Template:Did you know nominations/Clairmarais aerodrome

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:38, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

Clairmarais aerodrome[edit]

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Clairmarais aerodrome in July 1918

... that the First World War Clairmarais aerodrome in France was utilised by the Luftwaffe from 1940 but proved to be unusable in wet weather? Source: "Sep 40: assigned airfield code number 383. Came under Koflug 8/III" "level grass surface that was unserviceable in wet weather" Luftwaffe Airfields 1935-45 France (with Corsica and Channel Islands) by Henry L. deZeng IV page 334-335
- ALT1:... that a corrugated iron hanger at Clairmarais aerodrome was disguised as a church? Source: "had a small corrugated iron hangar disguised as a church" Luftwaffe Airfields 1935-45 France (with Corsica and Channel Islands) by Henry L. deZeng IV page 335
- ALT2:... that First World War Australian flying ace Harry Cobby made almost half of his kills whilst based at Clairmarais aerodrome (pictured)?

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Rūdolfs Pērle
Comment: picture for WWI hook only

Created by Pigsonthewing (talk) and Alansplodge (talk). Nominated by Dumelow (talk) at 21:38, 12 November 2018 (UTC).

It would be better to use a hook relating to the aerodrome's use in WWI, than WWII. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:34, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

Hi Andy. Happy to go with a WWI hook, though I couldn't find anything much more exciting than the one hook I proposed above. Perhaps you have a better suggestion? - Dumelow (talk) 23:08, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

New enough, long enough, adequately sourced. Stable, neutral, images is in the public domain although somewhat blurry at a small resolution. QPQ provided and verified. Approving ALT0 and 'ALT1 as being more interesting to a broad audience. And contrary to what the nominator said, I think the picture could work for ALT0 as well. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 00:47, 23 November 2018 (UTC)