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The ship was armed with a main battery of nine 16"/45 caliber Mark 6 guns[a] guns in three triple gun turrets on the centerline, two of which were placed in a superfiring pair forward, with the third aft. The other four turrets were placed aft of the superstructure in two superfiring pairs.
This appears to me to be erroneous since it refers to three turrets in the main battery (which I believe is correct), then "the other four turrets" which I believe to be an error. There are not any other turrets in the main battery. Since I am not a subject expert I just wanted to draw the attention of someone that may actually know what is being referred to here. — Preceding
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107.4.134.53 (
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02:38, 25 June 2017 (UTC)reply
Relief of Commanding Officer Subsequent to Collision
The entry regarding the relief of the commanding officer subsequent to the collision with USS Washington is in error. It reads as follows:
On 23 January Admiral Chester Nimitz removed him from command and replaced him with Captain Thomas Peyton.
According to ussindianabb58.com, James Mortimer Steele assumed command of the ship on 13 January 1944, and was relieved just two months later, on 17 March. He was replaced by Thomas Joseph Keliher. Steele and Keliher were the fourth and fifth commanding officers of the ship. Thomas Green Peyton was the second commanding officer. In any event, the collision occurred on 1 February, after the 23 January date cited in the article.
SeymourBears (
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02:18, 30 August 2013 (UTC)reply
not relevant to this ship ....
This material more properly belongs at "The Battle of the Philippine Sea" as it is not directly involved with Indiana. I removed it to help tighten the prose:
... and as four large air raids hit the American formations, the F6F Hellcats of the fleet, with minor assistance by the ships in the screens, shot down nearly 400 of the Japanese attackers. With able assistance from submarines, Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's forces sank three Japanese aircraft carriers, including Shōkaku and the brand-new Taihō. The air battle was called the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot".[11]
Fix the rounding error in the lede and in armor para as well as the excess precision for 17.3 inch barbettes. The conversion for the conning tower is redundant.
Think I've got these all
Convert .50-caliber and be sure to explain how it's different than caliber length
Done
Make sure that the infobox weapons totals match the armament para
Done
hyphenate Triple gun, fire control, surface search, air search if you chose to keep it as there's an article on early-warning radar.
Done
Add links to search radar, fire-control radar, Majuro
Done
Pretty sure that the Mk 3, 4, 12/22 radars were mounted on the Mk 37 directors, not the conning tower
Will need to check Friedman on this
Link battery (artillery) in the lede and add links to secondary battery and main battery
Done
Was the captain relieved when Indiana and Washington collided?
Not that DANFS says
Tell the reader where Seeadler Harbor is and the same for Ponpei
Done
When was she transferred to TG 34?
DANFS doesn't give specific details, but Halsey and 3rd Fleet took command of the FCTF four days before, though I don't know how immediate the unit re-numberings was.
I can tell that you really haven't researched her role during the Marianas, since I just had to do that for Hornet, and what you have is OK, but what I was wondering was more when she was transferred from TU 58.7.3 to TF 34 rather than the renumbering from 5th to 3rd Fleet.--
Sturmvogel 66 (
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23:25, 29 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Not sure that non-military types will understand "check her fire". Perhaps "cease fire"?
Done
Link sortie
Done
Japanese air attacks or kamikaze attacks?
Both were bombed - but regardless, kamikazes are air attacks :P
battleship Yamato but they and 15 April but did and in 1966 but her commas needed
Done
Tell the reader that the A6M is a Zero and that both the A6M and the Ki-43 are fighters. Double-check for other instances where you haven't identified the aircraft types.
I’m seeing that USS Indiana and USS Alabama are both involved in the battle of the Philippines sea. With both saying they saw the first wave of Japanese aircraft on June 19. Either Alabama was there or Indiana was there and saw them first. Both couldn’t have saw them first. And neither are mentioned as sailing with the other as they’re being said to sail with either Massachusetts or South Dakota
12.71.223.35 (
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04:47, 17 September 2022 (UTC)reply