Template:Did you know nominations/September 2012 Camp Bastion raid

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... that the September 2012 Camp Bastion raid was the second time after the Battle of Wake Island that Marine Attack Squadron 211 had its planes destroyed in a sneak attack and its pilots fought as infantry?

Created/expanded by Palm dogg (talk), Cla68 (talk). Self nom at 19:04, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

Date, size are fine but the article only states that it was the second time that the pilots fought as infantry, not that it was the second time the planes were destroyed.--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 20:45, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
- Should be fixed now. Palm_Dogg (talk) 17:30, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

ALT 1: that the September 2012 Camp Bastion raid was described as the worst loss of U.S. airpower in a single incident since the Vietnam War.
All the more remarkable as it was so few Afghans... but more ALT hooks are possible. Geoffjw1978 ^T^L^C 21:53, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

I've done some checks and the refs and notability are fine. Almost there.

So this is now just waiting for QPQ, some DyK help either from Cla68 or Palm dogg. (Note: Cla68 has shown some good efforts engaging with the ongoing Gibraltarpedia debacle).