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'Witnessed'

"Idaho made her triumphal entry into Tokyo Bay with occupation troops on 27 August, and witnessed the signing of the surrender on board Missouri on 2 September."

Can a ship "witness" a ceremony? Sca (talk) 18:26, 23 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Good point. That's a bit too poetic for an encyclopedia. I have seen writers describe buildings as having "witnessed" events in history, but we should avoid getting that literary. I changed it to the more prosaic "was present for". ·:· Will Beback ·:· 07:52, 24 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Some Metric conversions in Infobox are wrong

14 inches is 356 mm (not 360 mm), 5 inches is 127 mm (not 130 mm). best, 188.222.255.161 (talk) 01:15, 14 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

5"/51 guns removal date?

These two sentences do not agree with each other:

"The original secondary battery of 5-inch/51 cal. guns was removed as these guns were badly needed to arm merchant ships." (in 1942)
"The installation of these guns required the removal of the last of the old 5-inch /51 guns, as the new weapons required continuous ammunition hoists." (in 1943) Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 01:20, 20 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

And oddly both sourced to Friedman - I don't have the book in front of me at the moment (and likely won't have time for a couple of days) but I'll double check. Maybe he said 5"/25 guns in 1943? Parsecboy (talk) 11:58, 20 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]