User talk:Hadady

My minor edits of 13 Jan 2009 better integrate the lead paragraph with text preceding the article, and add a few minor details from the original sources. The designation of the "armored troop carrier battalion" as Pioneers (German combat engineers) comes from two German-language references (http://www.axishistory.com/index.php?id=1292) which are alleged to state that, in 1943, only Pioneer companies of 19th Panzer had halftracks. The detail is significant, given how more heavily armed German combat engineers were, compared to regular troops.

Wayne--Hadady (talk) 18:45, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

My spate of edits on 25 Feb 2008 stem in part from my inexperience with the edit system (this was my first-ever contribution to the encyclopedia, and could have gone smoother). After the first edit, all the edits should have been marked Minor (though some, errantly, were not so marked).

My contribution addresses the page banner call for article improvement by expansion. In this case, I provide more detail on the September 1943 Soviet corps-size airdrop on the Dnepr. For this information, I referenced Glantz (as cited, hardcopy) and Staskov (as cited, web-published copy only).

In the footnote for Staskov, I left in place an existing "see ref..." pointer that may in fact be stale (at quick glance I don't see the relevance, but my glance was, for want of time, only quick).