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Wow. Just restored a bit of faith in humanity, there.

Touching. And very surprising.

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Time changes so much. I wonder, how long does it take for our viewpoints change enough that dereliction of duty to becomes heroism?

If, say, the USA went to war with Iran now, and some US pilot spared an Iranian plane - or land installation, as would be more likely - how much praise do you think they'd earn?

If only we could have the perspective of a few decades more when we look at our current times...

Canadians are polite. Even long before they find out they are Canadian.

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What 'never-before-seen-film'???

There's no film of this incident in this video, just drawings, some photos that are probably unrelated, and some people talking.

No footage of the event at all.

[nerd]That's a Bf 109 G6, 6./JG 27 -- 27th fighter wing, 2nd group, 6th squadron, 2nd plane.[/nerd]

poverty, malnutrition, and the resulting disease and despair... when we can feed the world, people will have time to be kinder to each other. Food is a hell of a drug!

I'm not trying to diminish the significance of this event, but "escorts American bomber to safety" (as the title states) is obviously not what happened.

Stigler: "I hope you make it."

Brown: "The pilot gave a salute and left."

I see it a little sideways from that. Warfare and the resulting poverty and malnutrition. When we get rid of the dictators and warlords we can feed the world. The majority of the starving people in the world live in places like North Korea and Africa where dictators and warlords use food, or rather the lack of it, as their most effective weapon and recruiting tool.

What makes this interesting is that compassion won over duty, which is one of the eternal dramas of mankind. See Antigone by Sophocles for what happens when you forget compassion in the pursuit of duty.

It is a shame that the title and description are misleading. They didn't have to be, since the video itself carries its weight just fine.

But if you do not lie profusely in the title no one will give the video a chance. This is TELEVISION PEOPLE !

You have to sell your product no matter what the cost to your own self decency !

I don't like this.
(1) There was no escort.
(2) There was no video.
(3) This is a (low quality) advertisement.
(4) The entire thing feels like glurge ( http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=glurge ). These guys might have killed many enemy airmen. Why show mercy at this point? Did the German fighter pilot make a habit of partially disabling planes and letting the crew fly home to pilot a new plane? Heck, that B-17 might have just gotten done bombing a German city.

War is such a terrible thing. This video makes me uneasy -- it makes it seem like there is honor, mercy, and order in a war in which tens of millions died horrible, anonymous deaths. This event is an exception that is contrary not just to the larger event, but to the morality of the very men involved.

It's like those photos of the happenstance cross in the WTC ruins.

That's the whole point. In a war bereft of honor or compassion, someone dared, for a moment, not to participate in the carnage and spared some lives. It doesn't glorify squat.

That depends entirely on who wins the war.

Do you think an American pilot would be celebrated for doing the same, even today?