Template:Did you know nominations/Operation Totem

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The result was: promoted by Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 13:19, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

Operation Totem

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The Atomic Tank at Robertson Barracks
The Atomic Tank at Robertson Barracks
  • ... that The Atomic Tank (pictured) was subjected to the Operation Totem nuclear tests, but went on to serve for another 23 years, including 15 months in Vietnam? Source: "Although other tanks have been exposed to atomic testing, amongst them a couple of British Centurion tanks deployed within the Maralinga, South Australia target area during the Buffalo series of atomic tests in the latter half of the 1950s, 169041 is the only tank known to have withstood atomic tests and subsequently gone on for another 23 years of service, including 15 months on operational deployment in a war zone." [1]

Improved to Good Article status by Hawkeye7 (talk). Self-nominated at 10:28, 24 October 2018 (UTC).

  • no copyvios, long enough, cited, interesting. Good to go. L293D ( • ) 02:39, 25 October 2018 (UTC)