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It's written in American English about an American operation. Why doesn't the whole article just use US units? If no one else does it I'm going to update the page for consistency. ThePooprman ( talk) 16:41, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
In non-scientific articles relating to the United States, the primary units are US customary, e.g. 97 pounds (44 kg).Lyndaship ( talk) 17:46, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
As this is a military article, and even the US military uses metric, there doesn't seem to be a compelling reason to use US customary units (at least not solely or primarily). The metric units in the article can also be converted to US, for any American, Liberian or Burmese readers that may require it. - wolf 23:05, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
The maps on the right don't add much to one another. The same information could be presented just as clearly in a single picture; indeed I don't really see what the images add to the original map except maybe for a bit of not particularly sorely needed colour. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.61.180.106 ( talk) 21:50, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
There should be a small section about this unit http://www.therafatomahabeach.com/?page_id=746
21 Base Defence Sector landed on D-day along with the Americans. It was a unit that was meant to co-ordinate air defence against expected counter-attacks by the Luftwaffe
Montalban ( talk) 15:11, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
After I saw an article about Omaha, I searched about "Rocket Launcher Site" but when I searched I found NASA's Rocket, So Please can anyone tell me? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.125.4.178 ( talk) 06:01, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
From a featured article perspective, it's a bit concerning that large swathes of the article are primarily sourced to a single 1945 US Army monograph. Given the vast amounts of academic literature on the D-Day landings, I don't think that WP:FACR #1c is met. A featured article review may be necessary here. Hog Farm Talk 17:03, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
hello D Day experts: I dug up this video out of the National Archives while researching John Ford's D-Day footage. You can see guys running up a beach at the 0:39 mark and lots of ship cannon smoke stuff toward the end.
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Do you guys this think is Omaha or Utah or none of the above or impossible to to tell or other? Please advise. Thank you in advance. jengod ( talk) 17:43, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
Article had no mention of the German Maisy battery (until I add to See also) - It was an assigned objective of the Rangers so why not mention it eg in the German defences inland section ? - Rod57 ( talk) 10:26, 31 August 2023 (UTC)
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It's written in American English about an American operation. Why doesn't the whole article just use US units? If no one else does it I'm going to update the page for consistency. ThePooprman ( talk) 16:41, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
In non-scientific articles relating to the United States, the primary units are US customary, e.g. 97 pounds (44 kg).Lyndaship ( talk) 17:46, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
As this is a military article, and even the US military uses metric, there doesn't seem to be a compelling reason to use US customary units (at least not solely or primarily). The metric units in the article can also be converted to US, for any American, Liberian or Burmese readers that may require it. - wolf 23:05, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
The maps on the right don't add much to one another. The same information could be presented just as clearly in a single picture; indeed I don't really see what the images add to the original map except maybe for a bit of not particularly sorely needed colour. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.61.180.106 ( talk) 21:50, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
There should be a small section about this unit http://www.therafatomahabeach.com/?page_id=746
21 Base Defence Sector landed on D-day along with the Americans. It was a unit that was meant to co-ordinate air defence against expected counter-attacks by the Luftwaffe
Montalban ( talk) 15:11, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
After I saw an article about Omaha, I searched about "Rocket Launcher Site" but when I searched I found NASA's Rocket, So Please can anyone tell me? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.125.4.178 ( talk) 06:01, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
From a featured article perspective, it's a bit concerning that large swathes of the article are primarily sourced to a single 1945 US Army monograph. Given the vast amounts of academic literature on the D-Day landings, I don't think that WP:FACR #1c is met. A featured article review may be necessary here. Hog Farm Talk 17:03, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
hello D Day experts: I dug up this video out of the National Archives while researching John Ford's D-Day footage. You can see guys running up a beach at the 0:39 mark and lots of ship cannon smoke stuff toward the end.
Commons:File:428-npc-15707.ogg
Do you guys this think is Omaha or Utah or none of the above or impossible to to tell or other? Please advise. Thank you in advance. jengod ( talk) 17:43, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
Article had no mention of the German Maisy battery (until I add to See also) - It was an assigned objective of the Rangers so why not mention it eg in the German defences inland section ? - Rod57 ( talk) 10:26, 31 August 2023 (UTC)