Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Morotai Mutiny

Morotai Mutiny

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The result was: not scheduled by Brianboulton (talk) 19:19, 4 April 2016 (UTC)



The "Morotai Mutiny" was an incident in April 1945 involving members of the Australian First Tactical Air Force based on the island of Morotai, in the Dutch East Indies. Eight senior pilots, including Australia's leading flying ace, Group Captain Clive Caldwell, tendered their resignations to protest what they perceived as the relegation of Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) fighter squadrons to strategically unimportant ground attack missions. A government investigation vindicated the "mutineers", and three high-ranking officers at First Tactical Air Force Headquarters including the commander, Air Commodore Harry Cobby, were relieved of their posts. George Odgers summed up the cause of the incident in the official history of the RAAF in World War II as "the conviction of a group of young leaders that they were engaging in operations that were not militarily justifiable&mdash;a conviction widely shared also by many Australian soldiers and political leaders." Odgers concluded that the ensuing inquiry "made it clear that almost everyone concerned acted from the highest motives, and was convinced that, in the crisis, he acted wisely".
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 * Reasons for nomination: Morotai Mutiny incident was happened in April 1945 before 66 years in the same month
 * Support as nominator. Glowadz (talk) 17:12, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

Oppose as ineligible. , welcome to TFAR. Please note that this article has already been on the main page, back in 2010. The rules to read at the top of the page before adding a nomination are short, and include the rule "The article must not have appeared as TFA before". TFAR very, very rarely repeats itself, and is most unlikely to do so simply for a 66th anniversary. Please don't continue to nominate articles that have already been on the main page (as you have already done with Webley Revolver). You will be better off looking at WP:FANMP if you really want to nominate articles that other people have written. BencherliteTalk 18:27, 4 April 2016 (UTC)