Talk:Claire Phillips

Stubs
Is it really necessary to have that many stubs???? Dysepsion 07:32, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Biography
Information from her granddaughter (who was adopted out shortly after birth and researching her ancestry) states that the daughter, Dian (or Diane), was not adopted but a product of her first marriage. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.113.160.172 (talk) 06:39, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Cleanup - August 2007

 * Article needs cleanup. Some rewriting, longer intro, possibly an infobox and if possible a photo. I will come back to this. --Lendorien 20:06, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Rewrote the article in a better, more encyclopedic tone as well as providing more accurate details. Needs to be better sourced. Also is something of an orphan. --Lendorien 08:50, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Presidential Medal of Freedom
In 1951, upon the recommendation of General Douglas MacArthur, she became the first woman to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. That conflicts with the article on Margaret Utinsky, which says she was awarded the medal in 1946. Shawn D. (talk) 13:46, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Fixed issue. --Lendorien (talk) 18:12, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

Partial Rewrite 9 April 2015
I partially rewrote this article based on several articles I found on the internet that included a lot more information that I found to belong here. First I rewrote and refined the introductory paragraph beginning with her birth name. Next I broke the biography up into sections and finally added a section on her early life and her life prior to the war. I know my changes are not perfect. Two of my sources contradict each other slightly and hopefully someone will come along with some more definitive facts to perfect the article with.

Also, I made an error along the way that I have not been able to figure out what I did wrong. Some how I screwed up one of the source citations and I am hoping someone with better technical expertise will fix if for me.

I made these changes hoping to fill a gap until a real historian will come along and do a better job. This war hero deserves a fully realized article. I just watched the movie on TCM this evening and as I often do, I looked it up on Wikipedia and was disappointed at the lack of biographical detail in this article. She was involved in a lot of interesting activities post war and if no one picks up the gauntlet I may add more material there as well. As for photos, I have seen two that are floating around the internet, one shows her around the war years and another shows her receiving her medal. These should be in the public domain by now but I can't figure out for sure if this is true. Anyone? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.144.213.97 (talk) 03:50, 10 April 2015 (UTC)


 * I just noticed that for some reason in the first paragraph the links to the movie and book don't work while articles with those exact titles do exist on Wikipedia. Not sure what I did wrong.  I thought brackets automatically linked if an article existed with the precise same name.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.144.213.97 (talk) 04:05, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

Contradictory information concerning the death of John Phillips during the Japanese invasion of the Philippines
The article on Claire Phillips contains the following statement:

"During the invasion of the Philippines by Japanese forces in 1941 and early 1942, her husband was captured. He later died in a prison camp, though she did not learn this until some time later."

This statement contradicts the scene in "I Was An American Spy," where Claire Phillips watches in horror as her husband is mowed down by Japanese machine gun fire during the Bataan Death March. Claire Phillips was a technical adviser when this movie was filmed in 1951. She was the one person who knew which version of her husband's death was correct. Either this article gives false information on death of John Phillips, or the motion picture altered the truth of Phillips' death during the war. If this article gives the correct information, I don't understand why Claire Phillips didn't correct the false information during the filming of the motion picture. For your information, I watched this movie on television a few years after it was released in 1951; that was a long time ago. "I Was an American Spy" is a powerful drama with some chilling scenes.

Anthony22 (talk) 15:29, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

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 * https://oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/phillips_claire/#.WUFcBBiZNo4 --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 15:54, 14 June 2017 (UTC)