DB Edwards I cannot thank you enough for taking the time and care to download these precious episodes of TWELVE O'CLOCK HIGH. I was eleven years old when I watched these when they first aired. Robert Lansing as Commander Savage was amazing. What an underrated talent! The show was exciting and compelling drama. I was hooked! It was the high point of my week and I lived to watch this. Couldn't wait for Friday nights on ABC. The memories are very dear. To be a kid again. You are golden in my book friend. Well done.
Yes, couldn't agree more. When I first discovered these, I instantly recalled the music. My Dad was shot down over Graz, taken as a POW, the only one to survive; he actually escaped after 6 mo.! Tail gunner, B24, 15th AF. We watched it with him as kids not comprehending at all what he had experienced, the awfulness of war, and had how remarkable he was, though he just "was doing what he was supposed to do."
Highway patrol rifleman 12 high were subs for my father was a bad man !never was home! I cry for my loss every day these movies rewire me from inside out why me to have no dad
The scene where the major was dressed down by the general, and his reaction afterwards, were very believable. I never received a verbal reprimand that bad, but I can assure you, any failure in the eyes of a commanding officer you respect is taken extremely personally and very hard.
Well Colonel. I Salute you're service. I'm a Retired Army 1SG. I once had a heated conversation with my Battalion Comander, an 05, LTC. I had over 6 years in the Brigade. 1SG for an HQ/ A Battery (about 200 soldiers). BDE Fueling section, Ammunition section etc. Then SGM position for an International Military Student Battalion. He denied my MSM and argued with me about duty and responsibility. Showed me an Award Recommendation, D.A. Form 638 with 5 pages of B.S. At that time I had 18 + years in the Army. I had 3 Army MSM's. 6 years without an Award? I told him that was B.S. The recommendation is/was supposed to stand on it's own. I even told him I had a hand written one. He told me to close the door, close the f@$king door. Proceeded to rip my Butt. I left, walked across the street to our BDE Headquarters. Talked to the BDE CSM. Told me not to worry about it. I received my MSM. The rest of the story is really good.
After almost 5 years in Germany, two Combat deployments, I wound at Fort Bliss Headquarters. Ready to retire, worked as Installation Duty Officer. My office was down the hall from the Garrison Commander. An 06 now. The CG was my 1st Battery Commander at Fort Lewis, 9th Infantry Division. He would come into my Office every morning for coffee. Talk about soldiers and officers we worked with. Really made the Colenel stew. Then he tried to be my best friend.
@@jstetzer01 You can't pick your parents or your COs. I was a Fuels officer in the USAF for four years, assigned to CENTCOM. My bosses were all Army Loggies. I got along fine with them and the Marines (there were one or two Navy and AF officers I had issues with). One of the Army officers became a very close friend, and we still stay in touch. If it's any consolation, my last tour was at the Pentagon - six years! I had to fight to get the award I thought I had earned. They didn't want to do it, so I said, "Then don't give me anything; I'm retiring". They changed their minds and I got it. Sometimes people who don't know you or like you are unwilling to put in the extra effort required, so you have to fight for it. It was the only time I did.
@@Paladin1873 Thanks for your reply. I wasn't whining for sure. Just fought for what I deserved. My retirement award was another fiasco. I didn't fight for that. Told them I'd use it for "toilet paper ", A Brigade and Battalion Staff got into some Hot Water. That's another conversation. I did my 23 years. Another 8 as an Army Civilian Instructor. Left as Training Supervisor GS 12. Happy with that. 😎
@@jstetzer01 Like everyone else, I was offered a beltway job, but decided instead to get as far from DC as possible. I moved my family to a mountain in Montana 13 years ago. Been happy ever since.
@@HonoredGeneral It's a good read. He served on Guadalcanal and with the Marauders. He was a competitive shooter before the war and took his scoped Springfield rifle with him to use in a scout/sniper role. Because of his interest in shooting, he goes into a fair amount of detail describing the advantages and disadvantages of the arms used by the US and the Imperial Japanese Army.
15:39. He had aborted flights in a number of cases, and he did not fly far enough or long enough for the aborts to be counted as missions--as set forth by Army rules. So, he really didn't have 25 missions.
What a truly AMAZING aeroplane the B17 was. The 1st choice, above the Mosquito, for low level precision bombing. Preferred, above the Spitfire, for photo-reconnaisance. It even does a better job than Coastal Commands Catalinas & Sunderlands for Air-Sea Rescue searches. And better than a Lancaster at delivering blockbusters. But, of course, we know from US media sources that the RAF took very little part in fighting WW2. It was really nice of the Yanks to allow us Brits to sit out the war with our feet up, supping tea. But we weren't totally idle as we were being summoned to the occasional planning meeting.
Kimdino1 Well, at least our TV series didn’t have the audacity to claim the Dam Buster raids for the 8AF (I hope). Seriously, it’s too bad we Yanks tend to under-appreciate the efforts of Bomber Command and Coastal Command; although we used to read a lot about Fighter Command’s exploits in 1940.
@Philip Freeman The USAAF actually did use the Mosquito, though not in the numbers the RAF did. I think all of ours were recce birds. We had other aircraft capable of performing missions like the Mosquito. The USAAF also flew Spits until P-47s and P-51s were available in numbers.
@Philip Freeman My drafting instructor at Georgia Tech was an English gentlemen who worked on the original Mosquito development project. His specialty was propeller design. We would ask him about the plane and he would tell us what a wonderful machine it was. Nobody disputes this. But you're asking about tactical employment, which is a whole different topic. Though I've read books on the Mossy and the Fort, I'm not well enough versed to offer a definitive answer to your question. All I can do is make some educated guesses, which others may disagree with. My first thought is this, if the Mossy was superior to the B-17, then it must have been roughly equivalent to the Lancaster, so why didn't the the RAF use it instead of the Lanc? I suspect one reason is that the Mossy was not an easy plane to manufacture. It required great woodworking skill, and such talent was hard to recruit and to train, so the production capacity would have been limited. Rolls Royce Merlin engines were in very great demand for a number of aircraft types, so production was likely at maximum output. Another factor is the Mossy's greatest asset, speed, comes with a high price tag. The faster you go, the more gas you burn; the more gas you burn, the shorter your combat range becomes. Theoretically the Mossy could carry as much as a B-17 over long range, but not on short range missions. It simply lacked the physical space required for the extra bombs. Close-knit formation flying to a target would deprive the Mossy of maneuverability. Under this arrangement it would be helpless against fighters since it had no top, bottom, side, or rear firing guns to provide interlocking fire. This made it unsuited for saturation missions. As the war progressed, the USAAF and RAF sorted out which mission types best suited each aircraft type. In the case of the Mossy, it proved to be a great raider, recce, pathfinder, and night-fighter. By mid and late 1944, more specialized aircraft like the purpose-built P-61 Black Widow night fighter and the A-26 Invader attack bomber were entering the air war and proving themselves more capable at these missions (from a USAAF perspective). There may be other factors I've overlooked, but these were my first thoughts. Regarding the Ploesti oil refineries, I had a good friend who was a B-24 waist gunner on the first large scale raid (Operation Tidal Wave). His plane was hit and crash-landed in Turkey, where the surviving crew were interned until the OSS could arrange their "escape". I later read a book he loaned me about the raid. There were multiple attempts to take out the refineries, oil fields, marshaling yards, and pipelines. Normally B-24s and/or B-17s were used, but one daring raid was carried out by P-38s carrying 1000 lb bombs. It was a costly failure. Oil production and distribution systems are very hard to knock out and they are even harder to keep knocked out. Like railroads and bridges, the enemy has an irritating tendency to repair them, and rather quickly at that.
More real, at least than that ridiculous accent he affects--jeez! what is that? Supposed to be Southern? Worse than Peter Fonda and Roddy McDowell rolled together! Whoever told these clods they were good at accents?
A B-24 named Hell's Wench went down on the August 1943 Ploesti raid. Lt Co Addison Baker and Major John Jerstad, were at the controls and were both awarded the MOH for their heroism during the mission.
Damn straight its famous,and heroic! My Father had been through hellin Europe from Normandy to the Elbe river....he was getting prepared to go invade Japan.....Millions of lives saved!! Including my father and ME !!! @@HansDelbruck53
The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet was a German rocket-powered interceptor It had no undercarriage except for take off, the wheels were dropped as soon as the aircraft left the ground, it was very unreliable and many blew up, very few survived a landing in them... ruclips.net/video/jG2eJdbkehw/видео.html NOT the 262. The jet engine by the way was invented by a Brit name of Frank Whittle, who published his work in a magazine and the Brits didn't like the idea, heither did the Americans, the Germans on the other hand then went and build the jet that you mention. Oh there is no such thing as a 282 either, so I guess that was just a typing error
I've only seen him in this, and The Bridge at Remagen, in which he was a cowardly battalion commander who kept volunteering his men for dangerous missions but then not leading them. At first glance in this one, I thought it was Rip Torn, who resembled him when he was younger.
@@michaeldorosh5047 Maybe I was being too hard on Dillman; he can really play the part. I think Rip Torn was in another episode and the show Combat as well.
Ehmm. "The gunners brought extra ammunition". The ship commander, maj. parson is still responcible, as well as his crew chief, his flight engineer. But PIC is #1 man on totem pole of repsoncibility. Extra ammunition would have added to his CG calculation of weight and distribution. He took off with aircraft heavier then in his paperwork. Going by real world standard. There is discipline case for maj. parsons, his crew gunners, his co-pilot (who does his own weight and balance for verifircation), and his flight engineer. As bringing almost 1/2 ton of additional weight on board is WTF moment. 1/2 ton is 1000 lb. Parons took of with 800 additional lbs on already borderline weight aircraft.
Wouldn't is make more sense to borrow a Mosquito from the Brits? Or ask the Brits if they can do it themselves? They had a lot more experience at night bombing in the ETO than we (US) did. This is exactly the kind of missions the Mosquito was designed for.
mac mac neill If I understand it, flying combat was volunteer at start of war, then became involuntary -- filled with draftees ....for obvious reasons.
That was the policy, but it didn't matter if the Army could force or blackmail personnel to fly beyond that. The military has now dropped that pretense and can force personnel to fly (even past their separation date) until they're dead or the military feels generous enough to let them go.
Leadership, humility, personal responsibility, character, these are the attributes that we should aspire to and none of which are possessed by DJT or the MAGA movement.
The Memphis Belle was that bomber that made history and thanks to our nation this airplane is located off a highway in Memphis tenessee and there you will find it.
Question????????Why do they drink so much???????They should have been dropping alcohol with parachutists to the enemy so the marines and army could have had it easier when the enemy was drunk.
Typical Hollywood crap. This guy would have been ordered on the mission and told to put his big boy pants on. Court martial wouldn't have been put off. Bailed out and within a few days shows back up in England. Typical Hollywood BS.
The RAF didn't do night-time saturation bombing they did night-time precision bombing. The Saturation stuff was the US province and they flew daytime missions because they used to get lost flying at night.
please do some research - raf daylight bombing at the start of the war was extremely inaccurate so they gave up in favour of night time bombing... raf air marshall "bomber harris" introduced night time saturation raids in 1942... the usaaf did precision daylight bombing and were successful at it...
a court marshal after the major risked his life and for being a hero....the kernel gets two thumbs down for that call....no wonder I never liked this new kernel. his predecessor was better in every way.
Just one disappointment .. for a period film the 1960's hairstyles and makeup of the ladies seems a bit out of place to portray the 1940's , it's a total give away !!
Youser 😅. .. didn't make it back 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅 Clever Germans😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅........ Brit pathfinders were radar invisible...... wooden Mosquitos,... Sunshine 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
Got to be the best show I've ever seen - "whatever the General says !'
‘This was one of the best so far! I like seeing the young Tom Skerrit. Still hanging in there the start of a long career.
DB Edwards
I cannot thank you enough for taking the time and care to download these precious episodes of TWELVE O'CLOCK HIGH. I was eleven years old when I watched these when they first aired. Robert Lansing as Commander Savage was amazing. What an underrated talent! The show was exciting and compelling drama. I was hooked! It was the high point of my week and I lived to watch this. Couldn't wait for Friday nights on ABC. The memories are very dear. To be a kid again. You are golden in my book friend. Well done.
Yes, couldn't agree more. When I first discovered these, I instantly recalled the music. My Dad was shot down over Graz, taken as a POW, the only one to survive; he actually escaped after 6 mo.! Tail gunner, B24, 15th AF. We watched it with him as kids not comprehending at all what he had experienced, the awfulness of war, and had how remarkable he was, though he just "was doing what he was supposed to do."
Highway patrol rifleman 12 high were subs for my father was a bad man !never was home! I cry for my loss every day these movies rewire me from inside out why me to have no dad
Don Galloway and Brafford Dillman are always great as character actors.
The scene where the major was dressed down by the general, and his reaction afterwards, were very believable. I never received a verbal reprimand that bad, but I can assure you, any failure in the eyes of a commanding officer you respect is taken extremely personally and very hard.
Well Colonel. I Salute you're service. I'm a Retired Army 1SG. I once had a heated conversation with my Battalion Comander, an 05, LTC. I had over 6 years in the Brigade. 1SG for an HQ/ A Battery (about 200 soldiers). BDE Fueling section, Ammunition section etc. Then SGM position for an International Military Student Battalion. He denied my MSM and argued with me about duty and responsibility. Showed me an Award Recommendation, D.A. Form 638 with 5 pages of B.S. At that time I had 18 + years in the Army. I had 3 Army MSM's. 6 years without an Award? I told him that was B.S. The recommendation is/was supposed to stand on it's own. I even told him I had a hand written one. He told me to close the door, close the f@$king door. Proceeded to rip my Butt. I left, walked across the street to our BDE Headquarters. Talked to the BDE CSM. Told me not to worry about it. I received my MSM. The rest of the story is really good.
After almost 5 years in Germany, two Combat deployments, I wound at Fort Bliss Headquarters. Ready to retire, worked as Installation Duty Officer. My office was down the hall from the Garrison Commander. An 06 now. The CG was my 1st Battery Commander at Fort Lewis, 9th Infantry Division. He would come into my Office every morning for coffee. Talk about soldiers and officers we worked with. Really made the Colenel stew. Then he tried to be my best friend.
@@jstetzer01 You can't pick your parents or your COs. I was a Fuels officer in the USAF for four years, assigned to CENTCOM. My bosses were all Army Loggies. I got along fine with them and the Marines (there were one or two Navy and AF officers I had issues with). One of the Army officers became a very close friend, and we still stay in touch. If it's any consolation, my last tour was at the Pentagon - six years! I had to fight to get the award I thought I had earned. They didn't want to do it, so I said, "Then don't give me anything; I'm retiring". They changed their minds and I got it. Sometimes people who don't know you or like you are unwilling to put in the extra effort required, so you have to fight for it. It was the only time I did.
@@Paladin1873 Thanks for your reply. I wasn't whining for sure. Just fought for what I deserved. My retirement award was another fiasco. I didn't fight for that. Told them I'd use it for "toilet paper ", A Brigade and Battalion Staff got into some Hot Water. That's another conversation. I did my 23 years. Another 8 as an Army Civilian Instructor. Left as Training Supervisor GS 12. Happy with that. 😎
@@jstetzer01 Like everyone else, I was offered a beltway job, but decided instead to get as far from DC as possible. I moved my family to a mountain in Montana 13 years ago. Been happy ever since.
lol Bruce Dern practicing his character for "Silent Running"... "Major, why are you wearing a Captain's jacket?"
Another great episode.
Andrew Duggan was a BadAss!!!
He made a very believable general even when the stories were hokey. That's good acting.
@@Paladin1873 he was also a stage actor before he did films. Best role for me, the medical officer in "Merrill's Marauders"
@@HonoredGeneral I saw that movie as a kid. Have you ever read "Shots fired in Anger" by LTC John B. George?
@@Paladin1873 I cannot say that I have.
but will have to look it up.
@@HonoredGeneral It's a good read. He served on Guadalcanal and with the Marauders. He was a competitive shooter before the war and took his scoped Springfield rifle with him to use in a scout/sniper role. Because of his interest in shooting, he goes into a fair amount of detail describing the advantages and disadvantages of the arms used by the US and the Imperial Japanese Army.
The Memphis belle is undergoing restoration at the USAF museum in Dayton, Ohio.
Great Work Don Gallaway he played on Ironside
Love this show keeps it on you tube
good Episode!
Looking back at various roles, I realize that bradford dillman characters were always Prats
Low level precision marking at night ? Standard routine for the RAF pathfinders.
Precisely! The job that they were TRAINED for!
@@HonoredGeneral ]]p]ppp
Excellent! 🎉🎉🎉
15:39. He had aborted flights in a number of cases, and he did not fly far enough or long enough for the aborts to be counted as missions--as set forth by Army rules. So, he really didn't have 25 missions.
I grew up watching this show. That and Combat. Damn! That was when TV was TV. What the Hell happened?
Why is Andrew Dugan listed as a Guest Star in almost every episode? Wouldn't that make him a Regular Cast Member?
What a truly AMAZING aeroplane the B17 was. The 1st choice, above the Mosquito, for low level precision bombing. Preferred, above the Spitfire, for photo-reconnaisance. It even does a better job than Coastal Commands Catalinas & Sunderlands for Air-Sea Rescue searches. And better than a Lancaster at delivering blockbusters.
But, of course, we know from US media sources that the RAF took very little part in fighting WW2. It was really nice of the Yanks to allow us Brits to sit out the war with our feet up, supping tea. But we weren't totally idle as we were being summoned to the occasional planning meeting.
Kimdino1 Well, at least our TV series didn’t have the audacity to claim the Dam Buster raids for the 8AF (I hope).
Seriously, it’s too bad we Yanks tend to under-appreciate the efforts of Bomber Command and Coastal Command; although we used to read a lot about Fighter Command’s exploits in 1940.
@Philip Freeman The USAAF actually did use the Mosquito, though not in the numbers the RAF did. I think all of ours were recce birds. We had other aircraft capable of performing missions like the Mosquito. The USAAF also flew Spits until P-47s and P-51s were available in numbers.
@Philip Freeman My drafting instructor at Georgia Tech was an English gentlemen who worked on the original Mosquito development project. His specialty was propeller design. We would ask him about the plane and he would tell us what a wonderful machine it was. Nobody disputes this. But you're asking about tactical employment, which is a whole different topic. Though I've read books on the Mossy and the Fort, I'm not well enough versed to offer a definitive answer to your question. All I can do is make some educated guesses, which others may disagree with. My first thought is this, if the Mossy was superior to the B-17, then it must have been roughly equivalent to the Lancaster, so why didn't the the RAF use it instead of the Lanc? I suspect one reason is that the Mossy was not an easy plane to manufacture. It required great woodworking skill, and such talent was hard to recruit and to train, so the production capacity would have been limited. Rolls Royce Merlin engines were in very great demand for a number of aircraft types, so production was likely at maximum output. Another factor is the Mossy's greatest asset, speed, comes with a high price tag. The faster you go, the more gas you burn; the more gas you burn, the shorter your combat range becomes. Theoretically the Mossy could carry as much as a B-17 over long range, but not on short range missions. It simply lacked the physical space required for the extra bombs. Close-knit formation flying to a target would deprive the Mossy of maneuverability. Under this arrangement it would be helpless against fighters since it had no top, bottom, side, or rear firing guns to provide interlocking fire. This made it unsuited for saturation missions. As the war progressed, the USAAF and RAF sorted out which mission types best suited each aircraft type. In the case of the Mossy, it proved to be a great raider, recce, pathfinder, and night-fighter. By mid and late 1944, more specialized aircraft like the purpose-built P-61 Black Widow night fighter and the A-26 Invader attack bomber were entering the air war and proving themselves more capable at these missions (from a USAAF perspective). There may be other factors I've overlooked, but these were my first thoughts.
Regarding the Ploesti oil refineries, I had a good friend who was a B-24 waist gunner on the first large scale raid (Operation Tidal Wave). His plane was hit and crash-landed in Turkey, where the surviving crew were interned until the OSS could arrange their "escape". I later read a book he loaned me about the raid. There were multiple attempts to take out the refineries, oil fields, marshaling yards, and pipelines. Normally B-24s and/or B-17s were used, but one daring raid was carried out by P-38s carrying 1000 lb bombs. It was a costly failure. Oil production and distribution systems are very hard to knock out and they are even harder to keep knocked out. Like railroads and bridges, the enemy has an irritating tendency to repair them, and rather quickly at that.
@@Paladin1873 Fine analysis, many thanks for this!
@@HonoredGeneral You are welcome.
And then the hot 60ties fashion women can have the 40ties fly men. What I´m saying is all the women in this series have 60ties fashion hair.
There must have been 5,000 mph winds to parachute at 1,600 ft. over Germany and end up in the Channel. What luck!
At 31.54 Bradford Dillman breaks wind -- now that's "realism"!
More real, at least than that ridiculous accent he affects--jeez! what is that? Supposed to be Southern? Worse than Peter Fonda and Roddy McDowell rolled together! Whoever told these clods they were good at accents?
Actually the first B-17 to make 25 missions was called Hells Angels but that name was thought too controversial for the Air Corp.
A B-24 named Hell's Wench went down on the August 1943 Ploesti raid. Lt Co Addison Baker and Major John Jerstad, were at the controls and were both awarded the MOH for their heroism during the mission.
Maybe the General could by me a drink. Or ten.
another famous plane was the enola gay. there was a miniseries with patrick duffy.
Or infamous
paul pisano really? I definitely didn't know that. Wouldn't you know it . Wonder if its on here somewhere?. Would like to see it.
ruclips.net/video/ZXyUPYPwWbg/видео.html
Damn straight its famous,and heroic! My Father had been through hellin Europe from Normandy to the Elbe river....he was getting prepared to go invade Japan.....Millions of lives saved!! Including my father and ME !!! @@HansDelbruck53
@@kevinp8212 May God Bless him, and you and yours!
Some of the shoulder patches have 48 stars, and some have 50 stars.
Yalza? Awesome.
At minute one...yalza...
This episode is about the German jet fighter, the Me-282.
The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet was a German rocket-powered interceptor It had no undercarriage except for take off, the wheels were dropped as soon as the aircraft left the ground, it was very unreliable and many blew up, very few survived a landing in them... ruclips.net/video/jG2eJdbkehw/видео.html NOT the 262. The jet engine by the way was invented by a Brit name of Frank Whittle, who published his work in a magazine and the Brits didn't like the idea, heither did the Americans, the Germans on the other hand then went and build the jet that you mention. Oh there is no such thing as a 282 either, so I guess that was just a typing error
I can't remember a role that Bradford Dillman ever played in which I liked him.
I've only seen him in this, and The Bridge at Remagen, in which he was a cowardly battalion commander who kept volunteering his men for dangerous missions but then not leading them. At first glance in this one, I thought it was Rip Torn, who resembled him when he was younger.
@@michaeldorosh5047 Maybe I was being too hard on Dillman; he can really play the part. I think Rip Torn was in another episode and the show Combat as well.
He DID play odd roles, for sure.
@@tomnekuda3818 Rip Torn was the BOMB! He was married to Geraldine Page, an awesome actress in her own right. Torn led a tumultous life, though.
@@HonoredGeneral Yah he actually almost strangled a guy to death on camera, and while the victim's kids were present
Tommy's girl really gets around?
3:30 OPENING THEME
Lighting the target was a job for the Mosquito. Why do they try to do every job with a B17?
@Allen Loser Too proud to ask the Brits for help.
Because you would have no show if they didn't! The 918 had to do EVERYTHING! lol!
they made a movie about the Memphis belle.
I saw the Movie. It was amazing!
Actually two movies.
They didn’t appreciate ptsd back in the day.
Ehmm. "The gunners brought extra ammunition". The ship commander, maj. parson is still responcible, as well as his crew chief, his flight engineer. But PIC is #1 man on totem pole of repsoncibility. Extra ammunition would have added to his CG calculation of weight and distribution. He took off with aircraft heavier then in his paperwork. Going by real world standard. There is discipline case for maj. parsons, his crew gunners, his co-pilot (who does his own weight and balance for verifircation), and his flight engineer. As bringing almost 1/2 ton of additional weight on board is WTF moment. 1/2 ton is 1000 lb. Parons took of with 800 additional lbs on already borderline weight aircraft.
45:31 CLOSING THEME
Wouldn't is make more sense to borrow a Mosquito from the Brits? Or ask the Brits if they can do it themselves? They had a lot more experience at night bombing in the ETO than we (US) did. This is exactly the kind of missions the Mosquito was designed for.
i thought that after the 25th mission they sent the crews home.
at first
later in the war
they moved the number up higher and higher
mac mac neill If I understand it, flying combat was volunteer at start of war, then became involuntary -- filled with draftees ....for obvious reasons.
besides in this episode there is a ? about if he was flying combat missions for a total of 25.
You're mostly right. That's what the public remembers, but at some point highers decided first 35 and in some operating theaters, higher than that!
That was the policy, but it didn't matter if the Army could force or blackmail personnel to fly beyond that. The military has now dropped that pretense and can force personnel to fly (even past their separation date) until they're dead or the military feels generous enough to let them go.
Antoinette Bower Number 12.
Friday August 20 - 2021.
Tom Skerrit , almost a regular ...
napalm bons were first introduced in 1947-8
Leadership, humility, personal responsibility, character, these are the attributes that we should aspire to and none of which are possessed by DJT or the MAGA movement.
The Memphis Belle was that bomber that made history and thanks to our nation this airplane is located off a highway in Memphis tenessee and there you will find it.
38:10 nice view
Question????????Why do they drink so much???????They should have been dropping alcohol with parachutists to the enemy so the marines and army could have had it easier when the enemy was drunk.
Howitzer Al Houlihan
Didn't General Savage fly 25 combat missions?
Marc Freedman Yeah...but Savage loved to fly and called his OWN shots....hated he got killed in season#2... episode#1 !!!
MORE than 25!!!
His name is "Called"???...oooooooo like LT. Calley???...
45:13 STING CHORDS
Typical Hollywood crap. This guy would have been ordered on the mission and told to put his big boy pants on. Court martial wouldn't have been put off. Bailed out and within a few days shows back up in England. Typical Hollywood BS.
Damn straight, Grow up, little man!
The RAF didn't do night-time saturation bombing they did night-time precision bombing. The Saturation stuff was the US province and they flew daytime missions because they used to get lost flying at night.
please do some research - raf daylight bombing at the start of the war was extremely inaccurate so they gave up in favour of night time bombing... raf air marshall "bomber harris" introduced night time saturation raids in 1942... the usaaf did precision daylight bombing and were successful at it...
@@23merlino I think the RAF went to night bombing because they were losing too many bombers during the day
Under Harris they sure as hell did, was kinda the whole point when came to large cities
Take a look at: Decision Over Schweinfurt: The U.S. 8th Air Force Battle for Daylight Bombing by Thomas M. Coffey.
Don’t those English girls have jobs?
a court marshal after the major risked his life and for being a hero....the kernel gets two thumbs down for that call....no wonder I never liked this new kernel. his predecessor was better in every way.
david snyder colonel
Just one disappointment .. for a period film the 1960's hairstyles and makeup of the ladies seems a bit out of place to portray the 1940's , it's a total give away !!
So
This is a great series apart from the 1960s clothes & hairstyles on all the women supposedly living in the war years.
Youser 😅. .. didn't make it back 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅 Clever Germans😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅........ Brit pathfinders were radar invisible...... wooden Mosquitos,... Sunshine 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
If this was suppose to be believable was were the fire trucks for this smoking plane on landing
KAMANSKY BACK in The COCK PIT with Joe Gallagher AGAIN 20:10 20:10
But Kamansky still had not paid his income taxes....
What is that accent supposed to be? It's awful.
Omg...what a cold war propaganda nonsense lol
bad writing. they had characters out of "character " in cringeworthy dialog. The good news, there were other writers,
closing parts were gay friendly in an avante garde style. Interesting for the 1964 bit.