Nick-D

There's one characteristic that sets writing apart from most of the other arts – its apparent democracy, by which I mean its availability to almost everyone as a medium of expression
— Margaret Atwood, On Writers and Writing

It’s a funny habit to write encyclopedia entries. It’s not a mass taste.
— Sue Gardner

Arguing with anonymous strangers on the internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be – or to be indistinguishable from – self-righteous sixteen year olds possessing infinite amounts of free time
— Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon

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To do list
I intend to work on these articles in the near future:

Battle of Tarakan (1945)
1 May 1982 engagements (draft under development here, and suggestions for a better article name would be appreciated!)
Proposed Japanese invasion of Australia during World War II
Operation Title
Operation Source

I also have plans to improve or start the following articles over the longer term:

Battle for Brest - User:Nick-D/Drafts12
Bombing of Kure (July 1945) (if I can ever find enough sources)
Australia in the War of 1939–1945
Convoy TM-1/Convoy TM 1 (see: User:Nick-D/Drafts2)
Various RAAF flying squadrons (see User:Nick-D/RAAF_sqns)
B-24 Liberator in Australian service (User:Nick-D/Drafts6)
Sheila Mary McClemans - Director of the WRANS for much of World War II
Margaret Irene Lang
Australian occupation of British Borneo and the Netherlands East Indies - see User:Nick-D/Drafts7
Attack on Kure (March 1945)
Recovery of Allied prisoners of war and internees from Japanese captivity (draft under development at User:Nick-D/Drafts11)
Japanese home island air defences of World War II - see User:Nick-D/Drafts5
Allied air raids on Hokkaido and northern Honshu
Operation Inmate
Liberation of Strasbourg
Operation Counterblast
Australian contribution to the Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II (1943-45)
Battle of Trier
Battle of Luzon re-write (at User:Nick-D/Drafts16)
Pacification of Rabaul - needs a new title for starters
Battle of the Mons Pocket
British re-occupation of Hong Kong (at User:Nick-D/Drafts17)
Manpower Directorate (Australia)
Atlantic pockets
Operation Argos
1st Army Tank Brigade (New Zealand)
Brewster SB2A Buccaneer
Australian military deployments to Europe since 1945 (at User:Nick-D/Drafts16)
South African forces in the Rhodesian Bush War (at User:Nick-D/Drafts8)
Royal Air Force attacks on the German battleship Tirpitz (1940–1942) (at User:Nick-D/Drafts9)
British nuclear weapons and the Falklands War (at User:Nick-D/Drafts18)