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FBI film footage taken of Colepaugh and Gimpel is contained in an (unfortunately licensed) old newsreel from 1945. A cool bit of WP:OR: at timestamp 01:42:39 in the newsreel the radio they were captured with is visible. It is an exact match for a 1935 General Electric model A-83, seen here, which corroborates their story of buying a used broadcast radio with a shortwave band on it. - LuckyLouie ( talk) 17:19, 21 July 2017 (UTC)
If Colepaugh betrayed Gimpel, then why did he serve the longer sentence? That seems odd, would be good if the article explained that.. Mujinga ( talk) 03:20, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
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in March 2015, with the edit summary it's either "Unternehmen Elster" or "Operation Magpie".
On the contrary, the format "Operation Elster" is entirely normal in English: it is common for writers to refer to foreign military operations by their native name while using the English term 'Operation' (eg.
Operation Bodenplatte,
Operation Gladio,
Operation Ten-Go) or by a translation of the non-English name (eg.
Operation Sealion). It is not at all usual to use a non-English term (like unternehmen) when there is a perfectly good equivalent in English, and in this case it is contrary to our requirement to
use English and is not
consistent with
other similar articles.
So it has been moved back (with my thanks) via the
WP:RM#Undiscussed Moves facility.
Xyl 54 (
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13:59, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
This has been reverted more than once.
If you wish to add this then add an apprpropriate citation with the additional information and all will be well. Lukewarmbeer ( talk) 12:37, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
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FBI film footage taken of Colepaugh and Gimpel is contained in an (unfortunately licensed) old newsreel from 1945. A cool bit of WP:OR: at timestamp 01:42:39 in the newsreel the radio they were captured with is visible. It is an exact match for a 1935 General Electric model A-83, seen here, which corroborates their story of buying a used broadcast radio with a shortwave band on it. - LuckyLouie ( talk) 17:19, 21 July 2017 (UTC)
If Colepaugh betrayed Gimpel, then why did he serve the longer sentence? That seems odd, would be good if the article explained that.. Mujinga ( talk) 03:20, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
This page was moved without discussion
in March 2015, with the edit summary it's either "Unternehmen Elster" or "Operation Magpie".
On the contrary, the format "Operation Elster" is entirely normal in English: it is common for writers to refer to foreign military operations by their native name while using the English term 'Operation' (eg.
Operation Bodenplatte,
Operation Gladio,
Operation Ten-Go) or by a translation of the non-English name (eg.
Operation Sealion). It is not at all usual to use a non-English term (like unternehmen) when there is a perfectly good equivalent in English, and in this case it is contrary to our requirement to
use English and is not
consistent with
other similar articles.
So it has been moved back (with my thanks) via the
WP:RM#Undiscussed Moves facility.
Xyl 54 (
talk)
13:59, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
This has been reverted more than once.
If you wish to add this then add an apprpropriate citation with the additional information and all will be well. Lukewarmbeer ( talk) 12:37, 2 March 2023 (UTC)