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The illustrations are well-chosen and -placed but most really should be increased in size so they don't need to be opened in their own window to see reasonable detail; this is quite permissible now. The worst offender is the two Spits taking off; I couldn't even make out the second one for a while
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By late 1944 RAAF fighter squadrons in SWPA were complaining of under-employment. For this reason, No. 451 Squadron was sent from France to the UK instead of being returned to
Australia in November 1944. (Herington, p. 257) Shipping, however, was in short supply, and the queue of men and equipment
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The amount of people who wouldn't know even a little background would be few, but I think it should be pointed out in the main body, teh outbreak of WWII and the
Japanese advance through SE Asia in 1941, else someone who has just walked out of a cave wouldn't know the reason for Australia arming
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Why wasn't a more serious effort made to move the men forward in 44/45? The article touches on this, but doesn't exactly state what the reason was for the squad no being moved to a more active area, and I'm curious to know if anything has come up over the years that would shed some light on that
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Australia was being regularly bombed and the Australian Government was concerned that it didn't have sufficient air defence units. I need to add coverage of the war to this point as suggested by Yellow Monkey below - I'll add a note here when that's done
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OK, I've added a couple of paras summarising the air war over northern
Australia prior to No. 1 Wing's arrival in the area; I don't want go into too much detail, however, as this is an article on the unit rather than the campaign. Is this level of coverage adequate?
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I can't find any record of No. 1 Wing being reformed in the 1920s - while both
Parnell and Lynch and Gillison state that it was proposed to form this unit, there are no subsequent references to it (or any other wings) in these books or Chris Coulthord-Clark's book
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My RAAF Richmond history states that No. 1 Wing departed for Darwin from 31 Dec 42 to 25 Jan 43. Given your concern expressed elsewhere of possible over-reliance on
Alexander, you could substitute this citation for one of hers. Page ref is p.122, book details are
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The fighter squadrons' air parties arrived at Darwin later that month; on 17 January No. 54 Squadron's air party reached RAAF Station Darwin and No. 452 Squadron's arrived at
Batchelor Airfield and No. 457 Squadron began operating from Livingstone Airfield on 31
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Do any of the aerial battles mentioned in the article have names or articles here? If they have articles here I would suggest linking to them, if they have names I would suggest a limited number of red links for the significant battles be placed in the article.
730:-- Already impressed by the level of detail in this article given the sad lack of any dedicated history of this or any other RAAF wing. Performed my usual light copyedit and made a couple of responses to others' comments above, here are some more:
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Was there some significance in the code names selected by the
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No, there aren't any at present. I'm planning an article on the 2 May battle, and have added a red link to this, but I'm not sure if any of the others are particularly notable (the 20 June one might be, but I don't think it warrants a red
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I would like to nominate this article on one of the Royal
Australia Air Force's best known units of World War II for A class status. I think that I've consulted all the in-depth references on this subject and would like to acknowledge
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For that matter, why the late start? In 1942 WWII was well underway; its seems to me that the request for planes could have come a little earlier. Was there a sudden pressing need for the planes in 1942 as opposed to 1941 or 1940?
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No. 1 Wing traces its trace its lineage back to No. 1 Wing AFC, which served in the UK in 1917-18. In those days it comprised Nos 5,6,7 and 8 Squadrons, in the training role. It was reformed at
Laverton in 1922 with Nos 1 and 2
468:? By all means include his title here but the link probably isn't necessary. Linking a rank to a person with an article may also not be so necessary. Likewise separate links of a state following a city, e.g.
240:, including in listings of the RAAF's order of battle - these show the flying squadrons as being under the command of air stations rather than wings. Do you have any references to the unit's establishment?
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I've never heard of such a formation at that time either. In any case, unlikely it was established at Laverton in 1922 - the base didn't open until 1925 (same year as Richmond)... Cheers,
422:" What does H.V. stand for? Was that a part of the guys name or was it like a title (IE a rank for knight or something of that nature). Also, see if we have a link for air vice Marshall.
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I'd be happy to add a few more details from Roylance (like the number of accidents they had training at Richmond) and substitute more citations from his book for Alexander, if you like.
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More details would be great, but could you please leave the Alexander reference where the information is the same? - her book is more recent and was produced independently of the RAAF
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Which commonwealth units were in Egypt? The article says only that spitfires were sent there as reinforcements, but makes no mention as to the units they were reinforcing.
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All done - the images have been increased to 250px, the typo fixed (it was mine) and separations between the references removed. Thanks for the RAAF Base Richmond refs.
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It appears to have been due to concerns over a renewed offensive against Darwin in 1944 and lethargy in 1945. I'll see if I can find some references for 1944.
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Re. possible overlinking, I'm starting to drop links that automatically go with other links and you might consider the same. For instance, do we need to link
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great comments and edits. I'm interested in eventually nominating this article for FA status, so any suggestions for improvements would be fantastic. Thanks,
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The references I consulted said that the addition of an air filter to the nose of the aircraft was the main difference - I've added this to the article.
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awaiting shipment to and from Bougainville became quite long. Under the circumstances it made no sense to ship units that were not urgently required.
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