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Hi Mike
Know the feeling, see something in a publication that you know is wrong or incomplete, what do you do? How I judge historical or informational sites or publications is how do they take information corrections. If they print corrections in the next issue then their is hope for them. If you can do them the favor of collecting the additional or supplemental information to help them correct the miss impression great. Yes, I am phrasing it so that they can correct them selves.
We have all seen books and articles that have photos miss identified and it drives me crazy. But there is little you can do. All to often it these errors get carried forward from publication to publication. One of my favorites is a photo of a "jeep" over turned in the surf during the US landings in North African problem it is clearly a Dodge. I happened to find the source photo in the US Archives in Washington and the photo was miss labeled or generically labeled talk to one of the curators about it and there was "0" interest in correction or even adding a note.
Cheers Phil
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