Template:Did you know nominations/Operation Barras
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The result was: promoted by Allen3 talk 09:32, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
Operation Barras
[edit]- ... that, during preparations for Operation Barras, soldiers trained on a scale model of the village they were to assault?
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/J. Edgar Hoover Building
- Comment: Significantly more than fivefold expanded. The hook fact is in the Operation Barras#Deployment to Sierra Leone section (second paragraph) in case it's not easy to find.
Created/expanded by HJ Mitchell (talk). Self nom at 20:59, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
Expansion more than 5-fold; hook is short enough and interesting; article is well-written, well-cited, and looks comprehensive. I couldn't find the hook fact in the first cited source (Connaughton 2001), so will have to AGF it's in the second (Fowler 2010).Sasata (talk) 08:42, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks. Just for the record, Connaughton says "Precise details of the layout of the enemy camp [...] enabled models and a replica camp to be made up, which greatly assisted the briefing and training [...]". HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 16:20, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
