Takeo Kurita (Japanese: 栗田 健男, Hepburn: Kurita Takeo, 28 April 1889 – 19 December 1977) was a vice admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World...

Imperial Japanese Navy's First Mobile Striking Force, under the command of Takeo Kurita, had suffered significant damages and appeared to be retreating westward...

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('Force A') (sortied from Brunei Bay 22 Oct) 1st Section Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita Battleship Division 1 (Vice Adm. Matome Ugaki) 2 battleships Yamato (9...

aircraft, Yamamoto sent the 3rd Battleship Division, under the command of Takeo Kurita, from Truk to bombard Henderson Field. At 01:33 on 14 October, Kongō...

landing area via the Surigao Strait. The "Center Force" under Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita—by far the most powerful of the attacking forces—would pass through the...

Admiral Kenzaburo Hara, and the 7th Cruiser Division, under Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita. Light cruiser Natori (with Admiral Hara aboard), with the destroyers...

Sortied 12 June from Batjan anchorage off SW Halmahera Island Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita in heavy cruiser Atago Carrier Division 3 (Rear Adm. Sueo Obayashi) 3...

Center Force, a 23-ship task force under the command of Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita, appeared on the horizon and opened fire. At 07:35, Roberts turned and...

leaders Raymond A. Spruance Marc Mitscher Jisaburō Ozawa Kakuji Kakuta Takeo Kurita Units involved U.S. 5th Fleet 1st Mobile Fleet Strength 7 fleet carriers...

a naval force from Truk—commanded by Vice-Admiral Takeo Kurita—to bombard Henderson Field. Kurita's force—consisting of the battleships Kongō and Haruna...

from the Philippine beachheads, allowing Imperial Japanese Admirals Takeo Kurita, Kiyohide Shima, and Shōji Nishimura to take surface task forces through...

4th Cruiser Division Takeo Takagi: Commander of 5th Cruiser Division Sentaro Omori: Commander of 5th Cruiser Division Takeo Kurita: Commander of 7th Cruiser...

naval battle in history. The Center Force commanded by Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita was located October 23 coming through the Palawan Passage by two American...

Isoroku Yamamoto † Chūichi Nagumo † Shigeyoshi Inoue Nishizo Tsukahara Takeo Kurita Kiyohide Shima Jinichi Kusaka Shōji Nishimura † Gunichi Mikawa Raizo...

and USS Darter attacked a Japanese cruiser task force led by Admiral Takeo Kurita, sinking his flagship (in which he survived) Atago, and her sister ship...

three forces: the "Center Force", under the command of Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita, which included the battleships Yamato and Musashi; the "Northern Force"...

overwhelming force of Japanese battleships and cruisers under Vice Adm. Takeo Kurita. Survivors of the four U.S. ships lost in the battle—USS Hoel (DD-533)...

persistent American air attacks, coupled with the indecision of Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita and tenacity shown by American destroyers and destroyer escorts saved...

two battleships and two destroyers under the command of Rear Admiral Takeo Kurita; the "Main Body" of Shōkaku, Zuikaku, and Zuihō plus one heavy cruiser...

during the Battle of the Philippine Sea, Takao was part of Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita’s Mobile Force Vanguard, deployed from Tawi Tawi in an attempt to force...

Navy Center Force led by Admiral Takeo Kurita that included the IJN flagship Yamato in the Battle off Samar before Kurita ordered the Center Force to return...

José P. Laurel Akira Mutō Sōsaku Suzuki † Shizuo Yokoyama Soemu Toyoda Takeo Kurita Jisaburō Ozawa Sanji Iwabuchi † Units involved 6th Army I Corps 6th Infantry...

Sweden (b. 1879) Yngve Larsson, Swedish politician (b. 1881) December 19 Takeo Kurita, Japanese admiral (b. 1889) Nellie Tayloe Ross, American politician (b...

Imperial Japanese Navy task force under the command of Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita as it passed through the Palawan Passage on its way from Brunei to the...

labeled the Northern Force under Jisaburō Ozawa, the Center Force under Takeo Kurita, and the Southern Force under Shōji Nishimura. Ozawa's carriers, by now...

under the command of Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita and took a path that, on 25 October, led it to TG 77.4. Though Kurita's fleet – by 25 October numbering four...

– Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born philosopher (d. 1951) April 28 Takeo Kurita, Japanese admiral (d. 1977) António de Oliveira Salazar, Portuguese dictator...

labeled the Northern Force under Jisaburō Ozawa, the Center Force under Takeo Kurita, and the Southern Force under Shōji Nishimura. Ozawa's carriers, by now...