The Daily Mail gets it wrong "shocker"

A fact I enjoy boring my friends with is that Bushy Park in South West London was home to the US Army Air Corps (the precursor to the US Air Force) during the Second World War. The Camp was named Camp Griffiss in honour of Lieutenant colonel Townsend Griffiss who had the misfortune to be the first U.S. airman to be killed in the line of duty in the European Theater in World War II. The Daily Mail did a profile on him earlier this year and at the bottom of the article is an aerial shot of Camp Griffiss in Teddington's Bushy Park.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2101882/Revealed--70-years-The-forgotten-hero-U-S-air-force-officer-killed-Europe-World-War-II.html

Except, the photo has a dirty great runway through the middle of it, and I was pretty sure Bushy Park never had a runway. Sure enough, it appears that the Daily Mail used a photo of Griffiss Air Force Base in Rome, New York, and not Camp Griffiss in Teddington, Middlesex.

Photo reproduced by the Daily Mail incorrectly placing Griffiss Air Force Base in West London rather than upstate New York

Even more embarrassingly, the Daily Mail managed to identify it correctly as Griffiss AFB, but incorrectly located it in West London rather than it's actual location of Upstate New York. I expect to see the odd inaccuracy creep into newspaper articles, and I can understand how 'Camp Griffiss' and 'Griffiss AFB' could be mixed up, but surely the suggestion that a runway the same size as one of Heathrow's, was located on the Thames, next to Hampton Court, should have have been worth a quick fact check?