AMERICAN FORCES:
Task Force 64
Rear Adm. Willis August
Lee
DD 416 Walke
Sunk by gunfire and
one Long Lance, 75 killed
DD 397 Benham
Bow blown off by Long
Lance, eventually sank
DD 379 Preston
Sunk by gunfire, 116
killed
DD 433 Gwin
Damaged by gunfire
BB 56 Washington
BB 57 South Dakota
Entered battle with
only seven main guns working
Hit by twenty-seven
shells, extensive but superficial damage; 38 killed, 60 wounded
JAPANESE FORCES
Volunteer Attack Force
Adm. Nobutake Kondo
Emergency Bombardment Force
Sentai 11
Kirishima
Struck by at least
nine 16in shells and forty 5in shells, 250 killed.
Later finished off
by aircraft from Henderson Field.
Direct Escort
Hatsuyuki—Lt. Cdr. Tatsuya Yamaguchi
Asagumo—Cdr. Tooru Iwahashi
Teruzuki—Cdr. Tsuneo Orita
Shirayuki—Cdr. Rokorou Sugawara
Sentai 4—Adm. Kondo
Atago (F)
Sustained minor damage
Takao
Direct Escort
Nagara
Inazuma—Lt. Cdr. Masamichi Terauchi
Samidare—Lt. Cdr. Noboru Nakamura
Ahead Sweeping Force
Desron 3—Adm. Shintaro Hashimoto
Sendai—Adm. Hashimoto
Desdiv 19
Shikinami—Cdr. Kawahashi Akifumi
Uranami—Cdr. Hagio Tsutomu
Ayanami—Cdr. Eiji Sakuma
Sunk by gunfire, 196
survivors
Sources:
1. A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese
Navy by Paul S. Dull
2. Nihon Kaigun web site
3. Warship Losses of WWII by David Brown