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Okinawa Counterattacks[edit]

Was it Japanese Naval Air or Army Air that was counter attacking on Okinawa? I would have guessed the latter, but that would be a guess.--J Clear 21:20, 14 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This was a mistake on my part - I generally think that the Navy was involved in the battles on the Pacific islands, whereas the Army was responsible for the campaigns in China, the Philippines, and other places where most of the fighting wasn't amphibious. Since Okinawa is actually part of Japan, that wasn't the whole story. The Navy page says Kamikaze planes were particularly effective during the defense of Okinawa, in which 1,465 planes were expended to damage around 250 American warships, but this wasn't the bulk of the planes that Japan lost according to the Battle of Okinawa page. The Japanese page on the Battle of Okinawa says that most (86,000 of 116,000) of the force protecting Okinawa was from the Army, and of course, there were air bases in Okinawa. While I still think it would have been the Navy in this case, I'm not confident, so I'm changing the link to Empire of Japan. Dekimasu 02:06, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Battle stars[edit]

There is a disagreement between the number of battle stars received by Haskell in the infobox and in the Awards section of the article. Could someone with a reliable source of information have a look at that? Thank you. --Tomaxer (talk) 10:41, 15 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Name[edit]

After whom (or what) has this ship been named? 217.237.49.231 (talk) 20:33, 27 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]