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#3776851 - 05/03/13 07:17 AM Dornier 17 to be salvaged  
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22380915


Fear the quality of the CGI used..

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#3776872 - 05/03/13 09:51 AM Re: Dornier 17 to be salvaged [Re: Meurig]  
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So, this is the German Reich in the summer of 1940? See anything wrong with it? No?



It's almost funny if it wasn't so sad. Dear god, what happened to the BBC?

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#3776879 - 05/03/13 11:09 AM Re: Dornier 17 to be salvaged [Re: Meurig]  
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I used this page to report the inaccuracies in the map:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/21012132
#3776883 - 05/03/13 11:32 AM Re: Dornier 17 to be salvaged [Re: Meurig]  
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That is so pathetic how inaccurate that map is for the time period stated. I guess they have college interns doing their graphics now?

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#3776895 - 05/03/13 12:40 PM Re: Dornier 17 to be salvaged [Re: Meurig]  
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The Channel Islands. An unforgivable omission... duh

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#3776898 - 05/03/13 12:46 PM Re: Dornier 17 to be salvaged [Re: Meurig]  
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And I guess the geniuses over at the BBC forgot those little details about Germany occupying the western half of Poland and having integrated Austria and the Sudetenland into the Reich!

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#3777071 - 05/03/13 06:38 PM Re: Dornier 17 to be salvaged [Re: Meurig]  
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Hope they salvage the plane tho
S!

Incidently the map is now gone biggrin

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#3777074 - 05/03/13 06:40 PM Re: Dornier 17 to be salvaged [Re: Meurig]  
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I used to go to the BBC for ALL news, but they've really started slipping. Still bounds better than your average US news agency though.

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#3777116 - 05/03/13 08:14 PM Re: Dornier 17 to be salvaged [Re: Meurig]  
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Maybe this is why:

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#3777119 - 05/03/13 08:17 PM Re: Dornier 17 to be salvaged [Re: Meurig]  
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ID is Do17Z2 5K+AR 7/KG3, Werk Nr.1160 shot down when engaged over the Medway by Defiants of 264 Sqdn from Hornchurch. 26/8/40

Fw., Essmert. POW
Gefr., Huhn. KIA
Uffz., Reinhard. Missing
Uffz., Ritzel. Missing

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