Don't believe everything you hear on the history channel. I remember watching a P-38 documentary and it listed in the description that it was a "Twin engined jet that helped win the war for the allies"
That, and a number of other things that make me roll my eyes and yell at the tv that they didn't get right, but could have been cured with a little bit of research.
Interestingly enough, my mother is really into this and she goes to see psychics and the like for information on her past lives, and she brought home the news that at one time I was a knight. With shining armor and the like, good thought but I call the psychics she sees as quacks. But..maybe that explains my deep loyalty to the chess piece that I play for on this game.