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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 Yoninah (talk) 09:58, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

GB-1

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GB-1 glide bomb
GB-1 glide bomb
  • ... that in an attack on Cologne on 28 May 1944, German gunners thought crashing GB-1 (pictured) glide bombs were aircraft they were shooting down?
    Source: "Astonished German antiaircraft gunners...actually believed they saw American mini-bombers plunging from the sky in every direction...flak gunners put in claims for shooting down more than 90 [B-17]s" [1]

Created by The Bushranger (talk). Self-nominated at 10:52, 14 December 2017 (UTC).

  • New, in time, long enough, sourced, inline/offline citation accepted AGF, no apparent copyvios, QPQ done, photo is in PD. --Usernameunique (talk) 12:16, 14 December 2017 (UTC)