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I served onboard HMS Duke of York and was acting Yeoman of Signals attending on Admiral Bruce Fraser. The ship did not take part in the invasion of Okinawa and did not carry out any bombardment of Japan. In fact we never fired an "angry" shot in the Pacific. We led the British element of the combined fleet into Sagami Wan (Tokyo) to accept the surrender of Japan. Lieutenant Commander Royal Navy (Rwetired) email h3jjr@btinternet.com
Geoff Mason's ship histories do not report Duke of York's presence at Okinawa, or of any bombardment operations. Since this claim is uncited, I'll remove it. Benea ( talk) 17:27, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
Seems that there are two different launch dates:
...and launched on 16 September 1939 (article)
...Launched: 28 February 1940 (template)
Сергей Олегович (
talk) 06:21, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I have done a bit of copy edit work on this article today. I am unable to help with content as I don't have any sources and ships aren't my area of expertise. However, I have the following suggestions for further improvement/expansion of this article that you might like to consider:
Anyway, good work so far and good luck with developing this article further. Cheers, AustralianRupert ( talk) 06:36, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks very much for the comments! Thurgate ( talk) 17:08, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
Should I put the article up for B-class assessment again? Thurgate ( talk) 23:02, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
FYI, Ians Buxton and Johnson will be publishing a 300+ page book devoted to DoY in late May ( ISBN 1526777290) published by Seaforth in the UK and NIP in the US, looks like it will be a real labour of love - but not cheap!! Le Deluge ( talk) 10:20, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
with those German uboats and desiel Being silent?? 70.27.141.194 ( talk) 11:04, 19 September 2023 (UTC)
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I served onboard HMS Duke of York and was acting Yeoman of Signals attending on Admiral Bruce Fraser. The ship did not take part in the invasion of Okinawa and did not carry out any bombardment of Japan. In fact we never fired an "angry" shot in the Pacific. We led the British element of the combined fleet into Sagami Wan (Tokyo) to accept the surrender of Japan. Lieutenant Commander Royal Navy (Rwetired) email h3jjr@btinternet.com
Geoff Mason's ship histories do not report Duke of York's presence at Okinawa, or of any bombardment operations. Since this claim is uncited, I'll remove it. Benea ( talk) 17:27, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
Seems that there are two different launch dates:
...and launched on 16 September 1939 (article)
...Launched: 28 February 1940 (template)
Сергей Олегович (
talk) 06:21, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I have done a bit of copy edit work on this article today. I am unable to help with content as I don't have any sources and ships aren't my area of expertise. However, I have the following suggestions for further improvement/expansion of this article that you might like to consider:
Anyway, good work so far and good luck with developing this article further. Cheers, AustralianRupert ( talk) 06:36, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks very much for the comments! Thurgate ( talk) 17:08, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
Should I put the article up for B-class assessment again? Thurgate ( talk) 23:02, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
FYI, Ians Buxton and Johnson will be publishing a 300+ page book devoted to DoY in late May ( ISBN 1526777290) published by Seaforth in the UK and NIP in the US, looks like it will be a real labour of love - but not cheap!! Le Deluge ( talk) 10:20, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
with those German uboats and desiel Being silent?? 70.27.141.194 ( talk) 11:04, 19 September 2023 (UTC)