[Info-vax] OT actors being treated as their screen character Was: Re: Nice

[Paul Sture]

On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 17:34:20 +0100, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:

> On Fri, 2012-08-17 at 09:22 -0500, Bob Koehler wrote:
>> > Like the film where brave US navy men captured an Enigma machine,
>> while
>> > in fact it had been a Royal Navy lieutenant.
>> 
>>    Despite the many times Hollywood ignores the facts, the US Navy did
>>    capture an Enigma.
>> 
>>    What Hollywood left out was, the Royal Navy did it first.
> 
> Patrick Beesley says it best in his book "Very Special Intelligence -
> Admiralty's Operational Centre, 1939-1945", one of the best books ever
> written. In it he details how the RN "pinched" an Enigma from the
> Germans and how annoyed the Admiralty were when the Americans got in on
> the act.

Yes there was and still is a lot of rivalry between the US and British 
forces.   A tale I heard during the Russian occupation of Afgahnistan was 
that a Russian helicopter had been captured and US and British officials 
had a meeting to decide who got to take it apart.  I think the US won 
that round, but right at the end of the meeting the British said "Oh, you 
might find this helpful", dropping a full set of blueprints for the 
helicopter onto the table :-)

-- 
Paul Sture