Talk:51st Defense Battalion

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Did you know... that the 51st Defense Battalion, formed during World War II, was the first African-American unit in the United States Marine Corps?

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Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Desertarun (talk) 08:43, 6 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the 51st Defense Battalion, formed during World War II, was the first African American unit in the United States Marine Corps? Source:Information is taken from the table on page 28 of the following Marine Corps Publication - https://www.marines.mil/Portals/1/Publications/The%20Right%20to%20Fight%20African-American%20Marines%20in%20World%20War%20II%20PCN%2019000313200_2.pdf

Created by Looper5920 (talk). Self-nominated at 15:09, 28 May 2021 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: None required.

Overall:

Good to go Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:18, 1 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]