Talk:Kurt Wintgens

Adding a quote box for a written letter for the Kurt Wintgens Wikipedia article
Dear Fellow Wikipedians:

The PIPE Here...in addition to my existing question at the Heinkel He 277 discussion page, asking about bringing into Wikipedia, a scanned copy (with ONLY the original Heinkel factory-created content in it) of an original Heinkel factory "typenblatt" general arrangement drawing of the He 277 from my main reference book, authored by Manfred Griehl and Joachim Dressel, on the entire He 177 family of Heinkel-built WW II heavy bomber aircraft, I've been wanting to add to the page on Kurt Wintgens, the very first fighter pilot in aviation history to have ever downed an opposing aircraft with a synchronized machine gun, the text of a letter written by Leutnant Wintgens himself to a friend named "Karl", describing that pioneering aerial engagement in his own words, on the day (July 2 1915) following the engagement. The text of the letter is sourced from the very last issue of the "Cross & Cockade USA" WW I aviation enthusiast quarterly journal, published one summer in the mid-1980s.

After I had a software-induced hard disk crash just before Halloween of 2008, which I've only recovered from within the last month's worth of time, I thought I had lost the text of the letter...thankfully, the removal of the troublesome GoBack recovery software from my hard disks allowed me to regain access to the transcription of the Wintgens "victory letter", and I'd really like to get that letter's text placed in a quote box, complete with the usual "justification" (left just/center just/right just/etc.) that would give it the "general" look of the letter's text as depicted in the C&C USA English translation (the original letter that Leutnant Wintgens wrote on July 2 1915 describing the combat's events was, of course, entirely in German).

I have NOT yet found, anywhere in Wikipedia's help pages, anything that could help me format a quote box to have left/center/right "justification" of text in any manner...is such text "locational justification" possible in a quote box, and IF it is, just how do I go about doing it???

Hope to get an answer soon for this challenge in adding to the documentation on the very first aerial victory with a synchronized MG...

The PIPE (talk) 22:23, 7 August 2009 (UTC)