Appendix A. ESTIMATE OF STRENGTH OF OPPOSING NAVAL FORCES IN THE SOUTH WEST PACIFIC. Japanese American and Australian 2-16" battleships (1 new) 1-16" battleship (new) 5-14" battleships 1 regular carrier (38 A/C) (1 possibly damaged) 6-8" cruisers 1 regular carrier (36 A/C) 5-6" cruisers (2 convoying) 4 converted carriers (180 A/C) 4-5" cruisers 12-8" cruisers (3 probably damaged) About 50 destroyers 12-5.5" cruisers About 30 submarines (2 probably damaged) About 50 destroyers About 40 submarines About 13 seaplane carriers NOTE: The two large Japanese Fleet carriers, ZUIKAKU and SHOKAKU, were damaged on 26/10 and have not been included in the list above, as they are probably no longer operational.
- Collection ID
- CAB81
- Conflict
- Second World War
- Countries
- Australia Fiji Great Britain Guinea Ireland Japan New Zealand Solomon Islands
- Document Reference
- CAB 81/111/32
- Document Types
- Report
- File Reference
- CAB 81/111
- Identifier
- 10.1080/swwf.cab81.0111.032
- Keywords
- Predicting Enemy Intentions Japanese Strategy Battle Of Guadalcanal Assessing Enemy Strength Japanese Navy Japanese Air Force Warships Aircraft
- Languages
- English
- Organizations
- Chiefs of Staff Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee
- Pages
- 4
- Persons Discussed
- Victor Cavendish-Bentinck Francis Davidson Francis Inglis Geoffrey Vickers
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Military Intelligence
