Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/December 2014/Articles


 * Ford Island (TParis) : Perhaps best known for being at the centre of the 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor, Ford Island has housed a remarkably wide range of military installations and moorings for naval ships; most notably the ill-fated battleship row. It continues to host several US Navy installations. This is nominator TParis' first FA, and we congratulate him on his achievement!


 * William Beach Thomas (Sitush) : Thomas was a correspondent in World War I who, in nominator Sitush's words, "gained both fame and infamy for his efforts and was also prominent as a writer of articles and books concerning rural affairs and nature". He may have been the inspiration for William Boot in Evelyn Waugh's Scoop.


 * Garnet Malley (Ian Rose) : Another in Ian's series on Australian World War I fighter aces, this article covers the rather exotic life of an artilleryman who joined the Australian Flying Corps and shot down six German aircraft. He later joined the Royal Australian Air Force, and was an advisor to Chiang Kai-shek's government in China in the late 1930s. After serving in intelligence roles in Australia during World War II, he left the military to run a coconut plantation in Fiji.


 * No. 1 Squadron RAAF (Ian Rose) : This articles focuses on the RAAF's "Fighting First", active for most of the 98 years since its formation during World War I. Between the time Ian nominated the article for FAC and its promotion, a detachment of the squadron's Super Hornet strike fighters deployed to the Middle East to take part in the military intervention against ISIL.


 * SMS Kaiser Barbarossa (Parsecboy) : The latest in Parsecboy's series of articles on German battleship covers a pre-dreadnought which entered service in 1901 and did not see combat in World War I. She was used as a torpedo target for several months during the war, and served as a prison ship for the remainder of the conflict.


 * No. 91 Wing RAAF (Ian Rose) : This article covers the unusual career of the Royal Australian Air Force wing established to command RAAF units which took part in the Korean War. In Ian's words, the wing administered a "mixed bag of aircraft", which operated from both Korea and Japan, as well as several support units.


 * Trinity (nuclear test) (Hawkeye7) : The world's first explosion of a nuclear weapon should need little introduction to most members of this project, and paved the way for the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki later in 1945. Hawkeye is aiming to develop this article to featured status in time for the 70th anniversary of the test on 16 July 2015.


 * Arthur Compton (Hawkeye7) : Compton was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 and was a key figure in the Manhattan Project during World War II. This article forms part of Hawkeye's long-running series of biographies of the "mad scientists" (in his words) who were involved in the development of nuclear weapons.


 * German–Yugoslav Partisan negotiations (Peacemaker67) : This article covers the little-remembered and controversial negotiations which took place between German forces and partisans in Yugoslavia in March 1943. While little came of the negotiations, they provided the partisans with an opportunity to redeploy their forces.


 * No. 77 Squadron RAAF (Ian Rose) : Ian's second appearance in this month list is for an article covering one of the Royal Australian Air Force's premier fighter squadrons. No. 77 Squadron saw extensive combat in World War II and the Korean War, and remains active with F/A-18 Hornet fighters.