It would be nice if they made tv shows like this now. Real acting, great story lines, and all around great show. Watched this when I was a kid it was one of my favorite shows' It would have been better with Robert Lansing for all three seasons.
Sensational episode, with great acting from both guest stars. Elen Willard guest starred in four episodes of Twelve O'Clock High. According to Earl Holliman, "she had quit acting because it was such an emotionally painful experience for her." I think that incredible emotional involvement in her role is evident in this episode. When you watch her, you think she is speaking as if this is her real life. Holliman, who obviously had a much longer and famed career, was also extremely effective here. Interestingly, he lied about his age to enlist in the navy in WWII. He was thrown out when they discovered he was not of age (he was only born in 1928), but later re-enlisted in the navy. He never married or had kids and is still kicking at age 92.
Yes. Also The Twilight Zone episode, "Where Is Everybody?" (1959). I try to fit-in that episode once a week and Forbidden Planet (1956) every month or so.
All these arm chair pilots don't realize how fast they made these episodes.great stock footage hard to come by.they did a great job with the footage and time they had.
Steve Rivinius, I fully agree. I've read some of the armchair quarterback's comments, too, and since nearly every B-17 built during the war has long since been cut up for Toyotas and there are only a handful of Mustangs, FW-150, ME-110's or any other aircraft from that period left, this is STILL far better than the CRAP we get now using CGI! Those negative Nelly's need to stop watching or accept the fact that these are stories created 20+ years after the war and very little stock film survived.
There was no time for bickering . You had a mission to fly and you flew it . End of story . Great series . Looks inside of personal differences and conflict . Thank you . Not much room at 15000 ft for a squabble . Thank you .
T.R. Freeman Watch the War Lover. The CO is ex RAF. He wears RAF wings on his left breast. I should have pointed out that not all Americans ex-RAFers did that.
I remember Earl Holliman mostly from his portrayal of Sundance in the TV series "Hotel de Paree." He is 94 years old and presently living in Studio City, CA.
Beloved, famous and well known Canadian actor, comedian TV and radio personality Don Harron. Later known by his own self made character, "Charlie Farquarson", extremely funny and memorable as an extremely ridiculous, "Canadian Historian" of countless inaccuracies.
A woman is but a woman but a P51 is a fine aircraft. Some of the best marriages were made in wartime....fast. My parents were that way....they married just as Dad was shipping out to the Pacific in WWII. I think that he saw every island on the way to Japan and built the runways and kept planes running. Their marriage was good and lasted until they both passed away. Two brothers and myself.....Mom and Dad were 90 and 94 when they died.
@Carol Young Thanks for the reply. It seems that wartime cuts thru a lot of the indecision and external fluff and focuses people on what is truly important......there were a lot of good marriages made under those conditions.
@@tomnekuda3818 My folks eloped on Dec 8th, went to Nevada, and Dad shipped out about 2 months later. Older Brother born in Sept 1942, but I was not born until 1946. There was a war inbetween, and soon we were 5 kids, and Mom died in 2012, Dad in 2014. She was his one and only, as was he for her. Both buried in Eagle point Ore. Veterans Cemetery.
@@siseley1 Sounds like a good family to grow up in.....very similar to mine. Dad and Mom are buried in the Black Hills National Cemetery near Spearfish. A beautiful, pine-scented valley. Was up in your country about 30+ years ago.....really good country.
The more I see of Frank Overton, he would have been the perfect Dr McCoy on Star Trek. Except for the fact that he was close to a foot taller than the Shat.
Fantastic, it is very educational, General Crowe and General Frank Savage , I do not know anyone, who could explain the Airforce terms and conditions as they do.
There were 7 Flyers from the USA who enlisted to fly with the Brits before Pearl Harbor. I used to work with Charlie Shaw. Charlie was from St. Louis, Mo and he went to Toronto and enlisted in the Canadian RAF and flew fighters in the Battle of Britain. After Pearl he resigned and joined the US Army Air Corp and trained as a Bomber. Stationed in England he piloted Bombers against Germany and became pals with an inexperienced older pilot named Clark Gable. Shot down over Germany he tried to escape and was placed in a camp and instead of hanging out with his American friends he hung out with the Brits many of whom he served with in the skies over London. He got involved as the only American in the Great Escape and he was played by Steve McQueen in the movie. He never got a chance as the Germans stopped the escape too soon. A few months later he walked away from a work detail and walked from Germany to Holland where he linked up with the Dutch underground. They got him back to our lines and then the war ended. These guys from WW2 have always been heros to me. RIP Charlie. You were a good guy. Charlie told me 1x he flew well over 100 missions flying both fighters and bombers.
one cool thing because of all the chip from WW2 those end up getting save forever so many of the movies clips from the battle field have been lost forever
Quinn Martin really knew how to make engaging dramas. Despite a few flaws in the stock footage (mustang changing to C to D model during shots) it keep me interested the entire 50 minutes.
That is similar to the scene in the Longest Day when the soldier won a bunch of money in a card game aboard a ship headed to Normandy. He felt as though his luck would run out during the landing. So he gave his money away.
I noticed that too. Supposedly, this timeframe in the series was early in the war. When did P-51's arrive? Also if this was early, the plane had the less than ideal Allison engines and later the RR Merlin appeared with much higher, impossible to match performance. Not nit picking. I still enjoyed this episode a great deal.
I Have to have a wry smile when someone comes up with a cockamamy mission plan that is suicidal or impossible, and low and behold General Savage volunteers himself, the group or another individual, and it doesn’t matter what anyone says he thinks he is invincible and/or dispensable, even if his superiors say he isn’t, he doesn’t consider the big picture even though he expects everyone else to.
Silly stock footage people. that p51 that they used for the bomb run was a A-24 packard engine dive bomber package. first thought it was a b or c but it had the oil cooler on top of the nose. thats a packard.
Realistically, the dam was a job for a De Havilland Mosquito. It had close to the speed and maneuverability of the P51, with a much greater bomb payload and range. It was actually used for similar jobs.
@@adameckard4591 the P47 didn't have the speed. The forward momentum of a bomb that is dropped to fly horizontal such as to destroy a dam imparts more energy the faster it is traveling.
Elen Willard also played in a similar ONE STEP BEYOND episode a women who is arrested because of her premonition in TO KNOW THE END, a very good story about a real case. ( also on RUclips )
good episode, however I thought it strange that she would announce to everyone that he won BEFORE she told him, as maybe he wouldn't want others to know (I wouldn't). It should havw been his choice to tell other people, not her
@@TheFishdoctor1952 Really? Exactly what nit are you accusing me of picking and what is it you suppose I'm ignorant of? Try and be specific. Unless of course that's impossible because your comment is bullshit and motivated by something other than what you said. Edit: And what might that be fishy doctor...?
The producers may have had some good stock footage, but they could've at least kept the same model Mustang in the picture. First they show a later model (P-51 D?) with a shiny aluminum skin and full canopy then switch to an earlier model with a painted skin and the non-rear view canopy......it's obvious! Sorry, that really bugs me even after all these years.....
That's nothing, I was watching an episode of Highway Patrol where Dan Mathews was going on a call starting out in a '57 Buick 4 dr hardtop, then it showed him in a '56 Mercury 2 dr, and when he arrived he was in a "55 Buick 2 dr. All these shows just used stock footage to fill in the 2-3 second gaps. The Rockford Files have used footage with 2-3 different year Firebirds in the same episode. It is just entertainment. I am thankful they have these shows on to where we can all enjoy them.
I do love this series but sometimes they always put in the impossible. Paul Burke always getting shot down and live to tell the tale or in this case breaching dams. The RAF had to use specially modified Lancaster's to fly at 60ft with bouncing bombs to breach two dams: a '51 with two 500lbs wouldn't make a dent..... still, a great program and a big thanks for uploading :-)
ABC wanted a younger looking actor to play the lead. The funny thing is that Burke is older than Lansing. also, Burke had a track record as a TV star. He won an Emmy for a cop show, the Naked City, I think. ABC also took some of the adult out of the show to attract boys and moved it to an earlier time slot.
I think it was much more than that.If the Germans cotrolled the dams, they could flood the valley. That was a concern of the allies in the invasion. Elecriity was secondary, I think....
We are supposed to believe that this is taking place in early 1943... right...? The P-51D model (with the bubble canopy) didn't come around until April 1944...
This was a great episode! But in my opinion Savage was wrong to deny him the right to marry his girl. I would've told him "Throw me in the brig if you want, but unless you let us get married I won't fly this mission." But 'all's well that ends well.' And £20,000 in the early 1940s would equal almost $400,000 or so in 2024. I'm not sure that he was "rich" but I guess he WAS fairly well off! Pounds were more valuable against the dollar back then. England kinda hit the shoals somewhere - economically speaking.
Yes D-day was bad, then came daylight bombing over the European occupied by Germans, many men lost, and people especially the infantry thought we had it made, we fought, jumped, escaped and most did not make it!
@@TheFishdoctor1952, not only would we lose the war, we'd be laughed off the planet for trying to fight a war like that with "men" that don't even know what gender they are and are more concerned about whether their purses match their shoes or outfit! It's a miracle that we have enough real men left to even staff the military we now have.
Sorry, SlimJim, but the name was officially changed to United States Army Air Forces on June 20, 1941. Google it, and check for yourself. By the way, there is no typo in the name, it was Army Air Forces (plural).
Thanks Dan, learn something new every day. Then I heard some one say you learn something new every day and forget two things every day. At that rate I'll be an idiot by the weekend!
Yeah well rules were made to be broken weren't they. Just ask Savage, or, in reality, pretty much any WWII bomber crew. Compared to flak and fighters... the risk was very low indeed. I understand that B-29s even had built in ashtrays.
A moment of decision that we all have to face at least once in our lives that will determine our destiny forever. Mine was receiving Jesus Christ as the Lord and Savior of my spirit, soul and body; The sacrificial Lamb of God who washed away my sins and saved me from eternal damnation by His divine blood through the power Holy Spirit, who dwells in me forever. I run this race knowing I made the greatest decision of my life on earth.
During the Nuremberg trials German soldiers were convicted of war crimes for blowing up dams in Holland. Yet, in Korea, American flyers were given medals for blowing up dams in North Korea.
No. Army Air Corps became the US Army Air Force I believe in 43. It is my impression as well that USAAF personnel referred to themselves as "air force" anyway.
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It would be nice if they made tv shows like this now. Real acting, great story lines, and all around great show. Watched this when I was a kid it was one of my favorite shows' It would have been better with Robert Lansing for all three seasons.
Sensational episode, with great acting from both guest stars. Elen Willard guest starred in four episodes of Twelve O'Clock High. According to Earl Holliman, "she had quit acting because it was such an emotionally painful experience for her." I think that incredible emotional involvement in her role is evident in this episode. When you watch her, you think she is speaking as if this is her real life. Holliman, who obviously had a much longer and famed career, was also extremely effective here. Interestingly, he lied about his age to enlist in the navy in WWII. He was thrown out when they discovered he was not of age (he was only born in 1928), but later re-enlisted in the navy. He never married or had kids and is still kicking at age 92.
Yes, great actor, also Chris Robinson, SGT Komanski is still alive he was Gallagher's Engineer / Top Turret Gunner.
@@lewiseberhart2871 He was really good as Komansky. Just saw that he went on to be a soap-opera star for 3 decades, acting into his 60's. He's 83 now.
He's still alive and well at 96. As we Jews say, "Till 120."
I just want to thank you for uploading this series, I have been watching from the beginning. Excellent and much appreciated!
Wow - what an amazing episode.
So glad it had a happy ending.
Money can ruin everything and it does change people.
Wonderful episode with Earl Holliman. I first saw him in the SCI FI film Forbidden Planet.
Yes. Also The Twilight Zone episode, "Where Is Everybody?" (1959). I try to fit-in that episode once a week and Forbidden Planet (1956) every month or so.
just a side bar Earl Holliman had a dinner playhouse here in San Antonio once upon a time
All these arm chair pilots don't realize how fast they made these episodes.great stock footage hard to come by.they did a great job with the footage and time they had.
Steve Rivinius, I fully agree. I've read some of the armchair quarterback's comments, too, and since nearly every B-17 built during the war has long since been cut up for Toyotas and there are only a handful of Mustangs, FW-150, ME-110's or any other aircraft from that period left, this is STILL far better than the CRAP we get now using CGI! Those negative Nelly's need to stop watching or accept the fact that these are stories created 20+ years after the war and very little stock film survived.
I agree completely.
Stock footage was and is voluminous. Hard to come by ?
It's remarkable how good those scripts were!
Another great episode of our USAAF men who put forth their lives and the service they performed.
One of my two favorite episodes plus the lovely Elen Willard. Plus seeing Savage smile at the end : a rarity ! =)
This is a great series.
There was no time for bickering . You had a mission to fly and you flew it . End of story . Great series
. Looks inside of personal differences and conflict . Thank you . Not much room at 15000 ft for a squabble . Thank you .
That is 1 of the best episodes
From 1945 to 1974 Hollywood could have cared less about details...we'll just have to enjoy the show as it is and it is a damn good one.
T.R. Freeman Watch the War Lover. The CO is ex RAF. He wears RAF wings on his left breast.
I should have pointed out that not all Americans ex-RAFers did that.
Love this show keep it on you tube
…"this is a big world, there is something in it for everyone..." what a great outlook on life...
Something each & everyone can apply, & absorb ! 🇺🇸
What a get show it was!!
Dam Busters , Hollywood stile . I like it ,good little TV drama . I love the series . Thank you .
Excellent picture with superb acting and directing!
Reeeeeally good episode...thanks for the upload!
Gezzz ...Earl Holliman ...Everybody is in this series !!! Oooop's boo boo ...at 40 mins , no bombs showing on the 51
Seen them all, Best episode ever. Thanks.
Thanks for up loading
Earl Hollimon still alive at 95 years old according to Google!!!! WOW!!!!
stunning story and actors !
I remember Earl Holliman mostly from his portrayal of Sundance in the TV series "Hotel de Paree." He is 94 years old and presently living in Studio City, CA.
He was an Elder brother with John Wayne
I remember him from Police Woman
Beloved, famous and well known Canadian actor, comedian TV and radio personality Don Harron. Later known by his own self made character, "Charlie Farquarson", extremely funny and memorable as an extremely ridiculous, "Canadian Historian" of countless inaccuracies.
American audiences may know him from Hee Haw, which featured the Charlie Farquarson character
One of the best!
A woman is but a woman but a P51 is a fine aircraft. Some of the best marriages were made in wartime....fast. My parents were that way....they married just as Dad was shipping out to the Pacific in WWII. I think that he saw every island on the way to Japan and built the runways and kept planes running. Their marriage was good and lasted until they both passed away. Two brothers and myself.....Mom and Dad were 90 and 94 when they died.
@Carol Young Thanks for the reply. It seems that wartime cuts thru a lot of the indecision and external fluff and focuses people on what is truly important......there were a lot of good marriages made under those conditions.
@@tomnekuda3818 My folks eloped on Dec 8th, went to Nevada, and Dad shipped out about 2 months later. Older Brother born in Sept 1942, but I was not born until 1946. There was a war inbetween, and soon we were 5 kids, and Mom died in 2012, Dad in 2014. She was his one and only, as was he for her. Both buried in Eagle point Ore. Veterans Cemetery.
@@siseley1 Sounds like a good family to grow up in.....very similar to mine. Dad and Mom are buried in the Black Hills National Cemetery near Spearfish. A beautiful, pine-scented valley. Was up in your country about 30+ years ago.....really good country.
Love that sound of the RR Merlin engine.
Yeah there's really nothing else quite like that. This episode would've been worthwhile for that alone.
No sound like
It was my favorite show at that time
Another great episode - thank you for making it available.
I liked the quote at the end.....serious but, said well and meant a lot!
I think this episode was one of Robert Lansing's best performances. He nailed the quote at the end.
The dam strike stock footage is from The Rains Came (1939)
I was just a boy when these were made,dont remember them,am 65 now.
The more I see of Frank Overton, he would have been the perfect Dr McCoy on Star Trek. Except for the fact that he was close to a foot taller than the Shat.
Fantastic, it is very educational, General Crowe and General Frank Savage , I do not know anyone, who could explain the Airforce terms and conditions as they do.
... I enlisted USAF Reserve at 17 in high school.
@@user-wp4zh6po3k TY FOR YOUR SERVICE!
Those were the good old days
You got that Ray, boy I wished I could go back in time myself
There were 7 Flyers from the USA who enlisted to fly with the Brits before Pearl Harbor. I used to work with Charlie Shaw. Charlie was from St. Louis, Mo and he went to Toronto and enlisted in the Canadian RAF and flew fighters in the Battle of Britain. After Pearl he resigned and joined the US Army Air Corp and trained as a Bomber. Stationed in England he piloted Bombers against Germany and became pals with an inexperienced older pilot named Clark Gable. Shot down over Germany he tried to escape and was placed in a camp and instead of hanging out with his American friends he hung out with the Brits many of whom he served with in the skies over London. He got involved as the only American in the Great Escape and he was played by Steve McQueen in the movie. He never got a chance as the Germans stopped the escape too soon. A few months later he walked away from a work detail and walked from Germany to Holland where he linked up with the Dutch underground. They got him back to our lines and then the war ended. These guys from WW2 have always been heros to me. RIP Charlie. You were a good guy. Charlie told me 1x he flew well over 100 missions flying both fighters and bombers.
General Frank Savage,was a great organiser, how good he would arrange!
Well, great actor .. Great Writers !! (p.s. We had eye candy back then too .. !)
Love how Savage has the custom cigarette pack pocket on his A-2 jacket.
He smoked even in the bomber. Noticed that.
Unfortunately it was the cause of Robert Lansing''s death. Lung cancer.
one cool thing because of all the chip from WW2 those end up getting save forever so many of the movies clips from the battle field have been lost forever
Quinn Martin really knew how to make engaging dramas. Despite a few flaws in the stock footage (mustang changing to C to D model during shots) it keep me interested the entire 50 minutes.
Andrew Kear, if you are watching only to nitpick the stories apart then I pity you as you must live a miserable life. LIGHTEN UP!
@@richardcline1337 Apparently you didn't comprehend Andrews statement.
Love the lotto vultures.
Holloman appeared in an early twilight zone episode...the only man alive on earth!
Great show
That is similar to the scene in the Longest Day when the soldier won a bunch of money in a card game aboard a ship
headed to Normandy. He felt as though his luck would run out during the landing. So he gave his money away.
He took off in a P-51 Mustang. The air footage during the run was of a P-47 Warhawk which was mainly flown in the South Pacific.
No, actually it was a P-51 A, B or C model. One can easily tell by the ventral intake for the radiator.
I noticed that too. Supposedly, this timeframe in the series was early in the war. When did P-51's arrive? Also if this was early, the plane had the less than ideal Allison engines and later the RR Merlin appeared with much higher, impossible to match performance. Not nit picking. I still enjoyed this episode a great deal.
He was very good in this and funny in the forbidden planet.
Now you really know where the trench run scene came from in Star Wars.
I Have to have a wry smile when someone comes up with a cockamamy mission plan that is suicidal or impossible, and low and behold General Savage volunteers himself, the group or another individual, and it doesn’t matter what anyone says he thinks he is invincible and/or dispensable, even if his superiors say he isn’t, he doesn’t consider the big picture even though he expects everyone else to.
Silly stock footage people. that p51 that they used for the bomb run was a A-24 packard engine dive bomber package. first thought it was a b or c but it had the oil cooler on top of the nose. thats a packard.
11:30 What he's got to come back to? 10 years he's gonna come back and get to star with Angie Dickenson.!!!
The P51 took off with no bombs on the wings?
They were tucked in real tight.😏
Realistically, the dam was a job for a De Havilland Mosquito. It had close to the speed and maneuverability of the P51, with a much greater bomb payload and range. It was actually used for similar jobs.
Or maybe a P 47
@@adameckard4591 the P47 didn't have the speed. The forward momentum of a bomb that is dropped to fly horizontal such as to destroy a dam imparts more energy the faster it is traveling.
The A1 Skyraider did it in Korea, and they were slower than the P47.
Elen Willard also played in a similar ONE STEP BEYOND episode a women who is arrested because of her premonition
in TO KNOW THE END, a very good story about a real case. ( also on RUclips )
General Savage Back to SMOKE SMOKE SMOKE THAT CIGARETTE
I noticed Earl Holliman's character who had prior service with isn't wearing RAF wings. it wasn't required but some ex-RAF types did in Real Life
... a barrel for each of my other generals ... historically accurate
Those idiots knocking him need to get an attitude adjustment. Their is a war going on and people get killed in war, it might even be you.
I know WHY No. 3 engine always goes! That's where the RED shirt Guy always sets!
Music
Star Trek reference - i got it!
good episode, however I thought it strange that she would announce to everyone that he won BEFORE she told him, as maybe he wouldn't want others to know (I wouldn't). It should havw been his choice to tell other people, not her
20.000 pounds back then was a gigantic fortune, in buying power it was something like three or four MILLION USA dollars today. Regards
Did anybody notice at 39:20 when he takes off for the mission? There ain't no bombs attached to the wings!
Pretty sure quite a few noticed. Many viewers aren't technical nitpicks and just focus on the story.
@@emansnas Kind of like YOU, nitpicking on things you might be too ignorant to notice.
@@TheFishdoctor1952 Really? Exactly what nit are you accusing me of picking and what is it you suppose I'm ignorant of? Try and be specific. Unless of course that's impossible because your comment is bullshit and motivated by something other than what you said. Edit: And what might that be fishy doctor...?
@@emansnas ....Sir, ignore them, we really like seeing things noticed. We ALL do.
At that time there was only two plains faster P - 38 and the ME - 262
FYI = 20,000 pounds at this time was equal to 80,600 (U.S.) dollars, which is equal to $1,280,000 today.
You're welcome.
Thank's Doug just put the cheque in the post will spend $1.279.000 on wine women and song and waste the rest
Thanks Doug! I was wondering what the big fuss was all about. 20K pounds just didn't seem like such a huge jackpot. Now it makes sense.
Thanks Doug - you answered my question.
phoenixXchannel Back then my mother made a few hundred $ a year.
This is 2023 and the British Pound is worth $1.24 American so double yer NUMBER!!
Sound of a parkard built Merlin engine
All these nit-picky comments about technicalities. Just be glad you can even watch this.
To right no real need to be smart arsed its great to see this thank's to the person who posted it
but some are pretty bad. The B-17 could fly on ONE engine, actually. Three would be great!
Amen!
I'm grateful to be able to watch all these episodes that have been posted
.... "permission denied." ..cold...
The producers may have had some good stock footage, but they could've at least kept the same model Mustang in the picture. First they show a later model (P-51 D?) with a shiny aluminum skin and full canopy then switch to an earlier model with a painted skin and the non-rear view canopy......it's obvious! Sorry, that really bugs me even after all these years.....
That's nothing, I was watching an episode of Highway Patrol where Dan Mathews was going on a call starting out in a '57 Buick 4 dr hardtop, then it showed him in a '56 Mercury 2 dr, and when he arrived he was in a "55 Buick 2 dr. All these shows just used stock footage to fill in the 2-3 second gaps. The Rockford Files have used footage with 2-3 different year Firebirds in the same episode. It is just entertainment. I am thankful they have these shows on to where we can all enjoy them.
Did USAAF aircrews actually smoke cigarettes during flight? Incredible if true!
Yes they did abd the gunners as well, only and Only if the Skipper said yes
Why not a few squadrons of P51s?
I do love this series but sometimes they always put in the impossible.
Paul Burke always getting shot down and live to tell the tale or in this case breaching dams.
The RAF had to use specially modified Lancaster's to fly at 60ft with bouncing bombs to breach two dams: a '51 with two 500lbs wouldn't make a dent..... still, a great program and a big thanks for uploading :-)
they were only going to hit the spillway, not the dam. I don't watch the episodes with Paul Burke, anyway. He was not "the man".
ABC wanted a younger looking actor to play the lead. The funny thing is that Burke is older than Lansing. also, Burke had a track record as a TV star. He won an Emmy for a cop show, the Naked City, I think. ABC also took some of the adult out of the show to attract boys and moved it to an earlier time slot.
I think it was much more than that.If the Germans cotrolled the dams, they could flood the valley. That was a concern of the allies in the invasion. Elecriity was secondary, I think....
Kevin P The episode is set in 1943. The electricity the dam provides is far more important consideration than the possibility of flooding later.
D Model to A Model at 39:34. Oh, well. Great series anyway!!
20000 pounds sterling in 1943 would be equivalent of 1166735 pounds sterling.
I think that is highly unlikely that only a couple of 500lbs bombs would suffice to destroy a dam.
Fact - it was called 'skip' bombing, and worked quite well G'Day.
We are supposed to believe that this is taking place in early 1943... right...?
The P-51D model (with the bubble canopy) didn't come around until April 1944...
just saw a 1942 photo of the P-51 with canopy
The aircraft was an actually flying aircrcraft avail. for filming. No digital or models.
I don’t think the RAF flew P51’s before 1942.
The Mustang Mk1 entered service with 26 Squadron in January 1942.
@@EuroScot2023
So I was right?
This was a great episode! But in my opinion Savage was wrong to deny him the right to marry his girl. I would've told him "Throw me in the brig if you want, but unless you let us get married I won't fly this mission." But 'all's well that ends well.'
And £20,000 in the early 1940s would equal almost $400,000 or so in 2024. I'm not sure that he was "rich" but I guess he WAS fairly well off! Pounds were more valuable against the dollar back then. England kinda hit the shoals somewhere - economically speaking.
Don Harron. Aka Charlie Farquason.
Dams, 'skip' bombs ....
Yes D-day was bad, then came daylight bombing over the European occupied by Germans, many men lost, and people especially the infantry thought we had it made, we fought, jumped, escaped and most did not make it!
I've often wondered what the outcome of the war would have been if today's solders were fighting back in WW2. Would we be man enough to win this war?
@@TheFishdoctor1952, not only would we lose the war, we'd be laughed off the planet for trying to fight a war like that with "men" that don't even know what gender they are and are more concerned about whether their purses match their shoes or outfit! It's a miracle that we have enough real men left to even staff the military we now have.
It was the Army Air Force during the Second World War. They changed the name in late 1940 or 1941, I believe
Sorry, SlimJim, but the name was officially changed to United States Army Air Forces on June 20, 1941.
Google it, and check for yourself.
By the way, there is no typo in the name, it was
Army Air Forces (plural).
Thanks Dan, learn something new every day. Then I heard some one say you learn something new every day and forget two things every day. At that rate I'll be an idiot by the weekend!
Woody Wagon It Was 1946 Woody, When They Changed The Name! OORAH!
No they changed it after the war. In 1947 just before the Korean War The US Air Force.
I'd rather stay with the plane and possibly die rather than be a prisoner of war.
What was that Orville Dam?
39:28 no bombs, he'll meet FedEx later ..
In flight rearming. Top Secret
@@suburban404 oh, i thought the destination itself was the secret. I was joking fedex and in-flight delivery of bombs to the B-17 lol
@@suburban404 but seriously, he left the hangar WITH bombs .. left the RUNWAY without any bombs .. maybe they became 'stealth.'
Maybe Steiger did re-evaluate his future with the U.S. Army Air Force, and he concluded that it would be much brighter than Savage's.
at 39:21 he has no bomb on wing. lol
20,000 pounds is equivalent to almost 400,000 2020 dollars... Nice score
Charlie Farquesan
The girl resembles Jean Simmons.
As I recall the dam was taken out with B25's
No smoking in a B-17 flight deck !!!!!! Oxygen and fuel and oil vaper .
Yeah well rules were made to be broken weren't they. Just ask Savage, or, in reality, pretty much any WWII bomber crew. Compared to flak and fighters... the risk was very low indeed. I understand that B-29s even had built in ashtrays.
If their were fuel or oil vapour at concentration to combust on the flight deck of a B17 then it's time to head for the escape hatch!
Skip bombs?
It happened.
earl holiman reminds me of ben affleck, mannerisms, voice
The real thing cannot be equated with this Hollywood fiction.
Most people don't know that.
You have to admit though that this series certainly did not make our men in uniform look bad.
A moment of decision that we all have to face at least once in our lives that will determine our destiny forever. Mine was receiving Jesus Christ as the Lord and Savior of my spirit, soul and body; The sacrificial Lamb of God who washed away my sins and saved me from eternal damnation by His divine blood through the power Holy Spirit, who dwells in me forever. I run this race knowing I made the greatest decision of my life on earth.
Us gov just upped the debt by 2.7 trillion dollars!
An still is
During the Nuremberg trials German soldiers were convicted of war crimes for blowing up dams in Holland. Yet, in Korea, American flyers were given medals for blowing up dams in North Korea.
155s ARE NOT GOOD FOR AA.. 88s ARE BETTER SUITED FOR AA WORK .
At low level, 20mm and 37mm AA guns were murder!
U.S. Air Force????? During WW II it was the Army Air Corps, the Air Force did not exist yet.
It was Army Air Forces from June 20, 1941, until 1947, when it became the Department of the Air Force, a separate branch.
No. Army Air Corps became the US Army Air Force I believe in 43. It is my impression as well that USAAF personnel referred to themselves as "air force" anyway.
right it was 1941 as you say. I thought it was 1943 but that is incorrect ---it was 1941 that the AAF was established.
How predictable