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January 15, 2015	Good article nominee	Listed
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A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on February 13, 2015. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the T28E1 Combination Gun Motor Carriage, a version of the M15 Half-Track (pictured), shot down 39 aircraft during the Battle of Kasserine Pass?
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Tidied punctuation, put dashes in instead of hyphens and rm duplicated links. Not bad at all.Keith-264 (talk) 23:18, 28 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Prose issues

Hi, the following passage indicates a less than formal approach to prose "A trick the troops used in Italy was to fire just the two M2 machine-guns, to make the pilot of the German aircraft (like a Junkers Ju 87) think it was a M13 and goes lower. Then the troops open up with the 37 mm gun which tears the aircraft apart". Perhaps a more appropriate approach might be: "In Italy, crews sometimes used a deception in which they initially engaged attacking aircraft with only the two M2 machine-guns, encouraging the pilot of the attacking aircraft to believe that the vehicle was a M13. The pilot would then consider approaching their target at a lower altitude. This would allow the M15 crew to effectively engage the aircraft with their 37 mm gun at a lower altitude." Or something similar. Regards, Peacemaker67 (crack... thump) 14:20, 30 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

article name

I think the article would be better at M15 Combination Gun Motor Carriage, M15 Half-track might be a reasonable common name (if it is used commonly) , but M15 Half-Track where it is at moment is improperly capitalized. GraemeLeggett (talk) 12:20, 6 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Great minds, Graeme. I just made that point (indirectly) in the GAR. It may be that M15 Half-track is the common name, though. Regards, Peacemaker67 (crack... thump) 12:24, 6 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It seems to me (from a Google Books search) that M15 Halftrack is actually the common name, but there aren't a lot of hits for any of them. The results for M15 Half-track] and M15 Combination Gun Motor Carriage aren't exactly overwhelming. Maybe the hyphen should be dropped? Peacemaker67 (crack... thump) 00:33, 7 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Water-cooled machine guns

I won't change this because whoever wrote it originally may have a better source than I have. But look at http://afvdb.50megs.com/usa/pics/mgmcm15/mgmcm15.html That has a lot of what look like vintage photos and drawings of M15s, and both main versions of the vehicle -- the original, with the machine guns above the cannon, and the later one, with them below -- look to me like they use air-cooled, heavy-barrel machine guns. I don't see water-cooled machine guns anywhere. How sure are we that the water-cooled version of the M2 was ever used on this vehicle? Gms3591 (talk) 06:19, 21 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]