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"The British Army called the operation Turkey Buzzard while in the Royal Air Force it was know as Beggar.[1][2]" The two refs cited don't support the claim that the Army called it Turkey Buzzard while the RAF called it Beggar. The cites merely record the names, not who favoured them. (As a side point: in fact the cites offer no supporting evidence that the operations were even the same thing, that Turkey Buzzard was the same operation as Beggar. There seems to be a lot of conflation here.)
The reason I first came to this is because we don't have Turkey Buzzards in the UK, so I thought 'Why on earth would either the British Army or the RAF call an operation after a non-native bird no-one in the UK was likely to have heard of?' It seems to me that the name Turkey Buzzard must have been suggested by someone on the US side who was involved.
As neither of the two names are given priority in the cites quoted, why has the article been named Turkey Buzzard over Beggar? If this was a primarly British operation, I can bet that it would have been called Beggar over Turkey Buzzard, and so that should be the name of the article. 86.152.240.132 ( talk) 20:00, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
Operation Turkey Buzzard has been listed as one of the Warfare good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it. | |||||||||||||
Operation Turkey Buzzard is part of the 1st Airborne Division (United Kingdom) series, a good topic. This is identified as among the best series of articles produced by the Wikipedia community. If you can update or improve it, please do so. | |||||||||||||
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A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the "
Did you know?" column on
July 3, 2011. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that in 1943,
Horsa gliders were towed 3,200 miles (5,100 km) from England to Tunisia during
Operation Turkey Buzzard without knowing whether this would be possible? | |||||||||||||
Current status: Good article |
This article is rated GA-class on Wikipedia's
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"The British Army called the operation Turkey Buzzard while in the Royal Air Force it was know as Beggar.[1][2]" The two refs cited don't support the claim that the Army called it Turkey Buzzard while the RAF called it Beggar. The cites merely record the names, not who favoured them. (As a side point: in fact the cites offer no supporting evidence that the operations were even the same thing, that Turkey Buzzard was the same operation as Beggar. There seems to be a lot of conflation here.)
The reason I first came to this is because we don't have Turkey Buzzards in the UK, so I thought 'Why on earth would either the British Army or the RAF call an operation after a non-native bird no-one in the UK was likely to have heard of?' It seems to me that the name Turkey Buzzard must have been suggested by someone on the US side who was involved.
As neither of the two names are given priority in the cites quoted, why has the article been named Turkey Buzzard over Beggar? If this was a primarly British operation, I can bet that it would have been called Beggar over Turkey Buzzard, and so that should be the name of the article. 86.152.240.132 ( talk) 20:00, 3 July 2011 (UTC)