Mistakes in Oscar-nominated movies

Nominated for his performance in "Flight," Denzel Washington utters this factual error in the movie: "Dad was a pilot, he was 332nd Airborne, he was Tuskegee." The word "Airborne" should have been "Fighter Group." Airborne units were paratroopers, not fighter pilots. The 332nd, with its four squadrons, was the only black fighter group in the segregated U.S. Army Air Force in World War II.

Nominated for his performance in "Flight," Denzel Washington utters this factual error in the movie: "Dad was a pilot, he was 332nd Airborne, he was Tuskegee." The word "Airborne" should have been "Fighter Group." Airborne units were paratroopers, not fighter pilots. The 332nd, with its four squadrons, was the only black fighter group in the segregated U.S. Army Air Force in World War II.