fastmongrel
1st Sergeant
Which would include uncorroborated 1st person testimony in books, I presume.
Yes memory is faulty and editors often miss things as well. I recently read an autobiography that contained several bloopers even though it had only been written in the 1960s 10 years after the fact. They were minor and only a history geek like myself would have spotted them but they were the sort of facts that would lead to flame wars and the banstick on this forum if they had involved WWII aircraft.