Forget the History books, the BBC have rescheduled it
It took part in a memorial flight in 2007 to mark 50 years of the Battle of Britain.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-20949389
DAMN the history books are wrong. 😮
Muppets.
By: knifeedgeturn - 9th January 2013 at 12:08
Cool, I’m a war baby!!!
Damn, just missed out, again…..
By: TonyT - 9th January 2013 at 11:46
They appear to have corrected their faux pas…
By: AlanR - 9th January 2013 at 11:01
I’m going to choose to assume someone forgot to add ‘Memorial Flight’ to that sentence as opposed to actually being THAT ignorant…
Then again, I almost fell out of my chair when Mathew Pinsent revealed he’d never heard of Monte Cassino, a battle his grandfather fought in. If an Eton and Oxford grad has never heard of it, perhaps we should rethink how we’re teaching history.
From personal experience, while doing some work for a Cambridge graduate who was teaching Latin and Ancient Greek,
that doesn’t surprise me in the least.
By: Bob - 9th January 2013 at 10:50
Cool, I’m a war baby!!!
By: avion ancien - 9th January 2013 at 10:02
Montecassino? Isn’t he the chap who runs the local Italian restaurant or is it an online gambling site? And I don’t think that it’s on record – yet – that either was an answer given in a GCSE history examination, although it would not surprise me to learn that it is the case!
By: jack windsor - 9th January 2013 at 09:45
He obviously hasn’t heard that wonderful song – or listened to the words either!!
Echo,s of Don Lang…and i belive it got into the charts…not a hope in todays cause you can hear the words and if you wanted to whistle the tune later you could…
regards
jack…
By: charliehunt - 9th January 2013 at 08:22
I’m going to choose to assume someone forgot to add ‘Memorial Flight’ to that sentence as opposed to actually being THAT ignorant…
Nope – I think you’d get better odds on someone being that ignorant. We are talking BBC here, don’t forget…..;)
By: suthg - 9th January 2013 at 08:14
He obviously hasn’t heard that wonderful song – or listened to the words either!!
By: D1566 - 9th January 2013 at 04:16
In discussion with one of my former employers IT ‘whizkids’, who expressed an interest in history, it turned out that he had never heard of the Bismarck and the British efforts to sink it ….
By: Jayce - 9th January 2013 at 02:48
I’m going to choose to assume someone forgot to add ‘Memorial Flight’ to that sentence as opposed to actually being THAT ignorant…
Then again, I almost fell out of my chair when Mathew Pinsent revealed he’d never heard of Monte Cassino, a battle his grandfather fought in. If an Eton and Oxford grad has never heard of it, perhaps we should rethink how we’re teaching history.
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