Battle of Britain..70 years ago...

[Phil Waterman]

Originally Posted by Ed Storey

I saw this on the 2200 newscast and photographed it off of the TV during the 2300 showing. Apparently CTV News seems to think that F8F Bearcat fighters were used during the Battle of Britain! I guess it is just too difficult to find an image of a Spitfire or a Hurricane.

Hi Ed

Sorry to say we all see stuff like this on TV down here in the states it generally is the history channel that doesn't have a clue about correct images, wife won't watch any thing about WWII, Korea, etc with me unless I promise not to keep pointing out the equipment errors, or that the gun camera images in a program about Korea are actually of a ME109.

Hope you offered CTV your services as a "well paid" historical equipment expert, charge them say $200 per correct image identification.

PS how did you happen to have your camera at hand to catch the image?

Cheers Phil