User:Folks at 137

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Dear Reader,

Thankyou for dropping by my home page.

If you wish to leave a message, insult, praise, etc, then please use my talk page. Thanks.

I'm a recent contributor, mainly since August 2005, and prone to over-simplifying. But basically good-natured and I try to avoid nastiness. I'm still getting to grips with conventions and rules.

Areas of interest have been fairly random, but include WW2, places I've visited and my area of work. Contributions include:

Admiral Hipper class cruiser
Arranmore
Battle of Cape Bon
Battle of Okinawa
Booze cruise
Capitani Romani class cruiser
Condottieri class cruiser
Electronic data processing
German battleship Tirpitz
Hemel Hempstead
HMS Unicorn (I72)
Islington North (UK Parliament constituency)
Krujë
Ksamil
List of operations and projects (military and non-military)
List of World War II ships
Malta Convoys
Operation Berlin
Operation Countenance
Operation Nordseetour
Operation Source
Operation Sportpalast
Operation Stonewall
Operation Veritable
Regia Marina
Rheinübung
Rhineland
Samuel Ryder has received a "needs verification", without explanation
Saulxures-sur-Moselotte
Spain in World War II
Spring Offensive
The Life That I Have I goofed on this one.
Wangford
William Hood Simpson

Work in progress

1 Stoneage or Stone Age?
2 naval box template
3 Mil Hist template
4 websites

[edit] Stoneage or Stone Age?

Dear Folks- When I wrote my book on the subject (Hell, ten years ago, gosh I am old!) of military codewords, my sources indicated it was two words. Those sources were with the (American) Merchant Marine. Of course in those days before cut-and-paste spelling and other errors were rampant. (Check out Operation Starlite for a good example.

So if you would like to change it to one word, please feel free. I would ask you to add a link to a page for the two word variant, which might just be that, a variant.

Finally, are you and I the only people with an unusual attraction to codewords?

Paul, in Saudi 02:08, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Dear Folks- I would not want to say with authority which is correct. As likely as not, some typist put it one way on some documents and the other way on others. In those pre-computer time things like that were accepted pretty well.

Due to security concerns, I am on dialup for the next few weeks. Please do not think I am ignoring your fine contributions. Paul, in Saudi 14:43, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] naval box template

Career
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Built By:
Laid down:
Launched:
Commissioned:
Paid off:
Fate:
Penant:
General Characteristics
Type:
Displacement:
Length:
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Draught:
Propulsion:
Speed:
Range:
Complement:
Armament: Original configuration:	.
Armament:
Armour: Original configuration	magazine box protection, deck, side-plating,turrets and bulkheads, belt, internal boiler room sides (added 1936-1940).
Aircraft:

[edit] Mil Hist template

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