Talk:USS Darter (SS-227)

WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008

Article reassessed and graded as start class. --dashiellx (talk) 11:05, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

I have a question regarding the accuracy of the article, specifically the significance of DARTER's action in the Palawan Passage. The article claims that the DARTER's contact report and the subsequent torpedo attacks she carried out along with USS DACE “initiated the Battle of Surigao Strait phase of the decisive Battle for Leyte Gulf.“ This must be considered an error. The body of IJN warships engaged in that action belonged to Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita’s Center Force, which did not participate in the surface action in the Surigao Strait (25 October, 1944). That famous engagement was fought between the two elements of the IJN Southern Force (Nishimura/Shima) and the US 7th Fleet Support Force (Oldendorf). Kurita’s Center Force was engaged by warplanes of Halsey’s US 3rd Fleet the previous afternoon (24/10/1944). Was it not was this action in the Sibuyan Sea which was initiated by DARTER’s contact report, since neither element of the Southern Force passed through DARTER’s patrol area?ENScroggs (talk) 21:41, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

moreover, no mention ismade of the fact that she had had a change of command. in command at the time of her loss was cdr. david mcclintock, usn, (numerous sources).Toyokuni3 (talk) 06:09, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

What's left of it?

Article should state: What's left of the hull now? Is it still sitting there? The photos at [1] would be great additions but they're all 'courtesy of' photos and presumably not PD. Tempshill (talk) 00:14, 4 October 2008 (UTC)