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Talk:USS Ward

message: This edit caught my eye. The edit summary says, "Clarify the actual country that fired its first shot", but the edit does not do that. Looking for details, I see in the article that the article says, that Ward's attack took place at 06:37. The Attack on Pearl Harbor article does not seem to clearly indicate the time of the first Japanese shot, but I see that  (cited in that article) says, "The first group arrived over Oahu at about 0740, were ordered to attack at 0750 and attacked as follows: [...]". Further clarification here and/or in other articles might be useful, or might not; I'm in a rush just now and don't have time to think about that, but I thought I would mention it here. Wtmitchell  (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 08:13, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Clarification needed?

message: I removed a phrase from the construction section that Ward was the first ship built.  Besides being unclear as to what that means (first ship ever, first ship at Mare Island, first Wickes-class built, first Wickes-class built at Mare island...), none of those are true.  I don't know what that phrase was intended to mean, so I cropped it down to the more note-worthy piece about the speed of her construction. Dworjan (talk) 22:00, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  First Ship Built?
Talk:12th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)

message: I propose that 2nd Infantry Division (Germany) and 2nd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) be merged into 12th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht), as the 2nd Infantry Division was converted into the 12th Panzer Division. I think that the content in the two 2nd Division articles (which are almost identical) can easily be explained in the context of this article, and this article is of a reasonable size that the merging of the two 2nd Division articles will not cause any problems as far as article size or undue weight is concerned. The two 2nd Division articles would remain as redirects. Peacemaker67  (send... over) 03:46, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Is this proposal still active or has it gone stale after more than 2 years? Personally I would prefer separate articles as they are essentially separate divisions. Stoves in Die Gepanzerten und Motorisierten Deutschen Grossverbände 1935 – 1945 awards them separate entries in his book while Mitcham only makes a passing reference to the pre-October 1940 history in The Panzer Legions. Calistemon (talk) 13:16, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 

message: I think, 2nd ID (mot) had another. Was this a, how should one put it, "six-edged" rectangle (no real Hexagon, but six edges), quadrilateral with added two-edge on the right, down right a number "2" ? Thank you. --213.172.123.242 (talk) 12:01, 28 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Troop sign (vehicle)
Talk:Mikhail Kirponos

message: anybody think of getting a picture of him...? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Counterstrike69 (talk • contribs) 03:10, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Picture

message: This article states this, but Nikolai Vatutin, a full army general, was killed by partisans in 1944. Certainly he would only die of his wounds later, but I feel like this should be mentioned in some form here. AntColony.555 (talk) 01:01, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Additionally, Ivan Chernyakhovsky, General of the Arny, was also killed in action (by artillery fire). 70.107.209.47 (talk) 02:44, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Highest ranking Soviet officer killed in combat?
Talk:12th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

message: Article reassessed and graded as start class.  Referencing and appropriate inline citation guidelines not met.    --dashiellx (talk) 15:23, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008 

message: Florian Berger does not appear to be a "reputable historian" (per WP:MILMOS) and therefore I question these statements cited to him:
*... where Captain Siegfried Moldenhauer was awarded a Close Combat Clasp for his services as acting-commander of the 48th Grenadier Regiment's (the 4th and 89th Infantry Regiments were redesignated "Grenadier" regiments in the course of the year, while the 27th became a "Fusilier Regiment") 1st Battalion. In January 1944, Moldenhauer became the commander of the regiment's 2nd Battalion, and was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross by Major General von Lützow. Soon after, fighting near Mogilew led to the death of 1st Battalion's commander, Major Kurt Klinger – another Knights Cross recipient. Moldenhauer subsequently assumed command of that battalion as well.
* After an effective defence of the road into Mogilev, the 1st Battalion's commander, Major Kurt Klinger – another Knight's Cross recipient – was killed by enemy fire. Moldenhauer subsequently assumed command of that battalion as well. With the Soviet 49th Army crossing the Dnieper, the division was ordered to withdraw into the town, which it was to hold at all costs, and subsequently suffered catastrophic casualties in its defence, leading to a successful Soviet occupation on 28 June. The men under Moldenhauer's command managed to escape the encirclement through a small corridor to the east. The men under the command of Wilhelm Osterhold held the 2nd Battalion's rear to aide in its escape.
I would like to copyedit these areas. Please let me know if there are any concerns. K.e.coffman (talk) 05:07, 18 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: It's been over a month so I will go ahead and remove. K.e.coffman (talk) 17:29, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Berger
Talk:James Bradley (American author)

message: this page is pure puffery.  He took "infinite" care, or whatever ?  Does the writer of that publicity release know the meaning of "infinite"  74.66.68.54 (talk) 19:58, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. While Bradley's first two books were generally highly regarded as historically accurate, his third book is far more controversial and borders on a "harangue" in the minds by many general readers (see for example the various reviews by readers on Amazon of all three). Even professional reviewers point this out - for example, the reviewer for Booklist writes, "Bradley’s first books, Flags of Our Fathers (2000) and Flyboys (2003), were sensationally popular World War II combat stories.His new one, about U.S.-Japanese diplomacy in 1905, represents a departure. Asserting a causal connection between diplomatic understandings reached then and war 36 years later, Bradley dramatizes his case with a delegation Theodore Roosevelt dispatched to Japan in the summer of 1905. Led by Secretary of War William Taft and ornamented by the president’s quotable daughter Alice, it sailed while TR hosted the peace conference between victorious Japan and defeated Russia. As he recounts the itinerary of Taft’s cruise, Bradley discusses attitudes of social Darwinism and white superiority that were then prevalent and expressed by TR and Taft. They modified their instincts, Bradley argues, in dealing with nonwhite Japan, and secretly conceded it possession of Korea. This is what Bradley asserts was a prerequisite to Pearl Harbor in 1941, a dubious thesis when the tensions of the 1930s stemmed from general Japanese aggressiveness, not its control of Korea per se. Bradley does fine on 1905 but falters when predicting the future." Some professional historians are less kind, describing "the pomposity and the utter absurdity..." of Bradley's work in "Imperial Cruise." Sadly, he appears to continue his revisionist views apparently in the fourth book on east-west history released in April 2015.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.50.92.159 (talk) 13:34, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOV?

message: I found a link via the wayback machine with some biographical information. I added it to the page. It was not a lot and if anyone else wants to do more digging they are welcome to it!
AnneofKeys (talk) 20:48, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biography
Talk:USS Cachalot (SS-170)

message: =================    location of the yard
At the time the submarine was built, the Navy considered the Yard to be in NH not Main.  My friends birth certificate from the base says NH.  Wikipedia usually puts  the location as it was accepted at the time.  For example a person would be listed as born in the Arizona Territory, and their might be a note that the location is now in New Mexico.
Saltysailor (talk) 00:12, 2 June 2020 (UTC)
Talk:3rd Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)

message: INDUCTED OCT. 1941,EBERSWALDE. WOUNDED 23. AUGUST 1942 AT MOSDOK IN THE KAUKASUS.
FRED A SIMON   THE-BERLINER@ CHARTER.NET  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.178.172.92 (talk) 19:41, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  I WAS PART OF THE 3RD PANZER DIVISION FROM OCT.1941 TO AUGUST 1942
Talk:100th Jäger Division (Wehrmacht)

message: Article reassessed and graded as stub --dashiellx (talk) 11:13, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008 

message: I know this article is about a division, but I do think the word 'division' crops up with depressing frequency (seven times in the introduction alone) and numerous times throughout the article itself. This might mean it has to be re-written.
What do other editors think?
RASAM (talk) 16:29, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: ''That'' word
Talk:Opel Blitz

message: Dear wikipedians, it's unclear to me the validity of the information in the section Successor for this article. Hence tagged as requiring an inline citation. Can anyone please clarify this? Thanks & regards, DPdH (talk) 13:24, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Successor to this truck? 

message: No, I'm afraid that's wrong. First removal trailers were used, only the gas bottles filled with CO were transported by the truck, later Diamond T built moving vans, using CO of the the vehicles' exhaust fumes, and then, after first "successes" by doing so, really large (at least in Europe by that time) 5 tons trucks of the former Austrian, from 1938 till 1945 German, truck manufacturer Oesterreichische Saurerwerke ...
Regards, Étienne d'A.--- Le seul et l'unique toubib (talk) 19:19, 22 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  "...the Opel Blitz was used by Germans extensively in The Holocaust as a modified carbon monoxide gas van so that they didn't have to go through the discomfort of seeing the people they were murdering..."?
Talk:XXXIX Panzer Corps

message: according to Article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Doppelkopf:
"while the XXXIX Panzer Corps was assembled at Tauragė / Tauroggen.[1]"
In this article though it says for Doppelkopf the armee corps was in Courland!
Between Courland and Taurage (south Lithuania) there is a distance of some 200 miles!
151.136.147.145 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 12:41, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Operation Doppelkopf 1944
Talk:Emergency Fighter Program

message: There was no such Program / Competition issued by the RLM oder Luftwaffe. I've read through the linked source, and I guess, it's been confused with Kleinstjäger - which means basically Tiny Fighter or Smallest Fighter. However, there wasn't even a Kleinstjägerprogramm for the officials never demanded expressively a Tiny Fighter but remained with their task for a cheap and easy to build fighter - which is plain the framework of the Jägernotprogramm. Some aircraft-manufacturers (like Arado) approached this demand by developing Kleinstjägers on their own to propose them to the Luftwaffe afterwards. The Noun Kleinstjäger was invented by the manufacturers themselves (or sometimes later on considered by historians) - still there was no such called program / project. The noun Kleinstjäger was given but only to those aircrafts where the pilot steered the device in a lying position, thus reducing the cross section to the utmost minimum. Even with the Heinkel P.1077 historians are unsure whether it is to be considered a Kleinstjäger or not. Heinkel themselves never called it that.In short: Kleinsjägers were an outcome of the Jägernotprogramm, but never a project on itself, and definitely not a Luftwaffe competition.Implementing this into the article would change it vastly. So I`d like to discuss this matter in the Talk-section before performing any major changes. Kleinalrik (talk) 07:01, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: The issue is that reliable sources do refer to a Miniaturjäger competition - Smith & Kay's German Aircraft of the Second World War talks in reasonable detail about the November 1944 requiremtn for the similist possible fighter that could be more rapidly produced than the He 162 - it is discussed as a separate programme from the Volkjager programme and the "Emergency Fighter" competition for a single-engine high altitude, high performance fighter powered by the Heinkel-Hirth 109-011 jet.Nigel Ish (talk) 16:06, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for your detailed response. I do not own this book, so I need to go through this source first. Oddly, I cannot find any german source depicting the noun Miniaturjäger. I will get back on this topic until I found out more. Kleinalrik (talk) 16:18, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Here are some sources: November 1944 Paperback (see the cover of the book), a coeval German document, another book. --Cyfal (talk) 20:56, 11 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for this addition. I was still going to reject your response since I still didn't find any german source and thought it's a translation error by Smith & Key. Your find is pretty convincing. Kleinalrik (talk) 14:15, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Miniaturjägerprogramm
Talk:4th Panzer Army

message: There were no "Panzer Armies" in France, I believe the original author may be confusing the 4. Panzer Armee with von Kluge's 4. Armee.  The VIII. Corps was part of von Kluge's forces.  The other 2 corps listed as being under control of the unit didn't even exist in 1940.  The listed commander, Hoepner, commanded the XVI. Armeekorps in the Battle of France. The LVI. Corps wasn't activated until Feb. 1941 (which is around the time Panzergruppe 4 was activated.)  If no one has anything to add to this, most importantly, a source for it, I'm going to totally remove that section.  The comments even say that it was the primary armored thrust for the Battle of France.  This isn't true in the least, as Panzergruppe Kleist "led the way", and it consisted of Guderian's XIX. Corps, Hoth's XV. Corps, and (IIRC) Reinhardt's XXXXI. Corps. 
Comments?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.23.37.145 (talk) 09:44, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  No 4. Panzer Armee in France..
Talk:Greater kudu

message: The article claims that a small introduced population is found in New Mexico. Can anyone find evidence as back - up for this?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.213.190.17 (talk) 12:29, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Mexico Population

message: If they dissapear into cover not being noticed. So they appear there then just vanish as if by magic as nobody was paying attention to notice them leave? they are not incontrol of somone failing to notice them. The comment doesnt make sence.--203.192.91.4 (talk) 16:54, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  kudus have also been known to disappear into cover without being noticed to avoid chase 

message: I believe the naked reference to "hunting" (as causing declines in kudu numbers) wtihout further clarifiaction is misleading. 
I just returned from the limpopo region of SA, where i hunted on 2 ranches that had over 10,000 head of plains game -- including hundreds (literally) of kudu. Prior to 1972, these two ranches were cattle ranches -- no kudu whatsoever. The commercial hunting has supported the reintroduction of kudu and other plains game to the point that it is teaming (teeming?) with wildlife.  
My suggestion is that "hunting" be replaced with "poaching" and "unregulated hunting".  It is simply wrong to say that hunting is harming the kudu numbers when organized hunting is actually contributing to kudu numbers.  (the rancher takes 300 head of game -- all types -- per year off both ranches.)
William Crawford buck@crawfordstrategy.com  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.85.23.116 (talk) 23:43, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  reference to hunting 

message: Is this also the buck one might hit if driving at night, or is that another type?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Felixandhisthoothbrush (talk • contribs) 09:20, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Driving at night
Talk:Josef Jakobs

message: Really wikipedia? Posting an old cheap joke like that on the frontpage? The source at least doesn't mention it. It's apparently in the article since forever, but it's still not really funny.
2A02:8109:A180:2B70:785B:D7EA:966E:991D (talk) 17:06, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I assumed it was a joke too, but https://www.trivia-library.com/b/famous-lasts-the-last-execution-in-the-tower-of-london.htm seems to be a source for it, apparently predating the edit that introduced it here https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Josef_Jakobs&diff=284079679&oldid=275119595 Slogby (talk) 22:04, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  " and a german sausage" 

message: ¿Did the intelligence service offer to spare his life, if he would talk?
I understand the desire to kill all spies, but if one gives them a choice between good treatment if they talk, or death if they not, most sing like canaries.  If one treats all spies like POWs or execute all spies, spies have no incentive to divulge useful intelligence, but if one offers a choice between good treatment or death, one can get good intelligence from them.  Sticks and carrots work much better than all stick or all carrot.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:643:C002:2830:48DE:EA99:2C21:648 (talk) 22:56, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  With the fog of war, none probably can answer this.
Talk:Festungsfront Oder-Warthe-Bogen

message: On a recent visit I was told the Warsaw pact forces in Poland used the site as a missile silo during the cold war. No sources to back this up at the moment though.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.13.199.158 (talk) 16:28, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Use during the cold war

message: http://www.ww2museums.com/article/5393/Ostwall---Panzerwerk-A8-West.htm says that this part of the Ostwall was built between 1939-1940.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.255.39.245 (talk) 08:40, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Building ended in 1940
Talk:Horst Julius Freiherr Treusch von Buttlar-Brandenfels

message: Rundstedt was Generalfeldmarschall of the German army during the initial Normandy landings by Allied troops.
The writer seems to believe Generalfeldmarschall was a high military office. It’s just a rank and not unique. The text should say: ”Rundstedt was Oberbefehlshaber West, commanding the German forces on the western front, during...”. 2A02:AA1:1014:F0C5:69F5:F7E3:77AB:29B8 (talk) 17:56, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Generalfeldmarschall of the German army
Talk:Flettner Fl 184

message: The author has mixed up the Gigant with the Fl 184. the gigant , which flew tethered in 1932 was a true helicopter with a powered rotor, but the Fl 184 was an autogyro with an un-powered rotor!!Petebutt (talk) 03:42, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Mixed metaphor
Talk:Italian bombing of Mandatory Palestine in World War II

message: The sentence about Italian bombing of oil refineries in Bahrain is irrelevant here. Bahrain is part of the Arabian Peninsula. PRRP (talk) 07:13, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oil Refineries in Bahrain 
Talk:Flettner Fl 282

message: Although the article claims that the Fl 282 was the "first helicopter to achieve mass-production status", even a cursory look at other helicopter projects during World War II shows that this was not the case. The Fl 282 first flew in 1941 and entered production in 1942, while the Focke-Achgelis Fa 223 first flew in 1940 and entered production in 1941.   — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.224.66.196 (talk) 03:55, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Not the first production helicopter

message: There are some remarkable differences between the German and the English Wikipedia articles. As the autor of the first verion of the German Article I used the German publication “Flugzeug Profile” and copies of vintage documents. According to a preliminary data sheet there where two B Versions: B-0 and B-1. B-0 Kolibris indeed had open cockpits, but B-1 had enclosed cockpits. The 1.000 helicopters to be prodced for the Army were planned to be built by BMW in Eisenach, not in Munich ! 89.31.1.230 (talk) 11:59, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  B-Versions and BMW production 

message: Does anyone know if this is the model for the rather anachronistically modern looking helicopter that appeared in the film "Where Eagles Dare"? I seem to remember that that one had a kind of geodesic bubble canopy on the front and that it transported more than one person. But maybe the design for the film was just pure fantasy - like the film itself, in fact :-) . hombre 217.135.146.138 (talk) 00:36, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where Eagles Dare 

message: How could the FI 282 have destroyed allied tanks if it was completely unarmed? There are no references in any documentation to any sort of carried armament.
76.170.170.58 (talk) 02:23, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  First tankbusting raid? 
Talk:Wrawby

message: Would easily have been a C with even some references--Robert EA Harvey (talk) 07:23, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment
Talk:My Japan

message: Hi,
although the article provides a plausible interpretation and argument, it may violate the Original Research/Unpublished Synthesis guideline of the Wikipedia Project. Some scientific papers as secondary sources may be useful. -- 89.247.122.147 (talk) 22:48, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original Research / Unpublished Synthesis 
Talk:List of British colonial divisions in World War II

message: My rationale:
# "Empire" always included the Dominions and was not used to mean only Crown Colonies.
#  The British Empire officially became the British Commonwealth in 1926. (Commonwealth of Nations from 1949.)
#  The Indian Empire had a status distinct from both the Dominions and the Crown Colonies.
#  Regiments (etc) are not divisions
Cheers,
Grant | Talk 07:45, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that the changes were a mistake. The term British Empire was widely used in World War II and I think it was useful to have an article that lists those divisions from other places within the Empire that were not from the dominions. -- PBS (talk) 04:21, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  April 2009 changes 
Talk:Continental Airlines Flight 11

message: In the novel Airport by Arthur Hailey it does not state that D.O. Guerrero bought the "largest amount available", he simply buys the largest policy he can afford, using even some small change to buy it.  I am going to be bold and change this article accordingly.  Matt 19:12, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: The Novel Airport

message: According to aviation-safety.net, this same aircraft (N70775) was involved in a hijacking while operating as Flight 54 on a route from Los Angeles to Houston. Meltdown627 (talk) 16:45, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hijacking 

message: I wonder if it is possible to get newspaper archives that state the kanji of Takehiko Nakano
WhisperToMe (talk) 08:47, 25 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Japanese name of Takehiko Nakano 
Talk:Kovno Ghetto

message: "Kaunas Ghetto" 6,000/"Kovno Ghetto" 40,000. I suggest renaming the article to "Kovno Ghetto", since this is a much more popular name. We also use this name variant in Vilna Ghetto. Comments? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk  18:59, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Name
Talk:Feldafing displaced persons camp

message: Even though the DP camp was largely built on the same area as the school, it seems to me that the two have very distinct histories, and - obviously - purposes. Also, it seems a little unfair to the students of the school (many of whom rose to prominence quite disassociated from Nazism) to make such a stark contrast with the DP camp; and unfair to the DP camp residents to compare with the SA and NSDAP. --Leifern (talk) 19:04, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Feldafing Reichschule 