Template:Did you know nominations/Reba Z. Whittle

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The result was: rejected by SL93 (talk) 02:17, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
Nominator last edited on May 21, but there is no response to issue that was raised on April 27.

Reba Z. Whittle

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... that Lt. Reba Z. Whittle of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps was the only American female prisoner of war captured by the Germans during World War II?

Created/expanded by Dawkeye (talk). Self nom at 22:09, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

The claim in question is inferred from a statement quoted in the primary source for the article. However, I am not utterly convinced that the person quoted meant to imply that the nurses in the Pacific theater, along with the subject of the article, were the only female POWs, and that therefore there was no other such woman held by the Germans, because it's not clear from the context that those are the only women of whom he spoke. The immediate source does not make this claim explicitly. Mangoe (talk) 19:20, 27 April 2012 (UTC)