Talk:Lesley J. McNair

message: Thousands of colored soldiers were slain in world War I in Europe.  Some of the survivors remained in the Army, for some time. There were Negroes in the Army between World War I and World War II.  The Army was not all-Caucasian between the two wars.  I placed a "citation needed" notice onto the article.  Harshness prevailed in the heyday of the Ku Klux Klan, however, some Negroes found a home in the army during the 1930s.  They were trained soldiers who received sparse pay.  The Ku Klux Klan killed colored soldiers, too, of course.  Superslum 11:01, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Too many pages in wikipedia are decorated by the worn out term "African American."  Try to limit yourself to making comments about the subject of the page, please.  There is no need for a useless comment. Colored (people) fought under illustrious Americans such as George Washington and Andrew Jackson, too.  Negroes were sailors in the U. S. Navy during the War of 1812.  In some capacity, Negroes have been a part of the U. S. Army continuously since 1863.  Look at Buffalo soldiers. Superslum 20:51, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
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message: This article says McNair was the highest-ranking US officer killed in WWII, but it doesn't say anywhere actually how he died. Is it true it was as a result of friendly fire? Terraxos 18:40, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: How did he die?

message: A couple of comments strike me as being overly critical:
"McNair saw no need for a heavy tank and believed that tank versus tank duels were "unsound and unnecessary". McNair would agree only to the production of the 76mm M4 Sherman which he believed were capable of handling the Tiger I tank that had appeared in late 1942."
Tank on tank duels were, from my own reading, somewhat of a rarity, not to mention the rarity of Tiger tanks. It seems this para needs a little balancing. It goes on to talk about McNair blocking production to Pershing tanks. Not being an American, it seems odd that a member of the military (and one who was in charge of training) would be able to have an impact on industrial production; this needs elaborated upon. Finally, in regards to this section, why Pershings were such a big deal.
My remaining comment is in regards to towed anti-tank guns. The article states the Germans converted as quick as possible to SP-AT guns, but on the whole they used towed weapon systems due to a lack of motorization and mechanization throughout their armed forces. So the wrong message is being delivered. Knowing that there is an organizational difference between British and AmericN units, however British towed anti-tank crews did not seem to comd off that bad in encounters with German attacks; so another point that needs elaborated on, why American AT crews were.
Regards EnigmaMcmxc (talk) 08:55, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Overly critical, in need of balance? 

message: I pretty well completed revising this article, adding references, and adding photos.  I'm nominating it for review as a Good Article.
Billmckern (talk) 16:48, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Good article nomination

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