Order of Battle
San Jose Intrusion
26-27 December 1944
Contributed by Richard Worth and Brad Smith

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