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Vice Admiral Seiichi Ito
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Rear Admiral Nobuei MorishitaPosition: Chief of Staff
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BB Yamato (fleet flagship) (sunk)Commanding officer: Rear Admiral Kosaku ArigaNotes: 2,498 killed.
721 men were lost in the four destroyers sunk.
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Rear Admiral Keizo Komura
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CL Yahagi (force flagship) (sunk)Commanding officer: Captain Tameichi HaraNotes: 446 killed.
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Captain Kiichi Shintani
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DD Isokaze (sunk)Commanding officer: Commander Saneo Maeda
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DD Hamakaze (sunk)Commanding officer: Commander Isami Mukoi
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DD YukikazeCommanding officer: Commander Masamichi Terauchi
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Captain Hisao Kotaki
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DD Asashimo (sunk)Commanding officer: Commander Yoshiro Sugihara
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DD Kasumi (sunk)Commanding officer: Commander Hiroo Yamana
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DD HatsushimoCommanding officer: Commander Masazo Sato
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Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher
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Rear Admiral Clark
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Rear Admiral Sherman
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Ault (DD-698)
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English (DD-696)
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Charles S. Sperry (DD-697)
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Waldron (DD-699)
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Haynsworth (DD-700)
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Wallace L. Lind (DD-703)
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John W. Weeks (DD-701)
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Hank (DD-702)
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Borie (DD-704)
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Erben (DD-631)
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Walker (DD-517)
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Hale (DD-642)
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Stembel (DD-644)
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Black (DD-666)
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Bullard (DD-660)
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Kidd (DD-661)
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Rear Admiral Radford
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Remey (DD-688)
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Norman Scott (DD-690)
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Mertz (DD-691)
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Monssen (DD-798)
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McGowan (DD-678)
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McNair (DD-679)
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Melvin (DD-680)
Task Force 58.4 was providing air cover at Okinawa when the Yamato force was sighted. The task force tried to close at high speed, but the action was over before it came within range.
Destroyer assignments are as of March 14th, 1945 (per "Chronology of the War at Sea 1939-1945") and may have differed some by 7 April 1945.
TF 58.1 and TF 58.3 attacked the Yamato force with 386 aircraft of which 10 failed to return.
- "Chronology of the War at Sea 1939-1945" by J. Rohwer & G. Hummelchen
- "Japanese Destroyer Captain" by T. Hara
- "U.S. Warships of World War II" by P. Silverstone