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Article milestones Date Process Result October 1, 2018 Good article nominee Listed July 7, 2022 WikiProject A-class review Approved August 12, 2022 Featured article candidate Not promoted November 17, 2022 Featured article candidate Not promoted A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on December 7, 2018. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Oswald Boelcke has been described as the father of air combat tactics, the organization of squadrons, and the German Air Force? A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on January 12, 2021. Current status: Former featured article candidate, current good article

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This article contains a translation of Oswald Boelcke from de.wikipedia.

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The following German sources are available for use by a German-speaker:

"Die deutschen Kriegsschiffe 1815-1945: Spezial-, Hilfskriegs-, Hilfsschiffe, Kleinschiffsverbände" by Erich Gröner

"Rettungsaktion Ostsee 1944/1945" by Martin Schmidtke.Georgejdorner (talk) 01:33, 22 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]