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Did you know... that the Battle of Kansas was the crash program initiated by U.S. Army Air Force General Hap Arnold to expedite construction of the B-29 Superfortress at Boeing's massive plants in Wichita, Kansas?

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The Battle(s) of Kansas

Started a new page on the battle to get the B-29 into operational service. Feel free to join in.Minorhistorian (talk) 01:42, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The title strikes me as a little self-conscious. What would a reader searching for this material enter?--Wetman (talk) 15:54, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The page was started on a link from the main B-29 Superfortress page: however, it would be better to give an indication that this page is directly tied in to the B-29 - Perhaps B-29 Battle of Kansas?Minorhistorian (talk) 01:14, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Job done, page is now B-29 Superfortress: the Battle of Kansas.Minorhistorian (talk) 02:13, 2 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Presuming that "Battle of Kansas" is not ambiguous, that title is clearly superior to "B-29 Superfortress: the Battle of Kansas" according to WP:MOS. The current title is excessively long, uses "the" unnecessarily, and uses an uncommon name. "Battle of Kansas" is more common and would be more familiar when mentioned to a historically aware individual than "B-29 Superfortress: the Battle of Kansas". But most importantly, this name suggests that this page belongs to a hierarchy of articles related to the B-29. Chaparral2J (talk) 18:49, 23 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kansas Prairie

63.245.164.62, All of the geographical notes available suggest that there was prairie in the Wichita region nearly 70 years ago, when the Boeing factory was extended to build the B-29: those who were there at the time describe the area as being prairie. If the topography and land use has changed since then it has nothing to do with the article. For example http://www.windsofkansas.com/pawnee.html Minorhistorian (talk) 09:42, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I was always under the impression

that the battle of kansas was all the B-29 training bases that sprouted up in Kansas.., not necessarily just the Boeing Factory.--B29bomber (talk) 15:24, 25 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]