Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Doolittle Raid Over Tokyo
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- Reason
- A Castle Films Newsreel discussing the Doolittle Raid, including interviews and footage from the task force ships involved in the air raid - notably, the film captures the first ever bomber raid launched from carrier ships, as USS Hornet (CV-8) was used to ferry the 16 B-25 Mitchell aircraft to a distance from which they could strike the Empire of Japan's home island. A veritable gold mine for historians, the footage is irreplaceable in every sense of the word and historically valuable in every sense of the phrase, hence the nomination here.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Doolittle Raid
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/World War II
- Creator
- Castle Films, US Government
- Support as nominator – TomStar81 (Talk) 10:37, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
- Support Great find. APK whisper in my ear 12:41, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
- Strong Support Really great find. High EV. It is great to see video on the FP section but perhaps we may want to consider a FV section, albeit the site does not have a lot of video something to think about. talk→ WPPilot 03:30, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
- Support – Great piece of period history documenting a unique military exploit. Of particular historical interest: The narrator's pious statement (in 1942) that "only targets of military value will be hit." (In the later years of WWII, civilians became the targets of Allied bombing attacks on cities; in Japan and Germany each, an estimated 500,000 were killed.) Sca (talk) 14:36, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
- Support - Useful bit of documentation. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 09:54, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
- Support - Very nice.-Jobas (talk) 19:19, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
Promoted File:Doolittle Raid Over Tokyo.ogv --Armbrust The Homunculus 12:53, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
- Belated comment - I (the uploader) wasn't notified of this nomination, but I'd like to point out that the file is available in much higher resolution (630 mb)[1], if someone wants to convert the mpg to ogv. FunkMonk (talk) 08:43, 2 March 2015 (UTC)