Talk:Japanese destroyer Amatsukaze (1939)

Other successes by destroyer Amatsukaze

In the spring of 1942, during the Dutch East Indies campaign, Amatsukaze attacked the already damaged submarine USS Perch on the surface with gunfire, and observed hits. Perch submerged and escapted, but the next night was caught on the surface while attempting repairs by two different Japanese destroyers, and was scuttled.

During the Carrier battle of the Eastern Solomons the captain of Amatsukaze sent one of the most unusual messages ever sent by a Japanese vessel during the war, when he sent a signal to the carrier Ryujo asking them why there was no combat air patrol. Ryujo then readied zero fighters, but was attacked and sunk by aircraft before they could take off.

Amatsukaze and another destroyer raided the atoll of Ndeni, far south of Guadalcanal and used by PBY flying boats, two weeks prior to the carrier battle of Santa Cruz, but the atoll did not have any planes there during the surface raid.

At the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal in November 1942, Amatsukaze first sank the destroyer USS Barton with torpedoes, then turned north and a short time later hit the light cruiser USS Juneau with one torpedo, crippling the ship. Juneau was sunk the next day by Japanese submarine I-26. Amatsukaze also hit the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco with gunfire during the battle. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Azeh (talk • contribs) 01:18, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

Well, over ten years later and this has finally been fixed. She also destroyed an oil tanker while assisting to capture Davao and helped to capture the hospital shop Op Ten Noort. I've always dislike how most Wiki editors seemingly focus on whether articles are bad as opposed to whether they're good. Like you can have a terrible article that barely describes a ship's career, but as long as it's not actively spreading misinformation nothing is ever done about it. Micheal Harrens (talk) 20:21, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

WP:SOFIXIT There are multiple thousands of ship articles, most of which need serious improvement, which depends on an editor caring enough to devote hours of their recreational time to improve them. It's honestly a wonder that we have as many good ones as we do. Nothing's stopping you from doing that yourself, provided that you follow Wiki's policies. --Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 14:17, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

You make some great points, and that's what I'm doing. I've made major edits to Zuikaku and Yukikaze's pages, and I'm working on doing the same to Amatsukaze, and plan on working on USS Honolulu, USS Boise, USS Denver, Tanikaze, and Hamakaze's pages.

I also plan on attempting to make some new pages. I want to do something simple first, PT-493 deserves a page, being the only allied loss at the battle of the Surigao Strait, and the contention of her sinking (most US accounts talk of a Japanese destroyer(s) shelling her, but Japanese records credit Yamashiro's secondary battery for the kill) could use some clarification. Micheal Harrens (talk) 17:52, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

See WP:MILNG and WP:N for guidance on notability; being the sole PT-boat lost during the battle is probably not enough, IMO. You'll need to discover how much detailed coverage is available to see if she is truly notable.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 18:46, 10 July 2024 (UTC)