Combined Fleet » 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.
Recorded for Pacific War.
Attached units 2
Engagements 3
Movements
- Vanguard at the Philippine Sea (Battle of the Philippine Sea) · map
- Lingga anchorage near Singapore · map
- Sails from Brunei Bay · map
- Palawan Passage: two cruisers sunk by submarines (Battle of Leyte Gulf) · map
- Sibuyan Sea: Musashi sunk · map
- Off Samar: turns back · map
- Back at Brunei Bay · map