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Comparative Fleet Strengths: Dec 1, 1941, US & Japan


     Comparative Fleet strengths:  Dec 1, 1941
    U.S Forces (Pac & Asiatic Fleets)           Japanese
                     Battleships

         9                                        10
                     Carriers

         3                                        10
                     Heavy Cruisers

         13                                       18
                     Light Cruisers

         11                                       17
                     Destroyers

         80                                      111
                     Submarines

         55                                       64
     NOTE:  The Asiatic Fleet, HQ Manila, had no ships larger than

            a cruiser.

                    PEARL HARBOR STRIKE FORCE
   Vice Admiral C. Nagumo (Commander in Chief First Air Fleet)
                AIR ATTACK FORCE, Admiral Nagumo
Carrier Division 1     Carrier Division 5     Carrier Division 2

   CV AKAGI               CV SHOKAKU             CV HIRYU

   CV KAGA                CV ZUIKAKU             CV SORYU
           Screen, Rear Admiral S. Omori in CL ABUKUMA
                      Destroyer Squadron 1
DD TANIKAZE            DD HAMAKZE             DD KAGERO

DD URAKAZE             DD KASUMI              DD SHIRANUHI

DD ISOKAZE             DD ARARE               DD AKIGUMO
              SUPPORT FORCE, Vice Admiral G. Mikawa
Battleship Division 3         [Heavy] Cruiser Division 8
    BB HIEI                      CA TONE

    BB KIRISHIMA                 CA CHIKUMA
              Ship Lane Patrol, Captain K. Imaizumi
                   Submarines I-19, I-21, I-23
         Midway Neutralization Unit, Captain K. Konishi
    DD SAZANAMI                   DD USHIO (see note below)
                              Train
                 Eight Tankers and Supply Ships
Note: USHIO was the only ship of the Pearl Harbor Strike Force to survive

 the war.
                         NAVAL COMBATANT STRENGTH

                               PACIFIC OCEAN

                                1 MAY 1941

         UNITED STATES               ROYAL    TOTAL   JAPANESE

      PACIFIC    ASIATIC    ROYAL    NETH.  POTENTIAL    NAVY

      FLEET      FLEET      NAVY     NAVY    ALLIES   (DEC. 7, )

BB       9         0         1        0        10        10

CV       3         0         1        0         4        10

CA      12         1         4        0        17        18

CL       9         2        13        3        27        17

DD      67        13         6        7        93       111

SS      27        28         0        15       70        64
            ARMY PLANES ON OAHU AND AFTER ATTACK OF 7 DECEMBER

                                     
                         BEFORE ATTACK              AFTER ATTACK

                               UNDER                      UNDER

                  USABLE       REPAIR       USABLE        REPAIR

B-17                6             6            4             4

B-12A               1             2            1             2

B-18               21            12           11            10

A-12                2             0            0             0

A-20                5             7            5             5

P-40               64            35           36            30

P-36               20            19           16            19

P-26               10             4            4             4

RECON.             11             2            9             4

TRAIN/UTIL          3             1            1             1

TOTAL             143            88           87            79
                            AMERICAN CASUALTIES

                                     
                  KILLED, MISSING

                AND DIED OF WOUNDS          WOUNDED

NAVY                    2,008                  710

MARINE CORPS              109                   69

ARMY                      218                  364

CIVILIANS                  68                   35

TOTAL                   2,403                1,178