Takagi Takeo

Takagi Takeo

Takagi Takeo ( Japanese 高木 武雄 ; born January 25, 1892 in Fukushima Prefecture , † July 8, 1944 in Saipan , Northern Mariana Islands ) was a Vice Admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy .

After graduating from the Naval Academy in 1911, Takeo Takagi was the commander of a submarine in 1921 . In the early 1930s he went on a study trip to the United States and Europe . After brief lecturing at the Japanese Naval Staff Academy, he took over some commands as a sea ​​captain . Among other things, he served as a commander on the battleship Mutsu .

At the beginning of the Pacific War , Takeo Takagi was in command of a small fleet with which he supported the landing forces in the Philippines and the Sunda Islands . This combat group, which consisted of some cruisers , destroyers and escort aircraft carriers , also drove escorts for the landing units that were on the way to invade Java on February 27, 1942 as an eastern combat group under Rear Admiral Shōji Nishimura . In the battle of the Java Sea they achieved an important victory over the Allied fleet lying there .

At the Battle of the Coral Sea in May of the same year, however, his fleet suffered a serious defeat. The same happened when he was in command of the 5th Cruiser Division as Vice Admiral in command of the Battle of Midway .

In 1943 Takeo Takagi was given command of the 6th submarine fleet. At the beginning of 1944 he moved their headquarters from Truk to the Mariana Island of Saipan . After the local American landing in June 1944, the Japanese defeat loomed quickly and Takeo Takagi took under the rules of Bushidō the life .

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Takagi is the family name, Takeo the first name.