Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Normandy Supply

 
Landing supplies at Normandy shortly after D-Day, 1944. Thus began the push which was to mark the turn of the Second World War for the Allies.
 
Edit 1: a rough rotate and crop for comparison
 
Edit 2: dust and scratches removed, slight tonal tweak, tiny crop for residual print border
Reason
Iconic, Irreplicable, Represents one of the biggest military actions in history, large image size.
Articles this image appears in
World War II, 1944, Battle of Normandy, Barrage balloon, Chronology of World War II
Creator
US Navy
  • Support as nominatorWitty lama 07:35, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support, the technical problems are obvious, but I really like this... later at the beach landing when they are unloading equipment (and the barrage balloons are pretty cool). I think it could use a nicer summary. gren グレン 08:40, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Support original and edit 2 Very historic, capturing the moment in an truly irriplacible irreplaceable way. Thegreenj 02:02, 11 April 2007 (UTC) I really ought to check my spelling more carefully! Thegreenj 21:55, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support per above.--Uberlemur 15:29, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support both (With preference for the edit) - I wish that the picture was more clean and clear and it also has a bad tilt. But it's obviously huge (the army)! Amazing shot. --Arad 00:10, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support- Does a rather good job at showing the scale of the operation. --Lewk_of_Serthic contrib talk 13:54, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - is there some guideline advising against retouching of historical images which I might be unaware of? This one, like a number of others I've seen, has an inordinate amount of dust and scratches which I'd be happy to clean up.. I've heard arguments in the past warning against the potential for lost 'siginifcant detail' if the retouch was less than respectful, that's all. For example, there might be a temptation to correct the skewed horizon, but the crop would lose detail at the margins. Just wondered; offer stands. mikaultalk 12:49, 14 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:NormandySupply_edit.jpg --KFP (talk | contribs) 09:51, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]