Orders of Battle - Battle of Vella Lavella - Battles of the Pacific - World War II (original) (raw)

World War II

6 October 1943
Contributed by Dan Muir

• Rear-Admiral Matsuji Ijuin

• DD Fumitsuki (flagship)

• DD Akigumo (force flagship)

• DD Isokaze
  Commanding officer: Captain Toshio Miyazaki

• DD Yugumo (sunk)

• DD Shigure (flagship)
  Commanding officer: Lt. Commander Kimio Yamaguchi

• DD Samidare
  Commanding officer: Lt. Commander Yoshiro Sugihara

• DD Selfridge (force flagship)

• DD Chevalier (sunk)

• Commander Harold B. Larson

• DD Ralph Talbot (flagship)

• "The Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy (1941-1945)" by P. Dull

• "Chronology of the War at Sea 1939-1945" by J. Rohwer & G. Hummelchen

• "Japanese Destroyer Captain" by T. Hara

• Japanese Forces

  • Transport Force
  • Support Force
  • Destroyer Division 27

• American Forces

  • Southern Force

• Sources