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	People-Japan--Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita, IJN, (1889-1977) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		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.history.navy.mil /photos/prs-for/japan/japrs-kl/t-kurita.htm (264 words)

	Battle of Leyte Gulf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kurita's flagship Atago was sunk by Darter and Maya by Dace.
		Meanwhile, Vice Admiral Onishi Takijiro had directed his First Air Fleet of 80 planes based on Luzon against the carriers Essex, Lexington, Princeton and Langley of Task Group 38.3 (whose planes were being used to attack airfields in Luzon to prevent Japanese land based aircraft attacks on the Allied ships in the Leyte Gulf).
		The crew of Zuikaku salute as the flag is lowered, and the Zuikaku ceases to be the flagship of the Japanese Navy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Leyte_Gulf (3361 words)

	William Halsey, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Halsey was promoted to Rear Admiral in 1938, commanding Carrier Divisions for the next three years, and, as a Vice Admiral, also serving as Commander Aircraft Battle Force.
		Vice Admiral Halsey was at sea in his flagship, USS Enterprise, during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
		Admiral Halsey left the South Pacific in May 1944, as the war surged toward the Philippines and Japan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Halsey,_Jr (1151 words)

	Imperial Battleships
		The HIEI is assigned to Vice Admiral Takasu Shiro's (former CO of CL ISUZU) First Fleet at the Combined Fleet's anchorage at Hashirajima in Hiroshima Bay in Vice Admiral Mikawa Gunichi's (former CO of KIRISHIMA) BatDiv 3 with the HARUNA, KONGO and the KIRISHIMA.
		Vice Admiral Nagumo is reassigned as the Commandant of the Sasebo Naval Station.
		Vice Admiral Abe is reassigned to the Naval General Staff and retires on 20 March 1943.
	www.combinedfleet.com /hiei.htm (3063 words)

	Divide and Conquer - Battle of Leyte Gulf
		Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita was to play the largest role of this battle for the Japanese.
		Vice Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa was the leader of a decoy fleet that was steaming from the north.
		Kurita was destined to have bad luck for the entirety of the conflict.
	home.earthlink.net /~divideandconquer/Battles/leyte_gulf/leyte_gulf.htm (2826 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / THE BATTLE OFF SAMAR
		Admiral Kurita said to his officers before the battle: “I know many of you are strongly opposed to this assignment.
		Admiral Halsey was very much pleased by his carrier pilots’ reports of their successes over the Sibnyan Sea.
		Admiral Kurita, aboard the Yamato, was thus out of touch with the action, a development that was to produce unhappy consequences for the Japanese.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1966/1/1966_1_20.shtml (6651 words)

	The Old Man and the Oil
		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.
	www.whiskeyandgunpowder.com /Archives/20060725.html (1222 words)

	A Go: Another Battle for Sapian
		Vice Admiral Kakuta Kakuji, a veteran naval flier, was appointed to head this command.
		Admiral Ozawa approached Saipan from the southwest with his force divided into two principal elements; one, Carrier Division 3, under Vice Admiral Kurita Takeo included three light carriers and a relatively heavy screen of surface ships.
		As yet, neither Ozawa nor Kurita was aware that the heavy carrier air strikes by TF 58 had already chopped the number of land-based aircraft down to a fraction of the expected number.
	home.att.net /~sallyann2/saipan-battle.html (3863 words)

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		Japanese Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita's armada of formidable warships was hoping to destroy the Kitkun Bay and the other naval ships supplying cover, rations and air support for the five-day-old invasion of Leyte.
		Vice Admiral Kurita expected a mild resistance from the outgunned American flotilla as his overwhelming naval force launched an early morning attack Oct. 25, 1944.
		Vice Admiral Kurita's adventure with America's "mild resistance" cost him 10 cruisers, four carriers, three battleships and nine destroyers.
	www.montrosepress.com /articles/2004/02/10/courage/16.prt (1107 words)

	Battle of Leyte Gulf
		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.
		On October 24th, while the U.S. was attacking Kurita and dealing with the air strikes from Luzon, Vice Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa's Northern Force intercepted a misleading American communication of Admiral Kurita's withdrawal, and started to withdraw as well.
		Admiral Halsey saw that he had an opportunity to destroy the last Japanese carrier forces in the Pacific, a blow that would cripple Japanese sea power and allow the U.S. Navy to attack the Japanese home islands.
	home.u-s-history.com /pages/h1757.html (1964 words)

	Japanische Homeseite
		Admiral Yamamoto commanded the Combined Fleet before the outbreak of the Pacific War and during its first sixteen months.
		Vice Admiral Nagumo retained command of the remaining Japanese aircraft carriers into November 1942, leading them in the Battle of the Eastern Solomons in August and the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands in October.
		Nobutake Kondo was born in 1886 and graduated from the Japanese Naval Academy in 1907.
	www.sepsy.de /jap-page.htm (751 words)

	Battle of Leyte Gulf - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Admiral Thomas Sprague's Task Unit 77.4.1 ("Taffy 1") consisted of Sangamon, Suwannee, Chenango, Santee, Saginaw Bay, and Petrof Bay.
		Admiral Felix Stump's Task Unit 77.4.2 ("Taffy 2") consisted of Natoma Bay, Manila Bay, Marcus Island, Kadashan Bay, Savo Island, and Ommaney Bay.
		Kurita mistook the escort carriers for fleet carriers and thought that he had the whole of the American Third Fleet under the 18 inch (457 mm) guns of his battleships.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Battle_of_Leyte_Gulf (3192 words)

	Imperial Cruisers
		CHOKAI is in CruDiv 4 as the flagship of Vice Admiral Ozawa Jisaburo's (former CO of HARUNA) First Southern Expeditionary Fleet of Vice Admiral (later Admiral) Kondo Nobutake's (former CO of KONGO) Second Fleet, Southern (Malay) Force.
		Vice Admiral Kondo's Southern (Malay) Force's Main Body of BatDiv 3/2's KONGO and HARUNA, CruDiv 4's ATAGO and the TAKAO and eight destroyers sortie S from the Poulo Condore area to engage Force Z at daylight the next day.
		Vice Admiral (later Admiral) Marc A. Mitscher's (former CO of HORNET, CV-8) Task Force 58 lands the 4th Marine Division and the Army's 7th Infantry Division that soon capture the Kwajalein, Roi-Namur and Majuro atolls.
	www.combinedfleet.com /chokai_t.htm (3191 words)

	Japanese battleship Musashi
		With her sister ship Yamato, she was a member of the largest and most heavily armoured class of battleships ever constructed.
		She formed part of Vice-Admiral Takeo Kurita[?]'s Centre Force along with Yamato at the battle of Leyte Gulf.
		During the battle, on October 22, 1944 she was attacked and sunk by American carrier-based aircraft armed with bombs and torpedoes, taking more than 1000 of her 2900 crew with her.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ja/Japanese_battleship_Musashi.html (94 words)

	Avalanche Press
		Vice Admiral Shigeru Fukudome’s Sixth Base Air Force had begun receiving its air complement in early October in preparation for the American assault.
		The battleships and cruisers of Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita’s First Strike Force, divided into two sub-groups, would sail around the northern end of Leyte and enter Leyte Gulf through the narrow San Bernardino Strait between Leyte and Samar.
		Admiral Shoji Nishimura’s Group C would come around Leyte’s southern end, through the Surigao Strait between Leyte and Mindanao.
	www.avalanchepress.com /LeyteJapaneseStrategy.php (1016 words)

	1944: LEYTE GULF (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		On 20 October 1944, the U.S. Sixth Army, supported by naval and air bombardment from the U.S. Seventh Fleet under Vice Admiral Thomas Kinkaid, landed on the favorable eastern shore of Leyte, one of the large Philippine Islands, north of Mindanao.
		The Southern Force, under Vice Admiral S. Nishimura with the battleships Fuso and Yamashiro, supported by the heavy cruiser Mogami and four destroyers, planned to come through the Surigao Strait, south of Leyte, followed on the same path by three more cruisers and four destroyers brought into the battle from Japan, under Vice Admiral Shima.
		Kurita's Center Force, which included the superbattleships Yamato and Musashi, successfully moved through the narrow San Bernardino Strait, then south along the east coast of Samar Island, northeast of Leyte, to within range of the Seventh Fleet's soft targets by dawn on 25 October 1944.
	www.olive-drab.com /od_history_ww2_ops_battles_1944leyte.php (1592 words)

	war and social upheaval: World War II Pacific Theater -- liberation of the Philippines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Admiral Chester Nimitz, US Pacific Commander and Admiral Ernest King, the Chief of Naval Operations, preferred targetting Formosa (Taiwan), but MacArthur eventually prevailed with his insistence that America must retun to the Philippines.
		Admiral Soemu Toyoda, Commander in Chief of the Combined Fleet, deployed the still pperful Japanese Navy in three groups.
		Kurita who had initially been turned back with heavy losses, raced through the Straits and south toward the invasion beaches where a 175,000 man invasion force and cargo ships were vulnerable.
	histclo.com /essay/war/ww2/camp/pac/w2wp-phil.html (1630 words)

	UVa Statistics: The Battle of Leyte Gulf
		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.
		Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, commander of the Seventh Fleet at the Leyte beachhead, believing that Halsey protected his northern flank, prepared to intercept Nishimura's Southern Force.
		Rear Admiral Clifton A. Spragues's Taffy 3 had a meager force of six slow escort carriers and seven fast destroyers to battle 24 warships grouped around battleships.
	www.stat.virginia.edu /leyte.html (1032 words)

	Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita
		Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita surveyed his powerful Fleet while it lay at anchor at Brunei, Borneo.
		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.
	www.battle-of-leyte-gulf.com /Leaders/Japanese/Kurita/kurita.html (523 words)

	The Philippines
		Admiral Soemu Toyoda, Commander in Chief of the Combined Fleet, deployed every surviving Japanese warship in two groups under Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita and Vice Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa.
		Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita and his fleet now moved in to attack the Allied invasion force.
		Admiral Hart's ships had begun their southward dispersal some days before, and only the submarines remained to dispute the sea with the enemy.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWphilippines.htm (2589 words)

	Sammy B Survivors: "Victory at Sea" (D.M. Kennedy) excerpt
		The Seventh Fleet, under Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, was composed of several big gunships and eighteen escort carriers.
		Kurita, perhaps rattled by his unplanned swim in Palawan Passage, had incredibly concluded that the little scratch force of baby flat-tops desperately trying to evade him off Samar was Halsey's powerful big-carrier Task Force 38.
		Even as Kurita was withdrawing, the Japanese launched a fearsome new weapon against the Taffy groups: suicide attacks by land-based kamikaze warplanes.
	www.de413.org /leytevictory.htm (2053 words)

	Battles of the supership Yamato
		As part of Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita's Center Force, Yamato moved up to Brunei Bay, Borneo, to refuel and then on the 22nd steamed toward the operational area in company with four other battleships, ten heavy cruisers and numerous other warships.
		Vice Admiral Ozawa's Northern Force (Blue) would be used as a decoy to draw ADM Halsey's Third Fleet away from Leyte Gulf.
		Americans were outnumbered and Vice Admiral Clifton Srague ordered its carriers to flee, but put on an aggressive strategy and started to attack with small destroyers to give time for the carriers to run away and prepare their airplanes.
	www.battleshipyamato.info /battles.html (3539 words)

	The American Experience \| MacArthur \| Maps \| WWII: The battle for Leyte
		A decoy fleet under the command of Vice Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa lured Admiral William "Bull" Halsey's Task Force 34 north, away from Leyte, leaving the landing force highly exposed.
		The Japanese plan would have worked had it not been for the courageous improvisation of Admiral Clifton Sprague's vastly outgunned task force, all that remained between the Japanese and the American invasion force.
		Their clever, vigorous attack convinced Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita that he was facing a formidable American group, and he withdrew through the San Bernardino Strait.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/macarthur/maps/leyte03.html (145 words)

	First Battle of the Phillipine Sea, 18 - 20 June 1944
		By June 16 Admiral Spruance, commanding the US Forces (the Fifth Fleet), was satisfied that a major sea battle was approaching, and made plans accordingly.
		Shortly before midnight 18/19 June Admiral Nimitz sent Spruance a message from Pacific Fleet Headquarters indicating that the Japanese flagship was approximately 350 miles to the WSW of Task Force 58.
		Moreover, the Admiral considered, as he was later to observe, that "if we were doing something so important that we were attracting the enemy to us, we could afford to let him come and take care of him when he arrived." This was to be in effect what happened.
	www.ussessexcv9.org /Bravepages/philsea.html (3908 words)

	Classe Yamato
		Vice Admiral Nomura Naokuni, Japan's representative to the Axis Tripartite Commission in Berlin since 1941, also returns home aboard the U-boat to become the CINC of the Kure Naval Station and later the Vice Minister of the Navy.
		Kurita orders all ships to head north, but at 1020 he reverses course southward and again heads towards Leyte Gulf.
		At 1235, Vice Admiral Ito's Attack Force encounters the first wave of 280 aircraft (132 fighters, 50 bombers, 98 torpedo planes) from Task Group 58.
	digilander.libero.it /pentiumII/anatomia/7attivita.htm (2568 words)

	The Carrier Project - The Saga of Taffy 3
		On 25 October Admiral Halsey's light and fleet carriers of the Third Fleet - along with the fast battleships - were off the east coast of the island of Luzon, headed north in search of the Japanese carriers of Admiral Jizaburo Ozawa's Northern Force.
		Between the Halsey and Kincaid forces were Vice Admiral Thomas Wilkerson's invasion force of transports and support ships at the Samar beaches, and Rear Admiral Thomas L. Sprague's Task Group 77.4 - three formations of escort carriers, destroyers and destroyer escorts.
		The furious defense mounted by Taffy 3 convinced Kurita that he was facing heavier forces than he actually was, prompting his decision to turn and retire from the area.
	home.grandecom.net /~cvproj/battle-samar.htm (1630 words)

	Imperial Japanese Navy Battleships
		Admiral Nishimura's fleet at Surigao Strait was hopelessly outnumbered, but they were not maneuvering very well, and Oldendorf managed to cross Nishimura's "T".
		Kurita's retreat seems almost inexplicable, since Leyte Gulf was a battle that the IJN had to win or die trying.
		Yamato, Nagato, Haruna and Kongo along with numerous cruisers and destroyers, under the command of Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita, are effectively defeated by the decidedly inferior Task Group 77.4.3, (better known as "Taffy 3") under the command of Rear Adm. Clifton A.F. Sprague.
	home.att.net /~wellsbrothers/Battleships/IJNBBtable.html (1279 words)

	The History of the USS Cabot - CVL-28
		This was Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita's Center Force trying to clear San Bernardino Strait and swing south to destroy invading forces on Leyte.
		The Japanese carriers Halsey so desperately wanted were commanded by Vice Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa and were to the north, being used as decoys to pull Halsey away from the strait.
		Admiral Halsey was especially wanting to find the two hybird carriers-Ise and Hyuga-that had escaped him in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
	www.mcallen.lib.tx.us /books/cabot/cab06_09.htm (10673 words)

	USS JOHNSTON-HOEL ASSOCIATION - A Survivors Story
		Admiral Halsey finally told us that we were taking the planes to bomb Japan.
		(Admiral Ozawa did not have many planes and could not do too much destruction: this is why he broke radio silence, to draw Admiral Halsey off station, so Admiral Kurita could bring his large task group through San Bernardino Strait.
		When Kurita's battle group came through San Bernardino Strait on the early morning of October 25, 1944, TAFFY THREE was not very far away.
	www.ussjohnston-hoel.bigstep.com /generic48.html (6303 words)

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