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A fact from Blanton Winship appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 8 March 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Blanton C. Winship, a veteran of Spanish-American War and World War I survived an assassination attempt while he was Governor of Puerto Rico in 1938?

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The link for this has expired: Top Army Lawyer Also Was A Combat Hero…Winship's Record In Puerto Rico Was Hardly Heroic by Robert F. Dorr, Puerto Rico Herald. May 3, 2004.

The above cite is incorrect. The correct citation is: Top Army Lawyer was Also a Combat Hero by Robert F Dorr, and Letter to the Editor by Lt Col Esteban Jimenez.

And the new url is http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/2004/vol8n35/TopArmyLawyer.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rumjal (talk • contribs) 03:28, 25 October 2008 (UTC) rumjal 03:11, 25 October 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rumjal (talk • contribs) rumjal 03:31, 25 October 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rumjal (talk • contribs) [reply]

There should be a link to http://www.soc.umn.edu/~samaha/nazi_saboteurs/indexnazi.htm

And to http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Ex_parte_Quirin rumjal 03:42, 25 October 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rumjal (talk • contribs)

Six Nazi Spies Were Executed in DC, White Supremacists Gave Them a Memorial--on Federal Land https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/06/23/six-nazi-spies-were-executed-in-d-c-white-supremacists-gave-them-a-memorial-on-federal-land/?utm_term=.3079d22a99d7 courtesy Rumjal rumjal 05:26, 26 June 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rumjal (talk • contribs) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rumjal (talk • contribs)

This article should follow the style of the below article in listing awards and decorations and dates of rank https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Robert_C._Richardson_Jr. rumjal 00:17, 22 August 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rumjal (talk • contribs)

RMS Titanic

A search on Google discloses that President Taft ordered then Major Blanton Winship to search for his old Bachelor Officers Quarters roommate Major Archibald Butt who was a passenger in first class on Titanic and was a Presidential Aide ^[1] When the Carpathia failed to return Major Butt, Winship was ordered to search among the drowned corpses retrieved from Titanic's sinking by the cable ship Mackay-Bennett in Halifax NS.. but Butt's body was never recovered. ^[2] Kemual (talk) 16:03, 9 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

^[3] pages 68-70 relate to the above. 72.196.196.165 (talk) 19:17, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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JAG School

I want to suggest that the US Army jag School be asked to help write this article. They are the scholars of the Army and would do a great job. https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/United_States_Army_Judge_Advocate_General%27s_Corps Kemual (talk) 05:07, 8 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttps://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Archibald_Butt

[2] ttps://books.google.com/books?id=96mPDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69&dq=titanic+OR+butt+OR+carpathia+%22blanton+winship%22&source=bl&ots=m92JtiWjXS&sig=ACfU3U0Lp4FMLXaj1OfRfr_b_E_GqSfofw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiX5OmTld3uAhUkn-AKHTioBPI4ChDoATACegQIBBAC#v=onepage&q=titanic%20OR%20butt%20OR%20carpathia%20%22blanton%20winship%22&f=false

[3] Last Night on the Titanic by Veronica Hinke

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