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I'm not sure about the meaningfulness of including coastwatch co-ordinators (Feldt), civilian administrators (Marchant) and junior officers (Goode and Peagam) as "commanders" in the campaignbox. IMHO, while some of these were highly significant tactically, integrated Allied commands existed in the Pacific as early as January 1942. So I think it would be better to mention only Fletcher from the Allied side. Grant65 | Talk 14:14, 27 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, although Marchant was technically the military commander of the British Solomon Islands (according to Lord's book) even though he appears to have abdicated that responsibility to other Allied commanders. Also, after the Tulagi occupation, the only Allied forces in the Solomons (apart from some Australian commandos on Bougainville) were the coastwatchers under Feldt. I'll take out all but Marchant's and Fletcher's names from the infobox. Cla68 23:34, 27 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"Yorktown SBD aircraft return to their carrier after striking Japanese shipping in Tulagi harbor". Should it be "Yorktown SBD aircraft returns" or "Yorktown SBD aircrafts return" (as there are several aircrafts depicted)? --Brand спойт 14:29, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The plural for aircraft is "aircraft" ([1]). Therefore, it is correct as currently written. Cla68 23:10, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Lol, my major issue :P:)) --Brand спойт 11:11, 5 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In the list of Japanese casualties and losses the same line "1 destroyer" is there twice. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bennor (talk • contribs) 07:00, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That's because one destroyer was sunk and one damaged. Cla68 (talk) 10:26, 3 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed the depiction by Walter Lord of the Resident, William Marchant, as a “bewildered, elderly Englishman” as an un-necessary slur. The article doesn't single anyone else out for criticism, so it shouldn't with him, either. It is also bollocks, and (if quoted correctly) says more about Lord than it does about Marchant, I feel.
First, this article, and the one on Marchant, state that he organized the coastwatcher network, and the evacuation of civilians from the war zone, then worked at a coastwatcher station on Malaita until the campaign was over; that doesn't sound like he was baffled, uncertain or at-a-loss to me. Does Lord have any evidence that Marchant did a bad job, or that his actions were mistaken?
Second, he was 48 years old when this happened; that may be “elderly” to Lord, but he was 9 years younger than Fletcher, and 4 years younger than Inoue, the American and Japanese commanders listed in the infobox. As they aren't specifically described as elderly, there's little justification for describing Marchant as such.
And is his being an Englishman relevant? Xyl 54 (talk) 23:18, 3 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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