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The Battle of Panormus was fought on Sicily in 250 BC during the First Punic War between Roman and Carthaginian armies. The Romans were avoiding battle for fear of the Carthaginian war elephants and the Carthaginians devastated the crops of Rome's allies. The Romans withdrew to Panormus where they turned to fight, countering the elephants with a hail of javelins from earthworks dug near the city walls. Infuriated by this the elephants fled through the Carthaginian infantry. The Roman infantry then charged and the Carthaginians broke; the elephants were captured.
A little-known but fascinating part of Yugoslavia's World War II history, the Commissioner Government was a short-lived Serbian collaborationist puppet government established in the German-occupied territory of Serbia from 30 April to 29 August 1941. It was pro-German, anti-Semitic and anti-communist. The "government" was merely an instrument of the German occupation regime, carrying out its orders within the occupied territory without appearing to moderate its policies. The article passed an A-Class Review prior to its FAC nom.
HueSatLum's first FA is a classy biography of James Hagerstrom, a fighter ace in both World War II and the Korean War. He is one of seven American pilots to have achieved ace status in two different wars. During the New Guinea campaign he shot down six Japanese aircraft, including four in one morning. In the Korean War he flew an F-86 Sabre jet in "MiG Alley", the area around the northern border of North Korea with China, claiming 8.5 Chinese, Soviet, and North Korean MiG-15s. HueSatLum took the article through ACR before nominating for FAC.
Jmcc150 and Hawkeye bring us a detailed account of the MAUD Committee, a British scientific working group formed during World War II to determine if an atomic bomb was feasible. The committee examined the theory that a small sphere of pure uranium-235 could have the explosive power of thousands of tons of TNT. Its wide-ranging research culminated in the MAUD Report. The report was made available to the United States, where it energised the American effort, which eventually became the Manhattan Project; it was also handed to the Soviet Union by its atomic spies, helping start the Soviet atomic bomb project. The article passed ACR before gaining FA status.
The latest Nasrid sultan offering from HaEr48 – and there are a lot of them – Nasr was the fourth Nasrid ruler of the Emirate of Granada on the Iberian Peninsula. When he ascended the throne in 1309, Granada faced a three-front war. He made peace with all three enemies over the following year with minimal losses. Despite this, he was unpopular at court due to his excessive concentration on science and astronomy, and his perceived pro-Christian sympathies. A rebellion ended in Nasr's abdication in 1314.
Yet another of Gog the Mild's First Punic War articles... After the Battle of Panormus the Roman army marched on the strongest of the two remaining Carthaginian-held Sicilian cities – Lilybaeum (modern Marsala) – with more than 100,000 men. They made a concerted effort to take it by assault, but were unsuccessful. The siege continued for a further nine years before the war ended in a Roman victory and Carthage evacuated the city by the terms of the Treaty of Lutatius.
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- List of pre-dreadnought battleships of the Royal Navy (Parsecboy)
- Another in Parsecboy's series on capital ships, this is a summary of the many pre-dreadnought battleships operated by the United Kingdom. Fifty-two such ships served with the Royal Navy, many remaining in service after being made obsolete by dreadnoughts. They saw some action in World War I, generally in secondary theatres, and were quickly retired after the war. Parsecboy took the article to ACR before nominating for FL.
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James Irwin salutes the United States flag on the Moon during the Apollo 15 mission (nominated by TheFreeWorld)
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- Partisan Congress riots (Buidhe)
- The Partisan Congress riots were attacks on Jews in Bratislava and other cities and towns in the Slovak part of Czechoslovakia between 1 and 6 August 1946. Nineteen people were injured, four seriously, in Bratislava alone. In the nomination statement Buidhe noted the article is "a bit off the beat but I believe it is in scope as it was primarily caused by former Slovak partisans at an official congress of the Union of Slovak Partisans, an anti-Nazi veterans' association".
- Alfred Worden (Wehwalt)
- This article covers an American fighter pilot and astronaut who died in March. Worden flew fighters in the USAF, became a test pilot and later joined NASA. He was the command module pilot during Apollo 15, during which he orbited the moon 74 times. His air force career was effectively ended by a scandal over carrying postal covers to the moon, and he retired in 1975. He subsequently entered the private sector, unsuccessfully ran for election and undertook charitable works.
- Battle of Hel (Piotrus)
- The Battle of Hel was a World War II engagement fought from 1 September to 2 October 1939 on the Hel Peninsula, off the Baltic Sea coast, between invading German forces and defending Polish units during the German invasion of Poland. From 20 September, Hel was the only substantial pocket of Polish military resistance left in northern Poland. It was also the site of the invasion's only naval surface engagement. The Germans blockaded the defenders of the Hel Peninsula and did not launch major land operations until the end of September 1939; the Poles surrendered due to low supplies and morale.
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