Bush is pretty light with the pardon pen but at least he honored this guy even though he died years ago. The guy wasn't even Jewish as well.
In the summer of 1948, Winters, a Protestant from Boston who exported produce, worked with others to transfer two converted B-17 "Flying Fortresses" to Israel's defense forces. He personally flew one of the aircraft from Miami to Czechoslovakia, where that plane and a third B-17 were retrofitted for use as bombers.
He was sentenced to 18 months in prison and a $5000 fine. But if he didn't get a chance to send those bombers then there probably wouldn't be an Israel today.
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