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The Battle(s) of Kansas edit
Started a new page on the battle to get the B-29 into operational service. Feel free to join in.Minorhistorian (talk) 01:42, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
- The title strikes me as a little self-conscious. What would a reader searching for this material enter?--Wetman (talk) 15:54, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
- The page was started on a link from the main B-29 Superfortress page: however, it would be better to give an indication that this page is directly tied in to the B-29 - Perhaps B-29 Battle of Kansas?Minorhistorian (talk) 01:14, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
- Job done, page is now B-29 Superfortress: the Battle of Kansas.Minorhistorian (talk) 02:13, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
- Presuming that "Battle of Kansas" is not ambiguous, that title is clearly superior to "B-29 Superfortress: the Battle of Kansas" according to WP:MOS. The current title is excessively long, uses "the" unnecessarily, and uses an uncommon name. "Battle of Kansas" is more common and would be more familiar when mentioned to a historically aware individual than "B-29 Superfortress: the Battle of Kansas". But most importantly, this name suggests that this page belongs to a hierarchy of articles related to the B-29. Chaparral2J (talk) 18:49, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
Kansas Prairie edit
63.245.164.62, All of the geographical notes available suggest that there was prairie in the Wichita region nearly 70 years ago, when the Boeing factory was extended to build the B-29: those who were there at the time describe the area as being prairie. If the topography and land use has changed since then it has nothing to do with the article. For example http://www.windsofkansas.com/pawnee.htmlMinorhistorian (talk) 09:42, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
I was always under the impression edit
that the battle of kansas was all the B-29 training bases that sprouted up in Kansas.., not necessarily just the Boeing Factory.--B29bomber (talk) 15:24, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
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Battle Won?? edit
Last paragraph seems rather questionable to me.
It doesn't say when "the first combat-ready B-29s started taking off...", which seems important. Guessing that it's sometime in May, 1944? So about 2-1/2 months late? Then saying something like "...though significantly delayed, the War of Kansas was won..." would be more accurate.
Also, the wording might lead a reader to think that General Arnold was involved in the "five weeks of exhausting work" -- he wasn't, he was back in Washington DC or flying off to London at the time. I don't think he even ever came out to Kansas during that time. Saying "five weeks of exhausting work by Boeing factory assemblers..." would make clear who did this exhausting work in the cold weather.
And that stress on the cold weather seems exaggerated. This was March, April & May. Average temps for then in Wichita, KS is 39, 47, 56ºF. Not that cold. And snowstorms? There were none in May, 1944 in Wichita, and they'd be unlikely in April, too. (Even here in Minnesota, 1,000 km north, April snowstorms are very rare.) Is there any recorded snowstorm in Kansas in late March or April, 1944? I'm doubtful. It makes a better story, but Wikipedia prefers accuracy. T bonham (talk) 05:40, 15 June 2021 (UTC)