First Striking Force
Fleet · Japan · March 1, 1944 – November 15, 1944
Takeo Kurita's battleship force, the Centre Force at Leyte Gulf: it lost Musashi in the Sibuyan Sea and turned back off Samar.
View on map Fought in Pacific War
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Movements
- June 19, 1944 Battle of the Philippine Sea Vanguard at the Philippine Sea Map
- July 20, 1944 Lingga anchorage near Singapore Map
- October 22, 1944 Sails from Brunei Bay Map
- October 23, 1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf Palawan Passage: two cruisers sunk by submarines Map
- October 24, 1944 Sibuyan Sea: Musashi sunk Map
- October 25, 1944 Off Samar: turns back Map
- October 28, 1944 – November 15, 1944 Back at Brunei Bay Map
- April 7, 1945 Operation Ten-Go