Order of Battle - First Battle of Savo Island

Order of Battle
First Battle of Savo Island
9-10 August 1942
Contributed by Richard Worth

JAPANESE FORCES

8th Fleet
   VAdm. Gunichi Mikawa

Chokai (flag)   Capt. Mikio Hayakawa

Cruiser Division 6
   RAdm. Aritomo Goto
Aoba (flag) Capt. Yonejiro Hisamune
Furutaka     Capt. Araki Tsutau
Kako           Capt. Yuji Takahashi
Kinugasa    Capt. Masao Sawa

Cruiser Division 18
   RAdm. Mitsuharu Matsuyama
Tenryu (Flag) Capt. Shinpei Asano
Yubari             Capt. Masami Ban

Screen
Yunagi Lt. (sg) Okada Seiichi

ALLIED FORCES

Task Force 62
   RAdm. Richmond K. Turner

Task Group 62.6 (Western Screen)
   RAdm. Victor A. C. Crutchley, RN, VC

Radar Pickets
Blue                 Cdr. Harold N. Williams
Ralph Talbot   LtCdr. Joseph W. Callahan

Southern Group
   RAdm. Crutchley

HMAS Australia (flag) Capt. H.B. Farncomb RAN
HMAS Canberra          Capt. Frank E. Getting RAN
Chicago                        Capt. Howard D. Bode
Bagley                           LtCdr. George A. Sinclair
Patterson                      Cdr. Frank R. Walker

Northern Group
   Capt. Frederick L. Riefkohl
Vincennes                     Capt. Riefkohl
Quincy                           Capt. Samuel N. Moore
Astoria                          Capt. William G. Greenman
Helm                              LtCdr. Chester E. Carroll
Wilson                           LtCdr. Walter H. Price

Task Group 62.4 (Eastern Screen)
   RAdm. Norman Scott
San Juan (flag)            Capt. James E. Maher
HMAS Hobart              Capt. H.A. Showers RAN
Monssen                       Cdr. Roland N. Smoot
Buchanan                      Cdr. Ralph E. Wilson

Unattached
Jarvis                             LtCdr. William W. Graham Jr.