Japanese Forces

  • Rear-Admiral Aritomo Goto

Sentai 6

  • CA Aoba
    Commanding officer: Captain Yonejiro Hisamune
  • CA Furutaka (sunk)(sunk)
    Commanding officer: Captain Tsutau Araki
  • CA Kinugasa
    Commanding officer: Captain Masao Sawa

Destroyer Squadron 3

  • DD Fubuki (sunk)(sunk)
    Commanding officer: Commander Musao Yamashita
  • DD Hatsuyuki
    Commanding officer: Lt. Commander Tatsuya Yamaguchi

American Forces

  • Rear Admiral Norman Scott
  • San Francisco CA-38 (force flagship)(force flagship)
    Commanding officer: Captain Charles H. McMorris
  • Salt Lake City CA-25
    Commanding officer: Captain Ernest G. Small
  • Boise CL-47
    Commanding officer: Captain Edward J. Moran
  • Helena CL-50
    Commanding officer: Captain Gilbert C. Hoover

Destroyer Squadron 12

  • Captain Robert G. Tobin
  • Farenholt DD-491 (flagship)(flagship)
    Commanding officer: Lt. Commander Eugene T. Seaward
  • Duncan DD-485 (sunk)(sunk)
    Commanding officer: Lt. Commander Edmund B. Taylor
  • Laffey DD-459
    Commanding officer: Lt. Commander William E. Hank
  • Buchanan DD-484
    Commanding officer: Commander Ralph E. Wilson
  • McCalla DD-488
    Commanding officer: Lt. Commander William G. Cooper

Sources

  • Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War by E. LaCroix & L. Wells III
  • A Battle History of the Imperial Navy (1941-1945) by P. Dull
  • Chronology of the War at Sea 1939-1945 by J. Rohwer & G. Hummelchen
  • Nihon Kaigun website
  • Guadalcanal Online website