Built around powerful battleships and cruisers this fleet constituted the first striking force sometimes translated first diversionary attack force which was the main attack force in the battle for leyte gulf. At about 0800 on 24 october the center force was spotted by 3 u s.
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Following the loss of atago maya and takao vice admiral takeo kurita s center force had an uneventful rest of the day on the 23rd as his ships kept a watchful eye and ear for more us navy submarines.
Vice admiral kurita. Vice admiral takeo kurita vice admiral takeo kurita surveyed his powerful fleet while it lay at anchor at brunei borneo. Vice admiral takeo kurita 1889 1977 was a senior japanese admiral who took was present at midway the fighting around guadalcanal and the battle of the philippine sea but who is best remembered for his failure to take advantage of a potentially good position during the battle of leyte gulf. Admiral kurita commanded the center force of battleships and cruisers which under heavy attack succeeded in penetrating the philippines engaged our escort carriers and reached almost to the entrance to leyte gulf only to withdraw at the moment when success seemed within his grasp.
In 1944 i was chief of staff to vice admiral takeo kurita commander in chief of the second fleet of the japanese navy. Kurita was promoted to vice admiral on 1 may 1942 and was reassigned to the 3rd battleship division in july. Admiral kurita the man whose missed opportunity might have changed the shape of the post war world died in 1977.
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. Vice admiral takeo kurita 栗田 健男 kurita takeo 28 april 1889 19 december 1977 was a vice admiral in the imperial japanese navy during world war ii. In the guadalcanal campaign kurita led his battleships in an intense bombardment of henderson field on the night of 13 october firing 918 heavy high explosive shells at the american airfield.
Army air force b 24 liberator bombers which promptly reported them. Takeo kurita 28 april 1889 19 december 1977 was a vice admiralin the imperial japanese navyduring world war ii and with the famous super battleship yamatoas his flagship the commander of arguably the most powerful fleet in human history.
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