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Rear-Admiral Aritomo Goto
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CA AobaCommanding officer: Captain Yonejiro Hisamune
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CA Furutaka (sunk)Commanding officer: Captain Tsutau Araki
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CA KinugasaCommanding officer: Captain Masao Sawa
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Rear Admiral Norman Scott
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San Francisco CA-38 (force flagship)Commanding officer: Captain Charles H. McMorris
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Salt Lake City CA-25Commanding officer: Captain Ernest G. Small
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Boise CL-47Commanding officer: Captain Edward J. Moran
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Helena CL-50Commanding officer: Captain Gilbert C. Hoover
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Captain Robert G. Tobin
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Farenholt DD-491 (flagship)Commanding officer: Lt. Commander Eugene T. Seaward
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Duncan DD-485 (sunk)Commanding officer: Lt. Commander Edmund B. Taylor
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Laffey DD-459Commanding officer: Lt. Commander William E. Hank
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Buchanan DD-484Commanding officer: Commander Ralph E. Wilson
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McCalla DD-488Commanding officer: Lt. Commander William G. Cooper
- 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