Cuir crìoch air an abairt a leanas: Aig àm an ionnsaigh air Pearl Harbor, b' e "Kumano" am bàta-staile airson an Iar-Amiral Shigeyoshi Inoue's IJN 4th Fleet agus air a chuir a-steach gus an
ionnsaigh Iapanach air Malaya mar phàirt de Vice Admiral Jisaburō Ozawa's First Southern Expeditionary Fleet, a 'toirt taic dlùth do dh' èirigh air tìr nan saighdearan Iapanach aig Singora, Pattani agus Kota Bharu.