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My question on the B17's probably related to the fact the program
totally
ignored the Dams,the Tirpitz,etc all involving a touch of precision

Yes the so called pundits with the most resources to get A message
out to the public are the ones ignoring the facts, but it is also
the consumers of these so called facts who want their
fables fed to them by spoon rather than consulting
reputable historians who are at fault as well.

There was that fairey tale about U-571 which claimed
that the US Navy intercepted secret signals from a U-Boat,
decyphered the signals and using these spectacular results
sent a force and captured said U-Boat. A true work of fiction,
however people who saw this fairey tale asked me
in all seriousness whether I had heard about this
heroic episode of the anti submarine war.


For military movie fiction you can't "The Sound Barrier"
showing the British being the first to achieve supersonic
flight.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044446/

I am surprised that you could find that one
what with the extensive air brushing out of any
British accomplishments.
I assume that you are stating that the British
did nothing in the attempts to fly faster
than the speed of sound. No surprise there.
Air brush away!


No, just that British complaints about the inaccuracy
of "U-571" need to take into account their country's own
loose treatment of history.

Air Brush In High Gear.

And then there is British director David Leans' "Bridge
Over The River Kwai", which credited the British for an
action that in fact Americans accomplished.........

http://www.gunplot.net/kwairailway/s...marailway.html

Look at the table showing, if your *claim* is more than a fable,
that +-700 Americans built the death railway and the bridges. They
only lost 356 to the harsh conditions.
Makes one wonder what +-30,000 British, +-18,000 Dutch,
+-13,000 Australian pows with the losses of 6,540 British,
2,830 Dutch and 2,710 were doing at the time wouldn't you
say?





http://www.kanchanaburi-info.com/en/muang.html


Historical background: 'Death Railway'

In 1943 thousands of Allied Prisoners of War (PoW) and Asian labourers
worked on the Death Railway under the imperial Japanese army in order to
construct part of the 415 km long Burma-Thailand railway. **Most of these
men were Australians, Dutch and British** and they had been working steadily
southwards from Thanbyuzayat (Burma) to link with other PoW on the Thai side
of the railway. This railway was intended to move men and supplies to the
Burmese front where the Japanese were fighting the British. Japanese army
engineers selected the route which traversed deep valleys and hills. All the
heavy work was done manually either by hand or by elephant as earth moving
equipment was not available. The railway line originally ran within 50
meters of the Three Pagodas Pass which marks nowadays the border to Burma.
However after the war the entire railway was removed and sold as it was
deemed unsafe and politically undesirable. The prisoners lived in squalor
with a near starvation diet. They were subjected to captor brutality and
thus thousands perished. The men worked from dawn until after dark and often
had to trudge many kilometres through the jungle to return to base camp
where Allied doctors tended the injured and diseased by many died. After the
war the dead were collectively reburied in the War Cemeteries and will
remain forever witness to a brutal and tragic ordeal.



Don-Rak War Cemetery

This War Cemetery is also known as the Kanchanaburi War Cemetery. It is
located opposite Kanchanaburi's Railway Station on Saengchootoe Road. It
contains the remains of **6,982 Australian, Dutch and British** war
prisoners who lost their lives during the construction of the Death Railway.