Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Battle of Cape Esperance

Battle of Cape Esperance

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the TFAR nomination of the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page unless you are renominating the article at TFAR. For renominations, please add   to the top of the discussion and   at the bottom, then complete a new TFAR nom underneath.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/October 11, 2014 by BencherliteTalk 00:05, 16 September 2014 (UTC)



The Battle of Cape Esperance took place on 11–12 October 1942 between the Imperial Japanese Navy and U.S. Navy in the Pacific campaign of World War II. The second major surface engagement of the Guadalcanal campaign, it took place at the entrance to the strait between Savo Island and Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. The Japanese sent a major supply and reinforcement convoy to their forces on Guadalcanal. At the same time, five warships (under the command of Rear Admiral Aritomo Gotō) were to bombard the Allied airfield on Guadalcanal. Shortly before midnight on 11 October, the Americans surprised Gotō's force, sinking two warships and heavily damaging another (Japanese cruiser Aoba, pictured). Gotō was mortally wounded and his other warships were forced to retreat. Meanwhile, the Japanese supply convoy unloaded and began its return journey without being discovered; four of its destroyers turned back to assist Gotō's retreating warships, but U.S. aircraft sank two of them. The battle did not give either navy operational control of the waters around Guadalcanal, but it provided a significant morale boost to the U.S. Navy after heavy losses at the earlier Battle of Savo Island.
 * Most recent similar article(s): Battle of Morotai on September 15
 * Main editors: Cla68
 * Promoted: 2007
 * Reasons for nomination: key date = 11 October (Anniversary)
 * Support as nominator. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 20:36, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Blurb needs to be about half this length in due course. I'll ping  but if he doesn't respond here in a day or two, perhaps you could drop him a line directly to let him know about this nomination.  Thanks, BencherliteTalk 21:26, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm tickled about the nomination, but I don't have anything to add to this nomination. Since I became disillusioned with Wikipedia awhile back, I haven't been trying to keep most of my FAs maintained. Cla68 (talk) 22:38, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I've trimmed some but not my area of expertise at all, so would be guessing at what would go next. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 23:51, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
 * That never stops me... it's now 1,196 characters, so this is 4 characters within the limit and hopefully doesn't have too many howling errors. BencherliteTalk 00:25, 11 September 2014 (UTC)