Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com): > You may well be correct, but to my grandfather they were loaned. I do > know that when they left, each was equipt with a good sturdy tag/label > bareing the owners name & address, well sealed against the elements. > > I would suspect that the possibility of a little history rewriting may > have been done over the last 70 years to lesson the language from "loan" > to "gift". Recall as always, that the history of a war is written by > the winners.
That's difficult to do with contemporary newspaper appeals: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=861&dat=19401112&id=vDFSAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EjYNAAAAIBAJ&pg=3629,1766022&hl=en https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=19401208&id=mChWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CuQDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6924,2616059&hl=en (The latter pops up one column to the right of the story's start.) Cheers, David.
