Talk:Battle of the Komandorski Islands

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[edit] Objections

1. Due to the remote location of the battle and chance encounter on open ocean, neither fleet had air or submarine assistance, making this the only engagement exclusively between surface ships in the Pacific Theatre, and the last pure gunnery duel in naval history. - ehm... And what about battle of Savo island? (and many other battles during Salamon campaign...)
2. This article represents imho US-point of view. It's only about actions of US Navy ships and the enemy is mentioned only as Japan/japanese. Actions of Salt Lake City and another US vessels are described, but there is nothing about Nachi, Maya, Tama, Abukuma (and 4 destroyers)

--Sceadugenga 08:35, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Your objections are valid so, please feel free to fix the article. A complete list of credible references and sources are listed. Some of them are even on the web, so you don't have to go to the library or bookstore to get them. The Combinedfleet.com links give the Japanese POV, but without great detail. Cla68 08:51, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

I just read over the Battle of Savo Island page, and it actually mentions quite a bit of involvement by air and submarine assets on both sides. Allied planes and subs sighted the Japanese force a few times and tried to report them, while Japanese aircraft dropped flares to support their surface ships during the battle itself. Dunno if you want to count those as examples Masterblooregard (talk) 22:45, 5 February 2008 (UTC)