The ships at Pearl Harbor, Japanese and American

* denotes flagship

Japanese

First Air Fleet--Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo
First Carrier Division: IJN Carriers Akagi* and Kaga--Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo
Second Carrier Division: IJN Carriers Hiryu* and Soryu--Rear Admiral Tamon Yamaguchi

Fifth Carrier Division: IJN Carriers Shokaku* and Zuikaku--Rear Admiral Chuichi Hara

Third Battleship Division: Battleships Hiei* and Kirishima, and Cruisers Tone and Chikuma--Vice Admrial Gunichi Mikawa

Light cruiser Abukuma* and nine destroyers of First Destroyer Squadron--Rear Admiral Sentaro Omori


American

CinCPac--BB USS Pennsylvania* [when at sea, when at port, HQ transfered to a shore position] Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, responsible for all US ships in the Pacific

Battle Force: USS California*, Nevada, Arizona, Oklahoma, Maryland, West Virginia and Tennessee--Vice Admiral William S. Pye

Fourteenth Naval District: Rear Admiral Claude C. Bloch; Commandant, responsible for the Pearl Harbor base, long range aerial reconnaissance and other Pacific Naval Bases

Commander, Aircraft, Battleforce--Vice Admiral William F. [Bill] Halsey: USS Enterprise* and Task Force 8 [?]

Also in Pearl Harbor: 2 CA's: San Francisco and New Orleans, 6 CL's: St. Louis, Honolulu, Helena, Phoenix, Raleigh and Detroit* [RADM Milo F. Draemel, Commander, PacFlt Destroyers] and thirty destroyers.

Losses
Japanese

Approximately 50 aircraft and 100 men [if anyone has the correct figures, please email them to me]

American

Battleships Arizona and Oklahoma, training ship Utah

Battleships Nevada, West Virginia, Tennesse, Maryland, California and Pennsylvania, Light Cruisers Helena, Honolulu, and Raleigh, and Destroyers Shaw, Cassin, and Downes were all either sunk or had serious to minor damage, but were all refloated and/or repaired to fight another day...[Surigao Strait comes to mind...]

Casualties: 2,403 dead or missing [including Captain Mervyn S. Bennion, West Virginia, Captain Franklin Van Valkenburgh and Rear Admiral Isaac Cassin Kidd, both KIA aboard Arizona

1,178 wounded


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