Error in July-Sept Arrow

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OK, so maybe it should've said shortly before the US entered WWII.
That date (which will live in infamy)  is only about 9 months later
Tom Cosgrove


NW Mailing List wrote:

> I just found a glaring error in the July - August - September 2008 Arrow.  The 

> last sentence of the first paragraph on page 8 says "It started with the popular 

> RS-1 that began production in March 1941, shortly before the outbreak of 

> World War I:"

>

> My sources tell me that World War I was fought from 1914 - 1918, so the RS-1 

> could not have been in production before WWI.  And it couldn't have been 

> before World War II either because WWII started in 1939!

>

> So there are two errors in one sentence.  It was not WWI and it was not before 

> WWII.  If I can trust the 1941 production date fot the ALCO RS-1 (and I'm not 

> sure that I can based on these errors) then the sentence should read "...after the 

> outbreak of World War II".

>

> Jerry Kay, Portsmouth, Virginia

>

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