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A fact from USS Pima County appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 May 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the World War II tank landing ship USS LST-1081(pictured) was brought back into service with the US Navy because of the Korean War?
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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
... that the World War II tank landing ship USS LST-1081(pictured) served as a freighter until wrecked by fire off El Salvador in 1979? "Nickel Ferry (ex-LST 1081 Pima County) was gutted by fire while lying at La Union, El Salvador, 1 Dec 1979." from: Warship International. International Naval Research Organization. 1973. p. 144.
ALT1:... that the World War II tank landing ship USS LST-1081(pictured) was brought back into service with the US Navy because of the Korean War? "Trouble flared in Korea four years later. The North Korean army burst into South Korea 25 June 1950 and apparently was carrying everything before it. To give added authority to the free world-s stance, many Reserve Fleet units were called back to service. LST-1081 was ordered reactivated 7 August 1950 and, after overhaul, recommissioned 2 February 1951." from:"Pima County". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Navy Department, Naval History and Heritage Command. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
Overall: Article satisfies the length minimum (7,585 characters; 1,334 words); hooks satisfy the length limit. Sourcing is acceptable and the article passed a copyvio scan. I am preferential to the alternate hook because the article does not provide any additional information on the cause of the fire, but it does explain why the ship was called back into service. The image is suitable for the hook, and I added an alt text in the article for accessibility reasons. Great nomination! Thrakkx (talk) 22:31, 2 May 2021 (UTC)Reply