Was Dan Snow right to lie about Spitfire pilots?

DAN SNOW is a historian, so why did he alter the facts of history when telling his young daughter about the role of women in World War II (Mail)? Female pilots played a vital role in the Air Transport Auxiliary during the war, so why claim they had a combat role? Surely it would have been better to explain that times have changed and women are now able to be combat pilots, as well as join lots of other professions previously closed to them. How can I believe anything Mr Snow presents as facts on TV after this?

JIM COATS, Newport, Shropshire.

RATHER than side with the politically correct movement, why doesn’t Dan Snow simply tell the truth? Seventy years ago, women were not permitted to see active service. However, they did have equally important roles to play and, indeed, many lost their lives as a result. Is he going to airbrush the Queen’s role as a mechanic in the Auxiliary Territorial Service?

L. GADSBY, Truro, Cornwall.

HAS Dan Snow jeopardised his TV career by admitting he lied to his daughter about women’s roles in the past?

M. F. MORLEY, aston, Oxon.

DAN SNOW’S daughter walked along a display of pictures of Spitfire pilots at an aviation museum saying: ‘Boy, boy, boy.’ The TV historian should take his family to a war cemetery and walk past the gravestones saying: ‘Boy, boy, boy.’

LYNDA SHAW, Littlehampton, W. Sussex.

TV HISTORIAN Dan Snow didn’t need to lie to his daughter about World War II fighter pilots being women. He could have told her about the Soviet ones!

LESLIE OLDFIELD, Buxton, Derbys.

IT WOULD have been better if Dan Snow had told his daughter about the women of the Air Transport Auxiliary who could fly anything from a Spitfire to a bomber.

BOB MCILROY, Bristol.

THE brave women of the war generation don’t need Dan Snow’s PC tall tales to tell the world how brave they were. Don’t denigrate what they achieved in the name of today’s snowflake mentality.

MICHAEL BENSON, London SE25.

USING examples of mythical women doing a mythical job is a bit redundant with Dan Snow’s knowledge of world history. He could have told his daughter about Cleopatra, Boudica, Joan of Arc, Elizabeth I, Florence Nightingale, Violette Szabo, Golda Meir, Indira Gandhi and Margaret Thatcher, to name just a few women of achievement who have helped change history.

CLIVE MIRAMS, Orlando, Florida.