User talk:Auntieruth55/Shaping the Modern World Class Project

I'll help if you need it
I'm a veteran editor and I know my way around Wikipedia. At the moment I'm also the lead coordinator for the milhist project. If you need help your welcome to leave me a message, and I will make an effort to assist anyway I can :)

As far as articles go: anything you want to add would be welcome. In the long run this benefits us since it will provide new material for the project that we can use and maintain. If you'd like like a little a challenge though then anything listed at Articles requested for more than a year that strikes anyone's fancy for creation would be greatly appreciated, as we've been waiting for more than a year for said articles. Additionally, at milhist, anything related to WWI would be useful as well since the 100-year anniversary of the war is coming up and we are trying to get WWI related pages up to snuff for main page appearances. TomStar81 (Talk) 01:12, 18 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Same here; available for mentoring, article editing advice and assessment :) EyeSerene talk 09:50, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Same as above. NativeForeigner Talk/Contribs/Vote! 00:57, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Article suggestions
Here are some article suggestions for your class—articles that nobody has written, yet. Hope your students take a few! Binksternet (talk) 02:37, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Harry A. Halverson – WWII U.S. bomber leader
 * Frederick von Harten Kimble – Caucasian commander of the African-American Tuskegee Airmen
 * Fred Kimble – inventor of the choke-bore shotgun in 1868; (article on Choke bore needs major work as well)
 * Lawson H. M. Sanderson – USMC inventor of dive bombing 1919
 * Hezekiah "Hez" McClellan – US Air Corps pioneer, died 1936, McClellan AFB named for him
 * Thomas Caldwell Turner – pioneer USMC airman, colonel, died in Haiti in 1931, hit by a propeller
 * Frederick I. Eglin – US Air Corps pioneer, Eglin Air Force Base named after him
 * Idwal H. Edwards – long-lived USAF pioneer, commanded airfields, air fleets and the Air University
 * Lucas Victor Beau – USAF pioneer, led Civil Air Patrol
 * Claude A. Larkin – commander of 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, wounded at Pearl Harbor, nickname "Sheriff"
 * Vincent J. Meloy – US airman, led Caribbean defense during WWII, and Mediterranean combat group
 * Walter R. Peck – US airman, commanded 17th Bombardment Group, 96th Combat Bomber Wing
 * Carlyle H. Wash (general) – commanded 5th Bombardment Squadron, killed 1943 in transport crash
 * Caleb V. Haynes – highly decorated airman including Mackay Trophy, WWI & WWII, served in India and China, commanded First Bomber Command & Third Bomber Command
 * Newton Longfellow – pre-war fighter commander, WWII bomber leader
 * Ralph A. Snavely – WWII night fighters, saved his wife's life in 1946 after air crash in Alps
 * Orvil Anderson – highly decorated air pioneer, altitude record of 72,395 feet in the 1930s, commanded Air War College
 * Alva Harvey – long-lived air pioneer, first circumnavigation flight
 * Delmar H. Dunton – USAF major general, recon
 * Mervin E. Gross – USAF brigadier general, first commander of Air Force Institute of Technology
 * Reuben C. Moffat – air pioneer, fighter leader during WWII
 * Townsend E. Griffiss – first US airman to die in the European Theater during WWII
 * Oakley G. Kelly – pioneer airman, transcontinental flight in 1923, Mackay Trophy
 * James A. Mollison (general) – executive officer at Hickam Field during Pearl Harbor attack
 * Ernest K. Warburton – aeronautics engineer and test pilot, highly decorated
 * Walter E. Todd – bomber pilot, military attache to Russia, commander Western Air Defense Force, Air University