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That too is quite common, one of the reasons for doing so was indeed propaganda. For example, the cutaway illustration of the bf109F which appeared in 'The Aeroplane' magazine in 1941, was drawn from a shot down belly-landed example. The Allies had a few in their possession and managed to piece together the wreckage of one or two in order to test fly them.
Clarke, the guy who drew that illustration, deliberately put on the details of the drawing that the cowling guns were '7.7mm' in calibre, when he knew very well they were really 7.92mm. Stuff like that was done to mislead the enemy into thinking that no intact examples of the aircraft had been recovered and tested should they examine a copy of the magazine, which they almost certainly would have done.
All very clever stuff, but sometimes confusing for historians!
Al
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Wiseman: When you removed the book from the cradle, did you speak the words?
Ash: Yeah, basically.
Wiseman: Did you speak the exact words?
Ash: Look, maybe I didn't say every single little tiny syllable, no. But basically I said them, yeah.
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