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A fact from Sonderkommando Blaich appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 27 June 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that, in February 1942, a lone German Heinkel He 111 from the Sonderkommando Blaich successfully attacked Free French Forces at Fort Lamy, Chad, but ran out of fuel on the return flight?

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Bombload[edit]

The article states that 10,000 lbs of bombs were dropped on the target. I question the accuracy of this number as it is almost double the bombload for the He 111 (2500 kg/5511 lb), especially since it was a long range mission. Nibios (talk) 23:33, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I see your point. I've rechecked the book source and it claims a bomb load of 16 bombs with a total weight of 10,000 lbs. Possibly, the source is just simply wrong or a mistake was made when it was translated from German to English, which would also have involved a conversion of kg to lbs. If the information appears implausible I recommend removing it. Calistemon (talk) 04:55, 30 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

CE[edit]

Tidied prose, auto ed, cite scan, dupe wlinks. All suggestive, rv as desired. Keith-264 (talk) 16:14, 22 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]