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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.
As a staff officer of the 1st Air Fleet from April 1941, Genda assisted Admiral Nagumo on board the Akagi, until she was eventually sunk at the battle of Midway. The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor resulted in the US declaring war on Japan, with 18 American warships sunk or damaged and over 180 American aircraft destroyed. The main Japanese ...
Admiral Chūichi Nagumo, Tamon Yamaguchi, and Jisaburō Ozawa. According to naval historians Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully, Admiral Nagumo was past his prime when he assumed command of the awesome Kidō Butai. He did not grasp the complexities of aerial warfare and tended to be passive rather than innovative, the opposite of his commander ...
Critically, Yamamoto's supporting battleships and cruisers trailed Vice Admiral Chūichi Nagumo's carrier force by several hundred miles. They were intended to come up and destroy whatever elements of the American fleet might come to Midway's defense once Nagumo's carriers had weakened them sufficiently for a daylight gun battle. [ 22 ]
Japanese aircraft carriers under Admiral Chūichi Nagumo struck Allied shipping and naval bases around British Ceylon, but failed to locate and destroy the bulk of the British Eastern Fleet. The Eastern Fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir James Somerville , was forewarned by intelligence and sailed from its bases prior to the raid; its attempt to ...
Name Picture Date of Rank Kabayama Sukenori: 10 May 1895 Yamamoto Gonnohyōe: 6 June 1904 Kawamura Sumiyoshi: 12 August 1904* Samejima Kazunori: 13 November 1905
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Chuichi Nagumo Deck scene on carrier Akagi in Indian Ocean Carrier Kaga showing small superstructure and downward pointing funnel Carrier Hiryu on fire after US air attacks at Midway Carrier Soryu pre-war Mitsubishi A6M "Zeke" fighter Aichi D3A "Val" dive bomber NakajimaB5N "Kate" torpedo bomber. Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo [c] in Akagi. 1st ...