To claim only the SAAF’s 40+ aircraft, however important their contribution, stood alone against 300 Italian is a propaganda myth.

Please check again in the movie: at no time is said or insinuated or claimed that the SAAF stood alone against the RA. Maybe you interpret it that way, but it was definitely not meant to be that way. Remember the narrative is from the point of view of the SAAF and goes: “At the outset of hostilities there were only forty SA aircraft facing an estimated 300 Italian machines”. “only” here mean there were a very few South African aircraft and does not mean they were the only Allied aircraft in the conflict which is of course wrong.

Some people commenting in this thread in any case interpreted the narrative the correct way.

Anyway we can bla bla bla here forever and we can labour the issue of misinterpretation but I still feel it is wrong to say this movie is:

a) An insult to the French:D
b) An insult to the Indians:highly_amused:
c) An insult to the British:cool:
d) A myth:mad:
e) Propaganda:o
e) Gross distortion:cool:
f) History Hollywood style:rolleyes: