Talk:Japanese aircraft carrier Jun'yō

Pintado attack

There appears to be some conflicting info. The article states:

On 3 November 1944 she was attacked by the submarine USS Pintado near Makung but her escort destroyer Akikaze deliberately intercepted the torpedoes and sank with no survivors.

But if we look at the USS Pintado article, it says the sub saw an oiler:

A bonus came on 3 November when Pintado’s periscope revealed “the largest enemy ship we have ever seen”, apparently an oiler in the support group for the Japanese carriers. Clarey fired six bow torpedoes at the huge target, but enemy destroyer Akikaze crossed their path before they could reach their target. The destroyer disintegrated in a tremendous explosion which provided an effective smoke screen protecting the original target until the two remaining Japanese escorts forced the submarine to dive and withdraw to escape exploding depth charges.

-- Adeptitus 22:54, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Naval battle naming convention

I haven't been able to find any reference for this, but capitalizing all words in the name of a naval battle (i.e. "Battle of Midway") vice just the location (i.e. "battle of Midway") seems to be the common practice, and I've modified this article to reflect that. I've also requested help on this at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/Maritime warfare task force. If anyone knows the right answer on this, please let me know.

-- Rem01 17:54, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

According to the response received over there, the "Battle of Midway" version seems to be correct (though I still haven't been pointed to a reference). "The general convention (for all battles) that I've seen used is to capitalize leading nouns; thus, "the Battle of Midway" would be the variant used. Kirill 18:28, 24 July 2007 (UTC)"

-- Rem01 00:07, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Name

Is it Jun'yō or Junyō, or both? If no one responds in 7 days I will move this to Japanese aircraft carrier Junyō. Drutt (talk) 18:22, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

Move blocked for some reason. Too bad. Drutt (talk) 12:23, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

Where was the bomber from?

In the "Career" section, there is a photo of the U.S.S. Enterprise barely being missed by a bomb dropped from a plane. The caption states that the plane was from the Jun'yo.

How is that known? There is no citation of any kind. And even the extra info section on the photo basically states that the photo shows a near miss by a dropped bomb WITHOUT saying which carrier the plane came from.

And in that battle, there were FOUR Japanese carriers! So, how certain can it be that the plane was actually from the Jun'yo?

If it can't be verified which Japanese carrier the bomber was from, then the picture should be removed since the caption would no longer be accurate. 2600:8800:787:F500:C23F:D5FF:FEC5:89B6 (talk) 07:45, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

I have added a "citation needed" tag to the caption. In addition to the problem you describe, the caption says it's a photo of an aircraft, but there is no aircraft in the photo as far as I can tell. So if the photo stays I would suggest re-wording the caption. Kendall-K1 (talk) 11:59, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

I've reworded the caption to remove reference to Jun'yo until someone can verify the carrier that launched the aircraft. Parsecboy (talk) 23:35, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

I further re-worded it because it's not a photo of an aircraft. Kendall-K1 (talk) 00:03, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

The image description says "A bomb from a Japanese Aichi D3A2 dive-bomber from the carrier Junyo barely misses the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6)" but that info is not from the image info at the source, [1]. And that source is suspect anyway because it confuses CV-6 with CVN-65. Kendall-K1 (talk) 00:06, 27 June 2017 (UTC)