Talk:Seiichi Itō

Number of destroyers

 * In the last months of the war, Ito commanded the last major offensive by the Imperial Japanese Navy (Operation TEN-GO) when, in April 1945, he led the superbattleship IJN Yamato (included in the fleet consisted of one light cruiser and ten destroyers) in an attempt to destroy US naval forces based near Okinawa.

There were only eight destroyers. Kurt Leyman 15:34, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
 * [Reverted] unsourced change. Speaksure 15:48, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

The number is given in Operation Ten-Go article. And if you suddenly have a source for ten Japanese destroyers then all history books need to be rewritten. Kurt Leyman 12:59, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
 * [Reverted] questionable information by Kurt Leyman. Rex Germanus 15:27, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Read the Operation Ten-Go. I am not responsible if the numbers there are wrong. Kurt Leyman 23:13, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Do not remove fact tags. I don't care who's "respondisible" its still unreferenced information! Rex Germanus 18:52, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

The information is NOT unsourced. See Operation Ten-Go throughly and think before doing this again. Kurt Leyman 23:33, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Mr. Leyman is correct according to Raymond O'Connor's The Japanese Navy in World War II, one of the references used when I originally wrote the article. In addition, Trevor N. Dupuy's The Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography states:


 * ..commander of the last sortie of the Japanese navy, a futile attempt by the superbattleship Yamato, a light cruiser, and eight destroyers to destroy American naval forces off Okanawa (April 1945);

MadMax 23:41, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Problem
Seiichi_Itō was "only" the commander of IJN force during Operation Ten-Go and Yamato was his Flagship, BUT Itō wasnt the commander of Yamato. The (last) commander of Yamato was Kōsaku Aruga.--Midnight bird (talk) 15:32, 21 August 2011 (UTC)