USAF Museum Bf109 G10

[Dan O'Connell]

Originally Posted by Larry deZeng

It makes a difference to the director of the Museum. According to the comments he allegedly made and other evidence provided here by TOCH! members who were past visitors, the Museum doesn't give a hoot about accuracy and scholarship. But before we have the director and his staff boiled in oil or have the Museum shut down indefinitely, perhaps there are other issues involved that we don't know about such as budget limitations regarding restoration, directives from HQ USAF in Washington, morons running the place when the restoration was done many years ago, etc. If enough visitors wrote complaints about the mislabeling of their exhibits, it would eventually carry some weight and perhaps force changes in the way the place is run.

There are many people just like me who will gladly offer their time, expertise, money and "man power" to see that these artifacts are CORRECTLY displayed, at no cost to the museum or the tax payer. An artifact is presented as it's "type" and you only get one chance to get it right, before the errors start perpetuating themselves.

Hopefully, these exhibits will last for generations. It is inexcuseable to incorrectly display them.

I am a retired archaeologist. What damage would I cause, if in a tired and uncareing moment, or just plain spitefulness, I said an Oregon arrowhead was "Egyptian". I certainly would know it's untrue, but others later would say "see, here's proof, the Egyptians were in Oregon".

Absurd, yes, but we are dealing with history, and the hard won knowledge of a few serves to educate many, which is passed on. That's called a knowledge base.

We have so few of these "relics" left, that to an historian, or any person knowledgeable in the subject, it's practicaly criminal to pass on untruths.

It's even worse not to even care.