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The lead seems a little choppy and this might be resolved by adding to the first paragraph. Specifically you might consider adding that the ships were among the last Japanese warships to reach the home islands from the South West Pacific as it might serve to clarify the significance of the operation. I would suggest doing this as the final sentence in the first paragraph.
I've tweaked the lead - I think that the sentence you suggested worked better in the first paragraph, so I've induced it there
"next fourteen hours, but were unable to do so" should this be 14 per WP:MOSNUM?
Probably, fixed
Use of abbrevs seems inconsistent here: "Army Air Forces", should you just use USAAF here?
As the sentence begins with 'USAAF', this would be repetitive. I think I've seem this strategy (trick?) used in histories of the USAAF (though don't ask me which ones!)
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No major problems AFAIK.
Can an oclc or isbn be added to the reference list for Craven?
Done (the entire series seems to share a single ISBN and a single OCLC; I've gone with the ISBN
You might consider consolidating the Nevitt reference as a named ref as it is used a couple of times.
They're separate articles on the Combined Fleet website, so I think it's better to leave them as separate references to make it clear what the sources are
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It is stable.
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It contains images, where possible, to illustrate the topic.
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Images are appropriate for article and are correctly licenced where required.