William Black ha scritto:


1. Why do the fakers do it?

2. Why do people like the Shantags spend their lives looking for them?

Another question: where one draw the line between posers and talltellers ?

I write from s.m.n. but I guess that also the people in rec.aviation.*
knew the old saying "sailor's story"........


Once here on the Rivista Marittima was an interesting article about the
perception of the number of sunken RN submarines, pointing out facts
like that in relatively shallow waters, the reflex wave of depth charges
came to the surface as a cigar-shaped rising of water whose in the heat
of action and/or limited light condition can easily taken for a capsized
submarine hull rising then sinking for all.

And also there was the pathethic case of the Commander Grosso, whose
misidentify CA's for BB's and different bearing angles for sinking
conditionsm ending in a double granting and double rewoking of Gold
Medals of Valor (an really exceptional case, esp. involving our highest
decoration)

Best regards from Italy,
Dott. Piergiorgio.