commander, 5 engagements

Battles of Shōji Nishimura

Imperial Japanese Navy admiral (1889-1944)

Shōji Nishimura 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 Indonesia (2), Philippines (2), Australia (1). Taken in date order, the sites lie 5,718 km apart end to end, 1,430 km between engagements on average. Most belong to Pacific War (3), World War II (1).

5 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

5 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 2

Pacific War 3
World War II 1

Engagements by date

Date	Engagement	Place	From the last	Result
1942	Battle of Tarakan	Tarakan Island, Indonesia		Japanese victory
23 January 1942	Battle of Balikpapan	Balikpapan, Indonesia	518 km S	Japanese victory
31 March 1942	Battle of Christmas Island	Christmas Island, Australia	1,608 km SW	Japanese victory
23 October 1944	Battle of Leyte Gulf	Leyte Gulf, Philippines	3,184 km NE	Allied victory
24 October 1944	Battle of the Sibuyan Sea	Sibuyan Sea, Philippines	408 km NW	Allied 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, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.