Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Operation Kita

Operation Kita
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 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for 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. 

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/February 10, 2014 by BencherliteTalk 19:01, 26 January 2014‎ (UTC)



Operation Kita was conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the Pacific War in February 1945 to return both Ise-class hybrid battleship-aircraft carriers (Ise pictured) and their escorts to Japan from Singapore, where they had been based since November 1944. Before departing, the Japanese ships (designated the Completion Force) were loaded with supplies of oil and other raw materials to help get supplies through the Allied blockade of Japan. The Completion Force sailed on 10 February 1945 and was sighted leaving port by a Royal Navy submarine. The Allies, who had learned of the Completion Force's composition and goals from decrypting Japanese radio signals, planned coordinated attacks by U.S. submarines and aircraft. All attempts failed and the Completion Force reached its destination of Kure, Japan, on 20 February without suffering any casualties. Due to the intensifying Allied blockade, the Ise-class ships and their escorts were among the last IJN warships to reach Japan safely from the Southwest Pacific. All the ships of the Completion Force were sunk in or near Japanese home waters before the end of the war.
 * Held FA status for 2+ years-2 points, Date relevant to article topic-1 point, Last naval article December 7-0 points.
 * Total-3 points. QatarStarsLeague (talk) 16:37, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment: The blurb is almost 600 characters over (as proposed: 286 words, 1770 characters with spaces) the 1200-character space limit. trim about 80-90 words.--ColonelHenry (talk) 16:46, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Rewritten, 1,141 now. BencherliteTalk 17:29, 23 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Support, also, blurb looks nice size at this point. Cheers, &mdash; Cirt (talk) 00:18, 26 January 2014 (UTC)