Talk:Victor Chapman

A fact from Victor Chapman appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 4 April 2005. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that pilot Victor Chapman died after being attacked by German enemies while on flight to carry oranges to a wounded friend?

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Medals[edit]

]Can we get more details on his medals? RJFJR (talk) 16:21, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Unclear[edit]

In the second line, it says that he and his father moved to France when he was six, but it doesn't say where they were to begin with. I am guessing that they were in the US, but there is no way for me to tell for sure. Mynameisnotpj (talk) 02:53, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It says he was born in New York but it would be nice to get some clarity about where they were moving from. Cleanelephant (talk) 22:30, 3 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Death[edit]

Did he die on 23 September 1916 or 23 June 1916? Sources differ. Drutt (talk) 22:52, 14 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oranges story[edit]

It's a nice fairy tale, but come on, ever heard of orange trees in Northern Europe? I mean, apples perhaps, maybe pears or plums, but orange trees? The incident happened near to where the Battle of the Bulge happened during WWII. Can you imagine orange trees surviving in the winter there? We'd need a source for that. //Halibu tt 15:55, 1 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox[edit]

I added an infobox but had trouble getting the picture in there, I think because it is so big. If anyone wants to add to it that would probably be nice for the page. Cleanelephant (talk) 22:26, 3 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]