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Stephen W. Thompson

http://current.com/items/89393772_racist_obama_billboard_causes_outrage?xid=216 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.137.188.132 (talk) 20:55, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted this "notable" without prejudice -- there are a number of people by this name with significant achievements, but we have to know which, and for what. DavidOaks 04:29, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Call No. 168.7008

IRIS Nos. 0125910-0125919, 1004901, 1020253

(1894-1977). First Lieutenant. Coast Artillery Corps, 1917-1919. Born 20 March 1894, West Plains, MO. BS, U of Missouri, 1917. First American credited with an aerial victory (as observer-gunner in French plane) while a member of the US Service in World War I. Died 9 October 1977, Dayton, OH.

Personal papers relating to Thompson's World War I duty and his aerial victory, 5 February 1918. Includes personal correspondence with his parents (1917-1918), official correspondence (1918), a personal diary (1913-1918), and a scrapbook (1917-1919). Scrapbook contains clippings, copies of some reports, and some correspondence relating to Thompson's claim of first aerial victory by a member of the US Air Service. Also includes a translation of 1967 study by the Saarbrucken (Germany) Archives supporting his claim and a copy of a 1974 issue of Aerospace Historian containing an article by Royal Frey on the official recognition of Thompson's claim.

Related materials located elsewhere in the Document Collection, Air Force Historical Research Agency, include two oral history interviews, no transcripts available (1963, 1968).

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Ma Barker incident

A link was added yesterday, then promptly and properly deleted because its relevance wasn't clear. It leads to an account of a significant event that should be given a little paragraph, perhaps, in the history section: "The Ma Barker Gang and the death of Sheriff Kelly - http://www.watersheds.org/education/richards/shootout.htm" DavidOaks (talk) 11:41, 24 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm now working on rewriting the article top to bottom over in my sandbox. I recently found this message here, and I will research more into the situation and add it to a new "history" section. It will take a while as I have a lot going on right now...so I would appreciate any help there! Thanks! –Jonny T. 21:06, 28 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Should the oxymoron be edited?

Article says, "Though Howell County was in Union-controlled Missouri, it was easily within Confederate control due to its position on the Arkansas border." (FairNPOV (talk) 19:40, 22 November 2020 (UTC))[reply]

Nice catch User:FairNPOV. Looks to me to be totally unnecessary as the situation is better described earlier in the section. I’ve deleted they offending sentence. Grey Wanderer (talk) 21:07, 22 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sockpuppet of User:PeacePeace strinked and noted per WP:BE, —Paleo Neonate – 23:02, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]