Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Peer review/IX Corps (United States)
IX Corps (United States)[edit]
Looking to promote this GAN upwards. Looking for any and all advice. —Ed!(talk) 22:56, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
Nick-D[edit]
It's good to see another good-quality units on a high level headquarters. This article has a good structure and seems well-referenced. My suggestions for how it could be developed further are:
- There's a bit of confusion between the corps' headquarters and the corps and its units. For example, when you write "IX Corps was first constituted on July 29, 1921" you're really only referring to the HQ. Other examples where it's unclear are "The Corps trained at Fort McPherson" (the HQ or units under it as well?), "IX Corps had been moved to Sendai", "In November 1956, over three years after the signing of the armisitce, IX Corps left the front lines, moving to Fort Buckner, Okinawa.", etc.
- What units were subordinate to the Corps HQ during World War II before it deployed overseas?
- "In Leyte, the corps tasked with the planning of Operation Downfall, the invasion of mainland Japan, specifically the island of Kyushu. It was also tasked with planning occupation once Japan surrendered" this makes it sound like the Corps HQ alone had responsibility for planning the invasion and did so concurrently with planning for the occupation of Japan if it surrendered. I'm pretty sure that at least the 6th Army's HQ and MacArthur's HQ were also involved in the development of these plans.
- "IX Corps was assigned as one of four Corps under the command of the Sixth Army, with a strength of 14 divisions." this reads likes the Corps was assigned 14 divisions, which obviously isn't right
- What units did the Corps HQ command on Hokkaidō?
- The photo of Tokyo seems out of place given that the Corps was never active in the city. The Reports of General MacArthur has some excellent PD maps you could use showing the Corps' occupation zone
- The article doesn't ever mention the non-divisional forces under the Corps command (eg, independent regiments, artillery, support units, etc)
- The article needs a bit of a copy-edit as it contains some typos
- Gordon Rottman's book Korean War Order of Battle (see pp. 11-12 in the Google books version for the units subordinate to the Corps HQ during the war) and Shelby Stanton's Order of battle, U.S. Army, World War II seem like highly relevant references. Nick-D (talk) 07:05, 5 December 2009 (UTC)