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== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* [[Dainty Company]] was inspired by the real-life [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_Company%2C_506th_Infantry_Regiment_(United_States) Easy Company], known to popular culture as the Band of Brothers. During a visit to a pub in Oldbourne. [[writer]] [[Chris Chapman]] saw the framed minutes of a meeting held there by Easy Company shortly before their departure to [[France]]. Chapman used this as the basis for the story's setting and sought to explore how the American soldiers spent their last days in Britain before the invasion. ([[BFX]]: ''The Friendly Invasion'') In the story itself, one of the soldiers does make a quick reference to E Company. | * [[Dainty Company]] was inspired by the real-life [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_Company%2C_506th_Infantry_Regiment_(United_States) Easy Company], known to popular culture as the Band of Brothers. During a visit to a pub in Oldbourne. [[writer]] [[Chris Chapman]] saw the framed minutes of a meeting held there by Easy Company shortly before their departure to [[France]]. Chapman used this as the basis for the story's setting and sought to explore how the American soldiers spent their last days in Britain before the invasion. ([[BFX]]: ''The Friendly Invasion'') In the story itself, one of the soldiers does make a quick reference to E Company. | ||
* Despite the synopsis claiming the story takes place in [[1943]], the dialogue explicitly dates the story to [[4 June]] [[1944]], just ahead of the [[D-Day]] [[Normandy landings|landings]]. The one reference to 1943 in the story is as the [[year]] of Dainty Company's formation. | * Despite the synopsis claiming the story takes place in [[1943]], the dialogue explicitly dates the story to [[4 June]] [[1944]], just ahead of the [[D-Day]] [[Normandy landings|landings]]. The one reference to 1943 in the story is as the [[year]] of Dainty Company's formation. | ||
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== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
* The Doctor was drawn to Westbourne to investigate traces of [[zygma energy]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)|The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]'') | |||
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== External links == | == External links == | ||