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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.
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
The title was used as a term of convenience; it was not a formal name for the organization. It consisted of Japan's six largest carriers, carrying the 1st Air Fleet. This mobile task force was created for the attack on Pearl Harbor under Vice-Admiral Chūichi Nagumo in 1941. [24]
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 ]
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...