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| 1944 | Hirohito |  |
| 24th Oct Leyte Gulf Supports the biggest naval engagement in history as a gamble to win a good peace deal |
| 1944 | Kuniaki, Koiso | |
| 24th Oct Leyte Gulf Says if Japan wins this battle she will win the war, Jap[an loses the battle |
| 1944 | Kurita, Taeko | |
| 24th Oct Leyte Gulf Attacks the USA7th Navy |
| 24th Oct Leyte Gulf Leads the Centre Force, including the world's largest battleships Yamato & Musashi |
| 25th Oct Leyte Gulf Centre Force thinks it has seen the 7th Fleet but is bluffed into retreating |
| 25th Oct Leyte Gulf Prevented from entering the Leyte Gulf |
| 1944 | Nishimura, Shoji | |
| 24th Oct Leyte Gulf Leads a Southern force of two battleships & a few cruisers & destroyers |
| 24th Oct Leyte Gulf The Seventh Fleet sinks almost all of Nashimura's ships in the Surigao Strait |
| 1944 | Ozawa, Jisaburo | |
| 24th Oct Leyte Gulf Leads a force which is to act as bait for the American Seventh Navy |
| 1944 | Toyoda, Suemo | |
| 23rd Oct Leyte Gulf The Centre Force is discoverred by USAsubmarines which sink 2 cruisers |
| 24th Oct Leyte Gulf Attempts to destroy the USA7th Fleet |
| 24th Oct Leyte Gulf The Centre Force is hit by 250 attacks & the Musashi is sunk |
| 24th Oct Leyte Gulf Tries to prevent an American Army landing in the Phillipines |
