To: naturalman1975
U571; the fictionalised account has American submariners, not British destroyermen, rescuing Enigma from a crippled German boat.Stupid. It would not have been any less dramatic or popular a story keeping the history intact.
I've learned over the years not to put much faith in the phrase based upon a true story. For example, if a movie based upon a true story is about a murder in Kansas, I know the true story could be as little as "there is actually a state called 'Kansas'."
9 posted on
01/07/2016 4:48:18 PM PST by
Jeff Chandler
(I shot Schroedinger's cat with Chekhov's gun.)
To: Jeff Chandler
Stupid. It would not have been any less dramatic or popular a story keeping the history intact. It also upset quite a lot of British and Commonwealth servicemen who saw it as a rewriting of history to suggest America did everything of value in the war. It really was stupid. Plenty of great Americans stories to tell - no need to steal other peoples.
15 posted on
01/07/2016 4:52:20 PM PST by
naturalman1975
("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
To: Jeff Chandler; Squantos
U571; the fictionalised account has American submariners, not British destroyermen, rescuing Enigma from a crippled German boat. Towed it back home, too, they did!
40 posted on
01/08/2016 12:25:43 PM PST by
archy
(Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, and eat you.)
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