Template:Did you know nominations/John Challens

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 10:51, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

John Challens

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• ... that British scientist John Challens received the American Medal of Freedom for his work on the V-1 flying bomb and the V-2 rocket? Source: "On the defeat of Germany he was one of a team sent there to investigate the V1 and V2 programmes and this expertise quickly took him to the United States, where he served in the British scientific mission for a year and was rewarded with the American Medal of Freedom."[1]

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Created by Hawkeye7 (talk). Self-nominated at 07:48, 15 January 2017 (UTC).

• New enough, long enough, QPQ done, hook fine. Coretheapple (talk) 15:26, 18 January 2017 (UTC)