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Chūichi Nagumo (南雲 忠一, Nagumo Chūichi, 25 March 1887 – 6 July 1944) was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II.Nagumo led Japan's main carrier battle group, the Kido Butai, in the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, and over the next months in successful raids on Darwin in Australia and in the Indian Ocean.
The Rising Sun in the Pacific 1931 – April 1942, vol. 3 of History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Castle Books. ISBN 0-7858-1304-7. Piegzik, Mikhal A. (2022). The Darkest Hour: Volume 1: The Japanese Naval Offensive in the Indian Ocean 1942 – The Opening Moves. Asia@War. Vol. 31. Warwick, UK: Helion. ISBN 978-1-915070-61-6.
On June 3, 1942, the Japanese Navy attacked Dutch Harbor in the first aerial attack on the continental United States during the American/Pacific theaters of World War II. Originally planned to start at the same time as the Battle of Midway, it occurred a day earlier due to one-day delay in the sailing of Nagumo's task force. [6]
Name Picture Date of Rank Saigō Jūdō: 20 January 1898 Itō Sukeyuki: 31 January 1906 Inoue Yoshika: 31 October 1911 Tōgō Heihachirō: 21 April 1913
Chūichi Nagumo (1886–1944) Shōji Nishimura (1889–1944) Tomoshige Samejima (1889–1969) Satō Tetsutarō (1866–1942) Shigetarō Shimada (1883–1976) Kōichi Shiozawa (1881–1943) Kantarō Suzuki (1868–1948) Sōkichi Takagi (1893–1979) Takeo Takagi (1892–1944) Ibō Takahashi (1888–1947) Takarabe Takeshi (1867–1949) Sadatoshi ...
The Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, fought during 25–27 October 1942, sometimes referred to as the Battle of Santa Cruz or Third Battle of Solomon Sea, in Japan as the Battle of the South Pacific (Japanese: 南太平洋海戦 Minamitaiheiyō kaisen), was the fourth aircraft carrier battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II.
The Central Pacific Area Fleet was a short-lived operational headquarters of the Imperial Japanese Navy, established on March 4, 1944. With United States Navy forces having driven the Japanese out of the Marshall Islands and Caroline Islands in late 1943 to early 1944, the remnants of Japanese naval forces from those areas regrouped under the direction of Admiral Chuichi Nagumo.
Vice Admiral Chūichi Nagumo. Carrier Group ... February 1943: Volume V of History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Boston, Massachusetts: Little, ...