JAPANESE FORCES
Rear Admiral Masanori
Kimura
No. 1 Dash Unit
Escort Squadron 3:
Desdiv 52:
Sugi
Kashi
Desdiv 43:
Kaya
Minor damage from strafing
Desron 2
Adm. Kimura
Desdiv 7:
Kasumi (F)
Lt. Cdr. Matsumoto Shoohei
Desdiv 2
Captain Nagayoshi Shiraishi
Kiyoshimo (F) Cdr. Isamu Miyazaki
Crippled by two bomb
hits, sunk by PT torpedo; 84 killed
Asashimo
Lt. Cdr. Yoshirou Sugihara
No. 2 Dash Unit
Ashigara
Damaged by a bomb,
10 casualties
Oyodo
Captain Kakuro Mutaguchi
Slight damage from
two bombs (one a dud); 1 wounded
AMERICAN FORCES:
13 B-25 bombers from 71st Reconnaissance
Squadron (5th Air Force)
92 assorted fighters
11 PT-boats inshore
Lt. Cdr. A.W. Fargo; 11 PT-boats offshore
Sources:
1. Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War
by Lacroix and Wells
2. Nihon Kaigun web site
3. Liberation of the Philippines by Samuel
Eliot Morison