Japanese force, under Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita, was to steam through the Sibuyan Sea, debouch through San Bernardino Strait (see maps) and head south to Leyte Gulf.
		As Kurita's powerful fleet steamed through Palawan Passage toward the Sibuyan Sea early on the morning of Oct. 23, it was flushed by patrolling U.S. submarines Darter and Dace.
		Kurita himself had to swim to save his skin.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,864957,00.html (667 words)

	Evan Thomas on the Last Great Sea Battle - Newsweek Books - MSNBC.com
		The commander of the Japanese Battle Fleet, Adm. Takeo Kurita, gave the order to withdraw.
		Kurita, who had not slept for three days, thought that he had encountered a much larger and more powerful fleet.
		His lookouts and officers mistook the American destroyers like the Johnston for heavier cruisers and thought the little "jeep" carriers were actually the fast fleet carriers of Admiral Halsey's task force.
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	Eric Margolis \| Foreign Correspondent : TAFFY-3. A STUDY IN HEROISM
		At dawn, Vice-Admiral Takeo Kurita’s Center Force of four battleships - including the world’s largest, mighty ‘Yamato,’ with 18.1 inch guns - 6 heavy cruisers, 2 light cruisers, 11 destroyers, emerged off Samar.
		All that stood between Kurita’s capital ships and the beaches was a tiny American escort group: Task Group 77.43, better known as ‘Taffy 3:’ 6 small escort, or ‘jeep’ carriers(each with about 25 aircraft), 3 destroyers(DD), and 3 destroyer escorts(DE’s).
		Attacks on Kurita’s force by US submarines and aircraft in previous days had sunk the admiral’s flagship and broken his spirit.
	www.ericmargolis.com /archives/1998/11/taffy3_a_study.php (809 words)

	Sample text for Library of Congress control number 2003062792
		Having weathered submarine ambush the night before, and assault by wave after wave of angry blue aircraft the previous afternoon, Vice Adm. Takeo Kurita, steward of the last hopes of the Japanese empire, would have been right to expect the worst.
		Admiral Kurita had departed Brunei on October 22 with his powerful Center Force, led by the Yamato and Musashi, the two largest warships afloat, aiming to slip across the South China Sea, pass through San Bernardino Strait above Samar Island, and close on the Leyte beachhead from the north.
		Gathered around the radio set in the combat information center of the destroyer escort USS Samuel B. Roberts, they listened as a hundred miles to their south, their heavier counterparts in the Seventh Fleet encountered the first signs that the Japanese defense of the Philippines was underway.
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	Diphy - Digital Philately - View Stamp (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kurita's force entered theSibuyan Sea, northwest of Leyte, on 24 October.
		Kurita's powerful "Center Force" consisted of five battleships (Yamato, Musashi, Nagato, Kong?, and Haruna), and twelve cruisers (Atago, Maya, Takao, Ch?kai, My?k?, Haguro, Noshiro, Kumano, Suzuya, Chikuma, Tone, and Yahagi), supported by thirteen destroyers.
		Kurita's flagshipAtago was sunk by Darter and Maya by Dace.
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	Sandcastle V.I. - Carriers: Airpower at Sea - The Great Carrier War / Part 11
		The Central Force, under Admiral Takeo Kurita, would approach from the west, while the Southern Force, under Admiral Shoji Nishimura, would approach from the south.
		The resulting battle was really a series of four separate naval engagements during the period of October 24 to 26, 1944.
		Fearing that the Americans would next consolidate their forces in an attack on the Central Force, Admiral Kurita broke off his attack on the escort carriers of "Taffy 3" and withdraw his battleships through the San Bernadino Strait.
	www.sandcastlevi.com /sea/carriers/cvchap2k.htm (894 words)

	Navy League of the United States - Citizens in Support of the Sea Services
		Vice Adm. Jisaburo Ozawa dangled the remnants of Japan’s carrier fleet to the north as bait.
		Meanwhile a powerful surface force that included Musashi and Yamato, Japan’s two super battleships, under the command of Vice Adm. Takeo Kurita would penetrate San Bernardino Strait from the west and swing south along the east coast of Samar to attack American amphibious forces in Leyte Gulf.
		The Americans discerned Japan’s intentions and struck hard against Kurita’s force on the 23rd and 24th.
	www.navyleague.org /sea_power/oct_04_38.php (851 words)

	Takeo Kurita
		On the outbreak of the Second World War he was given command of the Western Attack Group and successfully led the amphibious assault on Java on 28th February 1942.
		The following year he was given command of the 2nd Fleet and in June 1944, Kurita and Jisaburo Ozawa suffered a disastrous defeat at the Marianas.
		Takeo Kurita, who was much criticized for his performance at Leyte Gulf, died in 1977.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWkurita.htm (0 words)

	Daily Star Opinions: Feedback with Primo Esleyer
		Operation was ruled out as dangerous at Tony's age but was happy when informed by the lawyers in the group a motion for postponement was filed with St. Peter who readily approved.
		When "Kishima" was also damaged Kurita transferred again to battleship "Yamato." From Oct. 23 to 25, it was a real battle with also many US warships, including a carrier, sank.
		In the Japanese side were Kurita, Shoji Nishimura, Kiyohide Shima, and Izaboro Ozawa, all of them Admirals.
	www.visayandailystar.com /2005/October/24/feedback.htm (905 words)

	Amazon.com: Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945: Books: Evan Thomas (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ernest Evans, captain of a lowly destroyer, the U.S.S. Johnston; Adm. Takeo Kurita; Adm. Matome Ugaki, readers and historians alike are about to embark on a breath-taking journey onto the high seas of the Pacific where brave men sacrificed in the name of their country.
		He chases the Japanese carriers, leaving a small force of baby aircraft carriers, destroyers, and destroyer escorts behind to support the ground forces that were in the process of continuing the invasion and recapture of the Philipines.
		Kurita's force was the only Japanese fleet that was not completely devastated during the battle.
	www.amazon.com /Sea-Thunder-Commanders-Campaign-1941-1945/dp/0743252217 (3449 words)

	St. Lô: First Victim of the Kamikazes
		Vice-Admiral Kurita Takeo's Center Force, with four battleships, had hit the escort carriers of Rear-Admiral Clifton Sprague.
		In a running battle, Kurita's ships chased the American baby flattops toward the on rushing forces of Vice-Admiral Oldendorf coming to their rescue.
		The silver lining that every cloud is supposed to have, however, came in the form of Kurita's nerves breaking.
	www.microworks.net /PACIFIC/pictoral/stlo_sunk.htm (522 words)

	Taffy III Monument
		It was this group, of some of the smallest combat ships in the United States Arsenal, who stopped the monster fleet of Japanese Admiral Takeo Kurita.
		Admiral Kurita’s central force, consisting of 4 Battleships, 7 Cruisers and 11 Destroyers, were headed for Leyte Gulf, with the intent of destroying the many thousands of troops, supply ships and landing craft, that were supporting General MacArthur’s beach head, in the Philippines.
		On October 25, 1944, according to authors, historians and researchers of today, who have been meticulous in their research, our leader RADM.”Ziggy” Sprague, saved the day for the United States and prevented a disastrous defeat, which would have prolonged the war with a vast amount of additional casualties.
	www.ouroldnavy.com /mont_t3.htm (570 words)

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