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TFA blurb review[edit]

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British logistics in the Normandy Campaign played a key role in the success of Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of France in June 1944. The Allies had to land sufficient assaulting forces to overcome the initial opposition, and build them up faster than the Germans could respond. The British Second Army and Canadian First Army included six armoured divisions (including the Polish 1st Armoured Division), ten infantry divisions, two airborne divisions, nine independent armoured brigades and two commando brigades. Logistical units included 6 supply unit headquarters, 25 Base Supply Depots, 83 Detail Issue Depots, 25 field bakeries, 14 field butcheries and 18 port detachments. During the first seven weeks, the advance was much slower than anticipated, but by 26 July, 675,000 personnel, 150,000 vehicles, 690,000 tonnes (680,000 long tons) of stores and 69,000 tonnes (68,000 long tons) of bulk petrol had been landed. (Full article...)

Just a suggested blurb ... thoughts and edits are welcome. - Dank (push to talk) 22:30, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Why are we doing this? The article was only promoted a couple of hours ago. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:39, 12 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I don't understand the question ... is it, why are we doing blurb reviews in general? Or do you want to put it off for this article? Or would you like to do the blurb yourself? No problem, with any of those. - Dank (push to talk) 01:42, 12 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The blurb is fine. I meant that we didn't normally prepare a blurb until the article was scheduled to run. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 02:23, 12 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Everyone who's said anything so far prefers we do them after promotion in general ... but there have been 3 or 4 who didn't want to think about it right after promotion, they worked on blurbs later, and that's fine too. - Dank (push to talk) 03:03, 12 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]