Gunichi Mikawa

Gunichi Mikawa

Gunichi Mikawa (三川 軍一, Mikawa Gun'ichi, 29 August 1888 – 25 February 1981) was a vice-admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II. Mikawa was the commander of a heavy cruiser force that defeated the U.S. Navy and the Royal Australian Navy at the Battle of Savo Island in Ironbottom Sound on the night of 8–9 August 1942. In this battle, his squadron of cruisers, plus one destroyer, sank three USN cruisers, plus the RAN heavy cruiser HMAS Canberra; Mikawa's force suffered no losses in the actual battle, although heavy cruiser Kako was sunk by the undetected American submarine S-44 on the return to their base near Rabaul in the Bismarck Archipelago. However, his later career was of mixed success, and he was reassigned to lesser posts after the loss of a troop convoy destined for New Guinea. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gunichi Mikawa has received more than 184,663 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Gunichi Mikawa is the 796th most popular military personnel (up from 799th in 2019), the 548th most popular biography from Japan (up from 616th in 2019) and the 49th most popular Japanese Military Personnel.