That's what Fox News called it this morning. They were covering a decoration ceremony for some WWII Army Air Corps survivors. On missions over Germany their B17's got shot up and had to crash land in Switzerland. The Swiss "interned" them in conditions as harsh as a German POW camp. But since it was Switzerland, not Germany, the airmen were denied prisoner of war medals when WWII was over. Relatives worked long and hard to reverse this, and this morning the few airmen still alive were presented with their medals.
Aside from the Fox voiceover calling the B17 a fighter, all went well. How anyone could mistake the most famous American warplane, hero of movies such as Twelve o'Clock High, The War Lover, and Memphis Belle, as a fighter plane, reveals much about the shallowness of TV newsies. And this was on Fox, the best of 'em. Saints preserve us from what the bottom feeders like MSNBC are polluting the airwaves with.
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