DVD to avoid

**Baxter** · 09-03-2015 14:14

Combat Aircraft 1900 - 1945. Re-released in stores here in Oz in time for fathers day and not cheap either. Full of old grainy newsreel footage with sound overs. Planes do not match commentaries, heavy emphasis on US aircraft, full of historical inaccuracies too. Keeps referring to the threat of the destroyer Tirpitz which amused me as well. I think the Royal Mint must have a hand in this one somewhere

I got a copy from the local library. Free thank goodness!

**Tonx** · 09-03-2015 14:20

Gary thank you for the heads up on this terrible turkey!

I am wondering if Royal Mint had a hand in this diatribe too

Will wait until somebody posts it on Youtube before daring to look any further into this one!!!

**gully_raker** · 09-03-2015 14:51

Thanks for the Heads Up Gary!
There are far too many offerings like this that purport to be Historical efforts but are much lacking in accuracy.

**BobP** · 09-03-2015 17:34

Again another example of not knowing what they are talking about. On the anniversary of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis a reported called her a battleship. She was a heavy cruiser (CA). This was mentioned in another thread a few months back.

**Archidamus** · 09-04-2015 01:15

Thanks for the heads-up Gary - these slip-shod "documentaries" are really off-putting (I cringe when watching some of the WWII programmes where the soundtrack talks about one tank when a totally different one is shown on screen, for instance)

**Tonx** · 09-04-2015 04:31

This runs along the lines of several dumbo-bolloxes in the media recently who take a photo - quite a spectacular one in some cases: Only to go and ruin their efforts by ...

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**Flying Officer Kyte** · 09-04-2015 12:22

Great!
Saving me money again.
Thanks Gary.
Rob.

**Flying Helmut** · 09-04-2015 13:50

Thanks for the warning!

I often cringe at erroneous commentary on archive footage - glad to be able to avoid this lot.

**csadn** · 09-04-2015 15:07

Contrast with the American Heroes [Discovery] Channel series _Gunslingers_ -- they at least tried to get everything right (tho' it's difficult to get New Mexico to look like Oklahoma).