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Another article states that the Mikuma was eventually scuttled by a Japanese destroyer. I gather that's wrong? --Kizor 12:16, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

According to [1], Japanese Admiral Kondo ordered the destroyer Asashio to scuttle Mikuma but when Asashio arrived Mikuma had already sank on it's own. What other article says that Mikuma was scuttled? If you could fix it, that would be very helpful. Cla68 12:25, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

It was SBD Dauntless. Fixed. --Kizor 14:25, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Collision between Mikuma and Mogami

The article states under "Battle of Midway" that:

"Kumano signaled a 45° simultaneous turn to starboard to avoid possible torpedoes. The emergency turn was correctly executed by the flagship and Suzuya, but the third ship in the line, Mikuma, erroneously made a 90° turn. Behind her, Mogami turned 45° as commanded. This resulted in a collision in which Mogami rammed Mikuma's portside, below the bridge."

There are two ways this can be interpreted:

 1. If Mikuma turned starboard 90 degrees, then Mogami either hit Mikuma on her starboard side or else Mogami had to pass Mikuma and come back to hit her on her port side.

 2. If Mikuma turned port 90 degrees, then to collide, Mogami must have also turned to port but at 45 degrees, resulting in the collision.  Otherwise, if Mogami had turned starboard she would have missed Mikuma totally.

While in the confusion of the moment case 2 is possible, from the information available from this article it would seem that the more likely scenario is that Mogami hit Mikuma on Mikuma's starboard side rather than her port side and the article simply needs to be corrected.

However, if there was miscommunication down the line of the four ships, that information should be expounded upon.

199.209.255.246 (talk) 15:49, 4 June 2008 (UTC)eef