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commander, 5 engagements

Battles of Kakuji Kakuta

Battles of Kakuji Kakuta

Japanese admiral (1890-1944)

Kakuji Kakuta is recorded as a commander at 5 placed engagements in the atlas between 1942 and 1944: 3 battles and 2 naval actions across 3 present-day countries, most in United States (2), Solomon Islands (1), Japan (1). Taken in date order, the sites lie 14,500 km apart end to end, 3,625 km between engagements on average. Most belong to Pacific War (4), World War II (1).

Battle of Dutch HarborBattle of the Santa Cruz IslandsNaval Battle of GuadalcanalBattle of the Philippine SeaBattle of TinianBattle of Dutch HarborNaval Battle of GuadalcanalBattle of the Philippine SeaBattle of TinianBuenos AiresŌsakaSeoulChicagoLimaTehranKinshasaTaipeiBengaluruMiami5000 km0.000N, 0.000E
5 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

1942: 3 engagements3 in 19421944: 2 engagements19421944
5 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

Battle of Dutch Harbor, 1942Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 1942Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, 1942Battle of the Philippine Sea, 1944Battle of Tinian, 194419421944
One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 2

Engagements by date

DateEngagementPlaceFrom the lastResult
4 June 1942Battle of Dutch HarborUnalaska, Alaska, United StatesJapanese victory
25 October 1942Battle of the Santa Cruz IslandsSanta Cruz Islands7,392 km SWBoth sides claim victory; see Aftermath
13 November 1942Naval Battle of GuadalcanalGuadalcanal, Solomon Islands752 km WAmerican victory
19 June 1944Battle of the Philippine SeaPhilippine Sea, Japan4,608 km NWAmerican victory
24 July 1944Battle of TinianTinian, United States1,748 km EAmerican victory

Sources and method

Commanders come from the commander fields of the English Wikipedia infoboxes of these engagements (CC BY-SA 4.0), resolved to one article each; portrait, dates and description from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons, Cloe, John Haile (1990) The Aleutian Warriors: A History of the 11th Air Force and Fleet Air Wing 4, Missoula, Montana, , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.