Template:Did you know nominations/Operation Pigfat
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The result was: promoted by Allen3 talk 13:27, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
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Operation Pigfat
[edit]- ... that General Vang Pao's belief in an ancestral dream prevented Operation Pigfat guerrillas from landing on top of enemy troops?
- ALT1:. . . that General Vang Pao's dream of enemy troops hidden on the Operation Pigfat landing zone was verified by
prisonerrefugee interrogation? - Reviewed:
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- Inadvertent reuse of QPQ. New valid QPQ in progress.Georgejdorner (talk) 18:26, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
- I submit Template:Did you know nominations/Shen Yongping for the new QPQ.Georgejdorner (talk) 20:56, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
- Comment: By 1968, the long-running secretive Laotian Civil War had been subordinated to the larger adjacent Vietnam War. Nevertheless, the Vietnamese communists established the largest concentration of their troops outside their borders in northeastern Laos. General Vang Pao attempted a preemptive spoiling attack against the communists, using his Hmong guerrillas as light infantry. The result was disastrous, despite his saving dream of lurking hazards.
- ALT1:. . . that General Vang Pao's dream of enemy troops hidden on the Operation Pigfat landing zone was verified by
Created by Georgejdorner (talk). Self nominated at 19:03, 20 December 2014 (UTC).
- Comment:The reviewed article already linked to Template:Did you know nominations/Phisit Intharathat. --Gfosankar (talk) 05:01, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
- I am not quite sure what you want here. Do I owe a QPQ?Georgejdorner (talk) 17:58, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
- Never mind. Figured it out.Georgejdorner (talk) 18:26, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
Full review needed now that new QPQ has been supplied. BlueMoonset (talk) 22:24, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
Hook, date, and length verified. Offline source OK. A very interesting article with an attention-grabbing hook. However, I believe ALT1 is the clearer of the 2 hooks. Astro interest (talk) 23:19, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
- Yep. "Ancestral dream" is something they had, not something he had about them. — LlywelynII 05:09, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
