User talk:Dhanig

East Africa Campaign
Hi. I see that in the section on the invasion of British Somalia you have identified one of the British units as 3/14 Punjab Regt. My source (the Compton McKenzie book which was commissioned by the Historical Section of the War Dept in Delhi) says it was the 3/15 Punjabs (originally the 27th Punjab Infantry). This is slightly obscure but it would be nice to get it right. Do you have any other sources which might confirm the one or the other? Looking at the external links at the bottom of the article, Stone & Stone refers to 3/15 but Battlefront refers to 3/25 (!I think we can discount this - Indian regiments of the time only went up to number 20) Regards Stephen Kirragetalk - contribs 13:17, 3 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Hi. My source, being an Indian official history has vitually nothing on the southern campaign (no Indian involvement) so I'm delighted that you are able to expand it. Cunningham had a relatively large force but it wouldn't suprise me if they fought in smaller units than divisions. Stephen Kirragetalk - contribs 11:20, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Dick Rutan
Dick Rutan was not a POW; he was rescued after his aircraft was shot down. See Rick Newman and Don Shepperd, Bury Us Upside Down: The Misty Pilots and the Secret Battle for the Ho Chi Minh Trail (New York: Presidio, 2007), pp. 362-365.

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