[chuck1945]

The comments about possibly losing part of the story when it is translated has a humorous sideline to me. Several months ago I got the Polish publisher Kagero's booklet on the F2A Buffalo. Kagero's format is to present the text in both Polish and English. The book starts with an account of the Buffalo flown by Marine pilots during the Battle of Midway. There is an extensive quote from one pilot's combat report which of course was originally written in English. The publisher had translated the report to Polish and then instead of reverting to the English version for the English text, translated the Polish back to English. Needless to say something was lost in the translation.