Shokaku 
Zuikaku 
Akigumo Akitsuki 
Hatsukaze Kazagumo Makigumo Yugumo | Nagumo (Striking Force) |
| Shokaku | Zuikaku |
| Akigumo | Akitsuki |
| Hatsukaze | Kazagumo |
| Makigumo | Yugumo |
144 aircraft | Mikawa (covers the convoy to Guadalcanal) |
 Aoba | Chokai  |
 Furutaka | Kinugasa |
| Kondo (Advanced Force) |
| Atago | Haguro  |
| Maya | Myoko |
| Takao | Yura  |
 Asagumo | Hayashio |
| Kuroshio | Minegumo |
| Natsugumo | Oyashio |
 Chitose |
22 aircraft | Hara (Mobile Force) |
 Ryujo | Tone  |
| Amatsukaze | Tokitsukaze |
30 aircraft | Tanaka (convoy to Guadalcanal) |
 Jintsu | Isokaze |
| Kagero | Kawakaze  |
 Mutsuki | Suzukaze |
| Umikaze | Uzuki  |
 Yayoi | Patrol Boat # 1  |
| Patrol Boat # 2 | Patrol Boat # 34  |
| Patrol Boat # 35 | Boston Maru  |
| Daifuku Maru | Kinryu Maru  |
| Abe (Vanguard) |
 Hiei | Kirishima |
| Chikuma | Kumano  |
| Suzuya | Nagara |
| Maikaze | Nowake |
| Tanikaze |
| Kondo (group on stand by) |
 Junyo | Mutsu  |
 Harusame | Murasame |
| Samidare |
| Yamada (25th Air flotilla) |
114 aircraft | Logistic |
 Shikinami | Uranami |
| Yamamoto (on his way to Truk) |
 Kosuga Maru | Yamato  |
| Akebono | Ushio |
| Yamazaki |
 Jingei | I 9  |
 I 11 | I 15 |
 I 17 | I 19 |
| I 26 | I 31 |
| I 33 | I 174  |
| I 175 | RO 34  |
 I 121 | I 122 |
| I 123 |
| Fletcher (TF 11) |
 Saratoga  | Minneapolis  |
| New Orleans | Dale IV  |
| Farragut III | MacDonough III |
 Phelps | Worden III |
74 aircraft | Kinkaid (TF 16) |
 Enterprise | North Carolina  |
 Portland | Atlanta  |
| Balch II | Benham II  |
| Ellet | Grayson  |
 Maury II | Monssen |
80 aircraft | Noyes (TF 18, refueling during the air-sea battle) |
 Wasp | Salt Lake City  |
 San Francisco | San Juan  |
 Aaron Ward II | Buchanan II |
| Farenholt II | Lang  |
 Selfridge II | Stack |
| Sterett II |
| Espiritu Santo (aircraft's based in the New Hebrides) |
58 aircraft | Wallace (Guadalcanal airstrip) |
29 aircraft