Following the Battle of Saipan, US Marine units crossed from Saipan on 24 July 1944 and landed on two beaches on Tinian's north coast, taking the Japanese by surprise. The Marines considerably outnumbered the Japanese forces and most resistance ended on 1 August. The island was later developed into a key American bomber base and was used to launch the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 -- providing a connection to nominator Hawkeye's long-running series of articles related to the Manhatten Project.
Per Dugan's nomination statement, "A man and a woman enslaved in the United States find an opportunity during the War of 1812 to escape their home country and settle down as free people in rural Nova Scotia. Half a century later, their son travels to the American South as a US Navy sailor in the war to end slavery. His grave went unmarked until 2010 when he was honored with a Civil War-era military funeral service. This is one of those instances where you go on vacation, read a historical marker, look to Wikipedia for more information, then end up overhauling the article."
Tim Hughes was a decorated Australian Aboriginal soldier of the Second World War who went on to achieve success in the soldier-settlement scheme after the war. He was also appointed MBE for his inaugural chairmanship of the Aboriginal Lands Trust. In the nomination statement, Peacemaker67 noted that Wikipedia doesn't have many articles on corporals, but Hughes has his own entry in the Australian Dictionary of Biography due to his military service and peacetime career.
While nuclear weapons were obviously not used in the 1982 Falklands War, there's a nuclear aspect to the conflict. The Royal Navy warships that were sent to the South Atlantic carried most of the UK's stockpile of nuclear depth bombs, mainly as it would have taken too long to have offloaded them. It has also been reported during and after the war that a British ballistic missile submarine had been sent to menace Argentina but historians have found no evidence that such a deployment took place. Interestingly, it emerged in recent years that British Prime Minister Thatcher might have been willing to use nuclear weapons if the war had gone disastrously for her.
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