Talk:Pat Pattle

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In roald dahl's book [going solo] roald was in pat's squadron. He fought ME 109s. But it says that pat was fighting BF 110s. I'm not sure.

Pattle
In the article it was stated that Pattle joined the SAAF in South Africa which is wrong; he joined the SSB regiment or "Special Service Battalion". He also went to a primary school in Keetmanshoop in Namibia. 41.240.87.199 (talk) 20:21, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Recent changes
I've restored the texts back to their original state. The recent edits were not to standard for a good article. The grammar was not good; the internet sources used were/are unreliable; there is a tally list for aerial victories in detail so there is no need to add reports of over claiming after each and every sentence about Pattle's claims; the citations did not use the appropriate format; I've noticed in one case a paragraph was removed because it had no citations (it did); paragraphs were broken up needlessly and it looked messy. Dapi89 (talk) 16:42, 30 November 2014 (UTC)

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Going Solo: Not a reliable source
I'm rooting out all citations of this source, because it's not reliable, especially when the official histories and various secondary sources are available. Catrìona (talk) 23:03, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

Formatting inconsistency
Just to note that some of the formatting of ranks is inconsistent -- some in italics and some not. Also, this: "Sergente Tenente Maggiore Viola" is obviously incorrect. I assume that "Tenente" has somehow worked its way into the middle and that the rank ought to be "Sergente Maggiore".

Dr Martin Boycott-Brown (talk) 08:05, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I would not make that assumption, unless you're familiar with the Italian WWII rank system. Ideally someone would consult the source (Gladiator vs CR.42 Falco: 1940–41) and find out what it actually says. Even if it's wrong, I don't think we can assume which rank is actually correct. Catrìona (talk) 16:17, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Image


This photo of a crashed Fiat CR42 does not seem appropriate for the article, since there is no indication that this particular one was shot down by Pattle. –dlthewave ☎ 03:10, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
 * It makes perfect sense. As ive already explained. Dapi89 (talk) 19:59, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Your edit summary was "of course it is relevant. He claimed 14." I disagree that it is relevant, since this particular crash is unrelated to Pattle. –dlthewave ☎ 20:31, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

Exactly. A large portion of them were CR 42s. Automatically makes an image of it relevant. Dapi89 (talk) 22:07, 10 March 2019 (UTC)