>> well, that pilot's name was
noah thompson --
>> right.
>> -- who was a farmer from new
hampshire.
and his roommate in the eighth
air force and best friend named
dan dennis, his b-17 was shot
down over the eastern part of
germany during the war.
and dennis was, when he landed,
was beaten to death by the
farmers in the area.
this was very common.
people don't like the people who
bombed them.
and many pilots were beaten to
death that way.
and, in fact, if you remember or
check out that's what happened
to john mccain over hanoi.
he came down in what amounts to
the central park of hanoi, and
the people were drowning him.
he came down in a lake, were
drowning him when police and
north vietnamese soldiers came
and pulled him away from them.
so that suddenly noah thompson
knows the exact spot where his
friend was slaughtered and is