commander, 8 engagements

Battles of Nobutake Kondō

Japanese admiral (1886-1953)

Nobutake Kondō is recorded as a commander at 8 placed engagements in the atlas between 1939 and 1942: 1 battle, 3 naval actions and 4 campaigns across 3 present-day countries, most in Solomon Islands (4), China (2), United States (1). Taken in date order, the sites lie 18,562 km apart end to end, 2,652 km between engagements on average. Most belong to Pacific War (6), Second Sino-Japanese War (2).

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

Engagements by year

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

In time order

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

Wars 2

Engagements by date

Date	Engagement	Place	From the last	Result
1939	Swatow Operation	Shantou, China		Japanese victory
1939	Hainan Island Operation	Hainan, China	755 km SW	Japanese victory
1942	Solomon Islands Campaign	Solomon Islands	6,331 km SE	Allied victory
4 June 1942	Battle of Midway	Midway Atoll, United States	4,989 km NE	American victory
1942	Guadalcanal campaign	Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands	4,975 km SW	Allied victory
24 August 1942	Battle of the Eastern Solomons	Solomon Islands	322 km E	American victory
25 October 1942	Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands	Santa Cruz Islands	439 km E	Both sides claim victory; see Aftermath
13 November 1942	Naval Battle of Guadalcanal	Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands	752 km W	American 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.