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ALT1: ... that due to shortages, American supply in the Siegfried Line campaign made use of thousands of rounds of captured ammunition? Source: "You are strongly encouraged to quote the source text supporting each hook" (and [link] the source, or cite it briefly without using citation templates)
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Hawkeye7, review follows: article moved to mainspace on 3 August; is of good length, well written and cited inline throughout to reliable sources; I found no issue with overly close paraphrasing in a random spotcheck on citations; hook is interesting, mentioned in the article and checks out to the source cited; you might considered omitting the first "ammunition" to avoid repetition; a QPQ has been carried out. Looks good to me -
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05:52, 6 August 2021 (UTC)reply
" met with Major General Lucius D. Clay at ASF headquarters." - ASF needs glossed as well (it was explained in the transport article; I imagine that it was hard to keep track of what was linked in the individual articles)
"he recommended that clothing for the Ninth Army in Brittany and the Communications Zone troops be brought in through the minor ports in LSTs" - LST also needs linked/glossed
" the authorized increase for 155 mm howitzer ammunition was particularly large: 11,303,000 rounds per month" - Is this the new authorization figure, or just the increase in authorization figures?
All points addressed. I particularly liked the part about Thanksgiving dinners. In the South West Pacific, the Australian Army's Commander-in-Chief, General Sir Thomas Blamey, ordered that all troops receive a special Christmas dinner for Christmas 1944. "All of them?" said the staff, "Even the patrol officers in remote villages in New Guinea? The commandos behind enemy lines? The radar personnel on tiny islands?" "Especially them" was the reply. The logistical effort was enormous, but the job was done.
Hawkeye7(discuss)05:22, 15 September 2021 (UTC)reply