Battle of Midway - Commanding Officers

Name the commanding officer of every ship present at the Battle of Midway, as well as the fleet commanding officers? Only includes surface warships, and doesn't include ships of invasion forces (just ships of the core attack groups)

Names taken directly from Wikipedia. If something was Romanized incorrectly, I apologize.

Doesn't include any initials, but there is a Jr.

Japanese names here go personal name first, family name second

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Command	Officer
First Carrier Striking Force	Chuichi Nagumo
Second Carrier Division	Tamon Yamaguchi
IJN Akagi	Taijiro Aoki
IJN Kaga	Jisaku Okada
IJN Soryu	Ryusaku Yanagimoto
IJN Hiryu	Tomeo Kaku
IJN Haruna	Tamotsu Takama
IJN Kirishima	Sanji Iwabuchi
IJN Tone	Tametsugu Okada
IJN Chikuma	Keizo Komura
IJN Kumano	Kikumatsu Tanaka
IJN Suzuya	Masatomi Kimura
IJN Mikuma	Shakao Sakiyama
IJN Mogami	Akira Soji
IJN Nagara	Toshio Naoi
IJN Nowaki	Magataro Koga
IJN Arashi	Yusumasa Watanabe
IJN Hagikaze	Juichi Iwagami
IJN Maikaze	Seiji Nakasugi
IJN Kazagumo	Masayoshi Yoshida
IJN Yugumo	Shigeo Semba
IJN Makigumo	Isamu Fujita
IJN Urakaze	Nagayoshi Shiraishi
IJN Isokaze	Shunichi Toyoshima
IJN Tanikaze	Motoi Katsumi
IJN Hamakaze	Tsuneo Orita
IJN Asashio	Goro Yoshii
IJN Arashio	Hideo Kuboki
Task Force 17	Frank Fletcher
Task Force 16	Raymond Spruance
USS Yorktown	Elliot Buckmaster
USS Enterprise	George Murray
USS Hornet	Marc Mitscher
USS Astoria	Francis Scanland
USS Portland	Laurance DuBose
USS Pensacola	Frank Lowe
USS Northampton	William Chandler Jr.
USS New Orleans	Howard Good
USS Minneapolis	Frank Lowry
USS Vincennes	Frederick Riefkohl
USS Atlanta	Samuel Jenkins
USS Hammann	Arnold True
USS Anderson	William Hobby
USS Hughes	Donald Ramsey
USS Morris	Harry Jarrett
USS Russell	James Pollock
USS Gwin	John Higgins
USS Phelps	Edward Beck
USS Worden	William Pogue
USS Monaghan	William Burford
USS Aylwin	George Phelan
USS Maury	Gelzer Sims
USS Benham	Joseph Worthington
USS Ellet	Francis Gardner
USS Conyngham	Henry Daniel
USS Balch	Harold Thiemroth