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Hello,
Earlier, I added the Free French flag icon to the infobox which was reverted by Jim Sweeney on the grounds that the French participation was "not justifiable". I believe that the French participation is easily important enough to merit its inclusion in the infobox in some form. I believe that the current inclusion of Britain alone is actually misleading in this context. Partly, the Free French element has a fairly high profile after its inclusion in films (like The Longest Day) and in French popular culture, but also that No. 4 Commando is much more important (as a whole) to the history of France in WWII than it is to the history of Britain in the same conflict... Brigade Piron ( talk) 15:34, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
United Kingdom
also: [or words to that effect]
Free French
The last paragraph doesn't seem to jive from my understanding. The 'captured its objectives' seems to refer to the gun battery and casino in Ouisterham (and other strong points). To march from this point inland to Bénouville is 3 to 3.5 miles according to GoogleMaps but the paragraph says it was 6mi .... where did the other 3 miles go? Did they get blown away in the bombing of Caen soon after? The march inland to the Orne bridges was not uneventful -- snipers, or even just one sniper, is an event. Arriving in Bénouville was 'eventful', crossing the bridges was 'eventful' (they lost about 12 guys to snipers crossing one of the bridges). No mention of Millin piping or Lovat connecting with the Airborne officers (skipped) ... but instead there is comment about supply gliders arriving somewhere to their rear. There are things here that don't seem accurate. ManOnPipes ( talk) 04:40, 2 November 2019 (UTC)
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![]() | A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the "
Did you know?" column on
September 2, 2010. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that in November 1944,
No. 4 Commando captured 1,200 German prisoners during the
Battle of the Scheldt? | ||||||||||||
Current status: Good article |
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Hello,
Earlier, I added the Free French flag icon to the infobox which was reverted by Jim Sweeney on the grounds that the French participation was "not justifiable". I believe that the French participation is easily important enough to merit its inclusion in the infobox in some form. I believe that the current inclusion of Britain alone is actually misleading in this context. Partly, the Free French element has a fairly high profile after its inclusion in films (like The Longest Day) and in French popular culture, but also that No. 4 Commando is much more important (as a whole) to the history of France in WWII than it is to the history of Britain in the same conflict... Brigade Piron ( talk) 15:34, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
United Kingdom
also: [or words to that effect]
Free French
The last paragraph doesn't seem to jive from my understanding. The 'captured its objectives' seems to refer to the gun battery and casino in Ouisterham (and other strong points). To march from this point inland to Bénouville is 3 to 3.5 miles according to GoogleMaps but the paragraph says it was 6mi .... where did the other 3 miles go? Did they get blown away in the bombing of Caen soon after? The march inland to the Orne bridges was not uneventful -- snipers, or even just one sniper, is an event. Arriving in Bénouville was 'eventful', crossing the bridges was 'eventful' (they lost about 12 guys to snipers crossing one of the bridges). No mention of Millin piping or Lovat connecting with the Airborne officers (skipped) ... but instead there is comment about supply gliders arriving somewhere to their rear. There are things here that don't seem accurate. ManOnPipes ( talk) 04:40, 2 November 2019 (UTC)