Central Pacific Area Fleet

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The Central Pacific Area Fleet (中部太平洋方面艦隊 Chubu Taiheiyo Homen Kantai?) was a fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy established during World War II.

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[edit] History

The Central Pacific Area Fleet was a short-lived operational headquarters of the Imperial Japanese Navy, established on 4 March 1944. With United States Navy forces having driven the Japanese out of the Marshall Islands and Caroline Islands in late 1943 to early 1944, the remnants of Japanese naval forces from those areas regrouped under the direction of Admiral Chuichi Nagumo. The new Central Pacific Area Fleet was a combined operational command containing air (No.14 Air Fleet) and ground (IJA 31st Army) elements, and was tasked with the defense of the Mariana Islands and Palau, from its command center in Saipan.

With the fall of Saipan to American forces on 8 July 1944 and subsequent death of Admiral Nagumo and his staff, the Central Area Fleet ceased to exist. [1]

[edit] Structure

  • No.4 Squadron
  • No.14 Air Fleet
  • IJA 31st Army
  • No.5 Special Base Unit

[edit] Commanders of the IJN Central Pacific Area Fleet

Commander in chief [2]

Rank Name Date
1 Admiral Chuichi Nagumo 4 Mar 1944 - 18 Jul 1944

Chief of staff

Rank Name Date
1 VIce-Admiral Hideo Yano 4 Mar 1944 - 8 Jul 1945

[edit] References

[edit] Books

  • D'Albas, Andrieu (1965). Death of a Navy: Japanese Naval Action in World War II. Devin-Adair Pub. ISBN 0-8159-5302-X. 
  • Dull, Paul S. (1978). A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1941-1945. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-097-1. 
  • Goldberg, Harold J. (2007). D-day in the Pacific: The Battle of Saipan. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-34869-2. 
  • Rottman, Gordon; Howard Gerrard (2004). Saipan & Tinian 1944: Piercing the Japanese Empire. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1-84176-804-9. 

[edit] External links

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ D'Albas, Death of a Navy
  2. ^ Wendel, Axis History Database
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