# Talk:Japanese destroyer Teruzuki (1941)

@Primergray: You made a lot of changes to the article in two edits. I didn't always agree with those in your first edit, but they were largely inconsequential. Your second edit introduced some WP:Manual of Style errors and grammatical faults. I reverted you in the expectation that you would then go to the talk page to discuss our disagreements as per WP:BRD. Instead you reverted my reversion, something that I did not expect an experienced editor like yourself to so. So I'll do it for you:

MOS:DATERANGE states that overnight periods can be written with a slash like I did or an endash. You changed it to a hyphen
I wrote something in which the IJN was far more experienced and you changed it to something which the IJN was far more experienced in which is just bad grammar, IMO
You changed task to job; far too informal for an encyclopedia article
You decapitalized Rear Admirals, ignoring the fact that their names immediately followed and violating MOS:JOBTITLE
You changed my to find Kirishima to with finding Kirishima, a nominalization and something I was taught to avoid in my academic writing class
You changed survivors to sailors, something that I think weakens the statement
I write every article with the expectation that someday I'll take them to WP:FAC so the MOS issues are likely more important to me than to you. Your other changes were either improvements or stylistic differences which don't bother me.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 09:22, 15 May 2023 (UTC)

I believe some American historians have spread overblown accounts of Teruzuki's actions during the naval battle of Guadalcanal, often saying she sank USS Cushing, helped to sink USS Laffey and Monssen (torpedoing the latter), and crippled USS Sterett. However, when accessing more Japanese based sources, Teruzuki only fired 160 rounds during the engagement, which with a rate of fire of 20-22 rounds per minute and 8 guns equates to around just one minute of firing. I doubt that would be anywhere near enough to score hits to Cushing, Laffey, Monssen and/or Sterett. She claimed to have engaged up to 7 vessels, but only claimed to have actually sank 1 destroyer, undoubtedly USS Cushing.
Sources: [1], [2], [3], (Japanese destroyer captain-Chapter 20).
As for the others, my leading theory is that Teruzuki has been attributed for many of the actions during the battle which were actually performed by Yukikaze. The two operated together, but Yukikaze's records for the longest time were not available to the public. Yukikaze fired 374 rounds during the battle, equating to around 6 minutes of firing, already making her a greater contender. I believe she helped to sink Cushing alongside Teruzuki, then torpedoed the Laffey. Teruzuki stayed behind to assist the crippled Hiei, while Yukikaze continued on and crippled Sterett with eleven 5-inch shell hits. 
Sources: [4][5] Micheal Harrens (talk) 16:08, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Also, Japanese sources regularly state Teruzuki was hit by two torpedoes, not one Micheal Harrens (talk) 16:15, 8 January 2025 (UTC)