Internet Accuracy - misleading the led ..

[Dianaa]

Its why historians and scientists go to primary sources for fact checking.

(But we all knew that)

BTW: I won't sleep tonight knowing that there is something incorrect on the internet!

[Hanno Spoelstra]

The incorrect explanation was published back in 1978 when the internet as we know it today wasn't here yet. What l am trying to say is that inaccuracy is not so much a problem of "The Internet", but of all publications, either printed or electronically. I hate to see publications from the 60s/70s reproduced with the same errors. With more source material available now that archives are better accessible - through the Internet - we should all make an effort to correct the mistakes of researchers before us.

[maple_leaf_eh]

Talking out of my arsse here - but isn't DUKW a code sequence that was never meant to be an acronym?

(And yes I have to snicker at people who try to devine the meaning of proper names as if they were acronyms. "What does ILTIS mean?" "It is German for polecat." "No, it has to mean something." "It means stinky little weasel." "No, it must be something like Integrated Light Transport Infantry System?" "Sure, keep telling yourself that.")