Template:Did you know nominations/Frank Headlam
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The result was: promoted by Allen3 talk 10:06, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
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Frank Headlam[edit]
- ... that after evacuating his base in Dutch Timor following bombing by the Japanese in 1942, Frank Headlam (pictured) returned to Darwin, Australia, the same day it suffered its first air raid?
- Reviewed: Queen's Sophia Bible
Created by Ian Rose (talk). Self nominated at 10:43, 26 August 2013 (UTC).
Length fine, new today, picture is ok, yes he did return on the day of the raid (OK the date is offline so AGF but its available elsewhere), no obvious copy vio, very detailed article. Fine. I have an alt below which represents the same hook in less words and a bit? more tabloid. Victuallers (talk) 18:07, 26 August 2013 (UTC)- (alt) ... that after being bombed by the Japanese in Dutch Timor, Frank Headlam (pictured) returned just in time to see the "Australian Pearl Harbour"?
- Tks very much for review. The alt is certainly snappy, my only concern being that Darwin/Pearl isn't the most valid comparison, since the former was hardly a sneak attack, and I don't make that comparison in the Headlam article (also I think we'd still have to spell Harbour the US way!)... Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 23:01, 26 August 2013 (UTC)
