Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!cbnews!military From: msmiller@gonzoville.East.Sun.COM (Mark Miller - OpenWindows Contractor) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Piece of Cake Message-ID: <1990Jul28.161313.2631@cbnews.att.com> Date: 28 Jul 90 16:13:13 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 23 Approved: military@att.att.com From: msmiller@gonzoville.East.Sun.COM (Mark Miller - OpenWindows Contractor) In article <1990Jul25.004830.7352@cbnews.att.com> you write: |> |>From: Mary Shafer |>I'm not trying to stop the discussion about Spitfire marks and the |>Battle of Britian, but I have to point out that "Piece of Cake" is |>written about a Hurricane squadron. However, it was switched to |>Spits for the television version because there weren't enough flying |>Hurricanes available. The way I heard it was that the museum that had the Hurri's (maybe an RAF museum) didn't want to give the planes because of the way the pilots were portrayed (which was considerring unflattering by UK standards). -MSM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mark S. Miller "Different "In a nation ruled by swine, UUCP: msmiller@Sun.COM things all pigs are upward mobile." GEnie/AOL: MSMILLER vary" - Hunter S. Thompson