Japanese Forces

8th Fleet
  • VAdm. Gunichi Mikawa
  • Chokai (force flagship)(force flagship)
    Commanding officer: Capt. Mikio Hayakawa

Cruiser Division 6

  • RAdm. Aritomo Goto
  • Aoba (flagship)(flagship)
    Commanding officer: Capt. Yonejiro Hisamune
  • Furutaka
    Commanding officer: Capt. Araki Tsutau
  • Kako
    Commanding officer: Capt. Yuji Takahashi
  • Kinugasa
    Commanding officer: Capt. Masao Sawa

Cruiser Division 18

  • RAdm. Mitsuharu Matsuyama
  • Tenryu (flagship)(flagship)
    Commanding officer: Capt. Shinpei Asano
  • Yubari
    Commanding officer: Capt. Masami Ban

Screen

  • Yunagi
    Commanding officer: Lt. (sg) Okada Seiichi

Allied Forces

Task Force 62
  • RAdm. Richmond K. Turner

Task Group 62.6 (Western Screen)

  • RAdm. Victor A. C. Crutchley
    Notes: Royal Navy, VC.

Radar Pickets

  • Blue
    Commanding officer: Cdr. Harold N. Williams
  • Ralph Talbot
    Commanding officer: LtCdr. Joseph W. Callahan

Southern Group

  • RAdm. Crutchley
  • HMAS Australia (flagship)(flagship)
    Commanding officer: Capt. H.B. Farncomb
    Notes: Royal Australian Navy.
  • HMAS Canberra
    Commanding officer: Capt. Frank E. Getting
    Notes: Royal Australian Navy.
  • Chicago
    Commanding officer: Capt. Howard D. Bode
  • Bagley
    Commanding officer: LtCdr. George A. Sinclair
  • Patterson
    Commanding officer: Cdr. Frank R. Walker

Northern Group

  • Capt. Frederick L. Riefkohl
  • Vincennes
    Commanding officer: Capt. Riefkohl
  • Quincy
    Commanding officer: Capt. Samuel N. Moore
  • Astoria
    Commanding officer: Capt. William G. Greenman
  • Helm
    Commanding officer: LtCdr. Chester E. Carroll
  • Wilson
    Commanding officer: LtCdr. Walter H. Price

Task Group 62.4 (Eastern Screen)

  • RAdm. Norman Scott
  • San Juan (flagship)(flagship)
    Commanding officer: Capt. James E. Maher
  • HMAS Hobart
    Commanding officer: Capt. H.A. Showers
    Notes: Royal Australian Navy.
  • Monssen
    Commanding officer: Cdr. Roland N. Smoot
  • Buchanan
    Commanding officer: Cdr. Ralph E. Wilson

Unattached

  • Jarvis
    Commanding officer: LtCdr. William W. Graham Jr.