1
00:01:55,534 --> 00:01:57,968
I hope you enjoy
the hat, Mr. Stovall.

2
00:01:58,036 --> 00:02:00,300
- And a pleasant voyage home to you.
- Well, thank you.

3
00:02:00,372 --> 00:02:02,363
I'd like to thank you
for something else too.

4
00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:04,374
Back home, I'd buy
a hat in five minutes.

5
00:02:04,442 --> 00:02:08,572
- Thank you for a most enjoyable hour and 40 minutes.
- It was a pleasure.

6
00:02:08,647 --> 00:02:11,241
- Come back soon, Mr. Stovall.
- Good-bye, sir.

7
00:02:50,355 --> 00:02:53,847
- Where did you get this?
- An auction at Archbury, sir.

8
00:02:53,925 --> 00:02:57,952
- I'll take it.
- That one's been knocked around a bit, sir.

9
00:02:59,564 --> 00:03:03,625
- I have a fine Staffordshire here...
- No, no, no. I'll take this one.

10
00:03:03,702 --> 00:03:06,296
- How much?
- Only ten shillings, sir.

11
00:03:06,371 --> 00:03:11,399
- I'm afraid it's not much value...
- Value? I want you to pack it carefully.

12
00:03:11,476 --> 00:03:13,410
Very carefully.

13
00:03:13,478 --> 00:03:15,469
As you say, sir.

14
00:05:09,194 --> 00:05:12,857
<i>#Anyone else but me
Anyone else but me #</i>

15
00:05:12,931 --> 00:05:16,560
<i>#No, no, no don't sit
under the apple tree #</i>

16
00:05:16,634 --> 00:05:18,932
<i># With anyone else but me #</i>

17
00:05:19,003 --> 00:05:22,461
<i># Till I come marching home ##</i>

18
00:05:34,519 --> 00:05:37,818
<i>#Bless them all
Bless them all #</i>

19
00:05:37,889 --> 00:05:42,121
<i>#Bless the long
and the short and the tall #</i>

20
00:05:42,193 --> 00:05:45,822
<i>#Bless all the blondies
and all the brunettes #</i>

21
00:05:45,897 --> 00:05:49,333
<i>#For each lad is happy
to take what he gets #</i>

22
00:05:53,071 --> 00:05:56,040
<i># The long the short
and the tall ##</i>

23
00:06:05,617 --> 00:06:08,279
<i># We're poor little lambs #</i>

24
00:06:08,353 --> 00:06:12,050
<i># Who have lost our way #</i>

25
00:06:12,123 --> 00:06:17,060
<i>#Baa, baa, baa #</i>

26
00:06:18,329 --> 00:06:21,298
<i># We're little black sheep #</i>

27
00:06:21,366 --> 00:06:25,325
<i># Who have gone astray #</i>

28
00:06:25,403 --> 00:06:28,372
<i>#Baa, baa, baa ##</i>

29
00:09:12,537 --> 00:09:15,506
We can't go back.

30
00:09:15,573 --> 00:09:17,541
We mustn't go back.

31
00:09:17,608 --> 00:09:21,100
- Easy with his right leg. It's broken.
- I got it. I got it.

32
00:09:21,179 --> 00:09:23,943
Easy now, easy now.
You have to hold him.

33
00:09:24,015 --> 00:09:26,210
I've been
sitting on him.

34
00:09:26,284 --> 00:09:30,516
We can't. We just can't.

35
00:09:30,588 --> 00:09:33,716
I wouldn't believe it if I wasn't
looking at it. You can see his brain.

36
00:09:33,791 --> 00:09:35,816
It was a 20 millimeter
that hit him.

37
00:09:38,229 --> 00:09:41,130
Step on it, Doc.

38
00:09:46,871 --> 00:09:50,637
- What do I do with an arm, sir?
- An arm? Whose arm?

39
00:09:50,708 --> 00:09:53,734
- Campbell's, the turret gunner's.
- What happened to the rest of him?

40
00:09:53,811 --> 00:09:58,339
He's in a French hospital... I hope.
He couldn't have made it home.

41
00:09:58,416 --> 00:10:02,614
It was blown off too close to put on
a tourniquet so I bailed him out.

42
00:10:02,687 --> 00:10:05,986
I put the ring in his good hand.
The chute opened.

43
00:10:06,057 --> 00:10:08,890
That's all right.
I'll take care of it.

44
00:10:14,565 --> 00:10:17,966
- Sergeant, get me a blanket out of that ambulance.
- Yes, sir.

45
00:10:41,759 --> 00:10:43,886
Come on.
I'll give you boys a lift.

46
00:10:44,896 --> 00:10:47,091
- Hospital, Mac.
- Yes, sir.

47
00:10:56,240 --> 00:10:58,572
Mac's had it.

48
00:11:14,459 --> 00:11:17,223
Did you get the coordinates on a Fort
and a Spitfire down in the Channel?

49
00:11:17,295 --> 00:11:20,128
I've already passed them
to Air Sea Rescue, sir.

50
00:11:41,853 --> 00:11:44,822
That's it, gentlemen.
Thanks a lot.

51
00:11:44,889 --> 00:11:46,880
<i>Next crew.</i>

52
00:11:50,027 --> 00:11:52,552
<i>- Take this one.
- Next crew.</i>

53
00:11:52,630 --> 00:11:54,655
Come on, Jesse.

54
00:12:01,506 --> 00:12:03,474
- McKesson's crew.
- Right.

55
00:12:03,541 --> 00:12:06,567
- McKesson coming?
- McKesson's dead.

56
00:12:08,346 --> 00:12:13,147
Oh, I didn't know. I'm sorry. Well, we
might as well get this out of the way.

57
00:12:13,217 --> 00:12:15,378
<i>Sit down.</i>

58
00:12:17,655 --> 00:12:20,988
Where did you first
encounter enemy action?

59
00:12:21,058 --> 00:12:23,686
- Bishop.
- Leave him alone. He's had enough today.

60
00:12:27,031 --> 00:12:29,226
Leave him alone,
can't you?

61
00:12:30,668 --> 00:12:32,659
What is it, Willie?

62
00:12:32,737 --> 00:12:36,104
I don't know, sir.

63
00:12:36,174 --> 00:12:38,267
Not all of it.

64
00:12:39,744 --> 00:12:44,613
We got hit pretty bad
the first pass the F.W. S made.

65
00:12:44,682 --> 00:12:47,617
That was when Mac got it.

66
00:12:47,685 --> 00:12:50,950
It took the back
of his head right off.

67
00:12:50,988 --> 00:12:55,857
Only he didn't pass out.
It just made a crazy man out of him.

68
00:12:55,893 --> 00:12:58,384
He was still shouting orders...

69
00:12:58,462 --> 00:13:02,796
and trying to get the controls away from
Jesse when I got up there two hours later.

70
00:13:04,001 --> 00:13:06,367
The kid had been
flying with one hand...

71
00:13:06,437 --> 00:13:10,373
and trying to get the controls
away from Mac with the other.

72
00:13:10,441 --> 00:13:15,003
Wiping frozen blood
off the windshield so he could see.

73
00:13:15,079 --> 00:13:18,378
For two hours, sir.

74
00:13:18,449 --> 00:13:21,111
He made a good bombing run too.
We unloaded on the target.

75
00:13:21,185 --> 00:13:25,281
Didn't you know he was in trouble? Why
didn't somebody get Mac out of there?

76
00:13:25,356 --> 00:13:28,416
The intercom was shot out and I
thought it was violent evasive action.

77
00:13:28,492 --> 00:13:31,484
For two hours?

78
00:13:31,562 --> 00:13:34,656
Mac's foot was jammed
in the controls and...

79
00:13:34,732 --> 00:13:38,293
that's how we broke his leg
trying to get it out of there.

80
00:13:38,369 --> 00:13:41,566
That seemed
to hurt Jesse worst of all.

81
00:13:41,639 --> 00:13:47,271
He started shaking and I...
I sat on Mac and held him...

82
00:13:47,345 --> 00:13:49,973
while Jesse brought us in.

83
00:13:50,047 --> 00:13:52,311
Give me a copy of that, Fred,
just the way he told it.

84
00:13:52,383 --> 00:13:55,682
I'm sending it in with
a recommendation for a Medal of Honor.

85
00:13:55,753 --> 00:13:59,951
- Jesse will be okay. I'll drop by later and see him.
- Thank you, sir.

86
00:14:01,659 --> 00:14:05,459
<i>- That's enough for this crew.
- That's all, gentlemen. Thank you.</i>

87
00:14:05,529 --> 00:14:08,020
<i>Next crew. Next crew.</i>

88
00:14:15,206 --> 00:14:17,174
Is he in there, Harvey?

89
00:14:17,241 --> 00:14:21,177
No, he hasn't been in since right after
interrogation. He looked like the devil.

90
00:14:21,245 --> 00:14:23,509
Well, who wouldn't with today?

91
00:14:23,581 --> 00:14:25,572
That's for you, Ben.

92
00:14:25,650 --> 00:14:28,118
They're flying down
three replacement aircraft.

93
00:14:28,185 --> 00:14:30,176
Hmm. That's very,
very nice of them.

94
00:14:30,254 --> 00:14:34,691
Lose five, get three. That's a nice
gain, not counting battle damage.

95
00:14:34,759 --> 00:14:36,989
<i>This is Germany calling.</i>

96
00:14:37,061 --> 00:14:40,155
<i>Lord Haw-Haw,
talking from Berlin.</i>

97
00:14:40,231 --> 00:14:45,362
<i>Today I want to bring a special greeting
from the fighter pilots of the Luftwaffe...</i>

98
00:14:45,436 --> 00:14:49,304
to the first American pilots
in England, the Eighth Air Force.

99
00:14:49,373 --> 00:14:52,240
That's all we need. Our submarines
checked you very carefully...

100
00:14:52,310 --> 00:14:56,542
when you flew across from America...
four groups in place so far.

101
00:14:56,614 --> 00:15:00,050
Too bad about the ones
who you lost on the way.

102
00:15:00,117 --> 00:15:01,982
<i>But we wanted to let you know...</i>

103
00:15:02,053 --> 00:15:06,649
<i>that a U-boat picked up the crew
and they're quite safe here.</i>

104
00:15:06,724 --> 00:15:09,522
We found them quite
agreeably talkative too.

105
00:15:09,593 --> 00:15:11,652
But what we want to know...

106
00:15:11,729 --> 00:15:16,860
Whoever persuaded you to try this
incredible idea of daylight bombing?

107
00:15:16,934 --> 00:15:19,926
It must have been
your friends, the English.

108
00:15:20,004 --> 00:15:22,871
They know better
than to try it themselves.

109
00:15:22,940 --> 00:15:26,000
<i>Losses are a little
heavy, aren't they?</i>

110
00:15:26,077 --> 00:15:30,741
<i>- Let's take the 918th group at Archbury, for instance.
- That's us.</i>

111
00:15:30,815 --> 00:15:35,582
<i>The hard-luck group. You lost
five bombers today, didn't you?</i>

112
00:15:35,653 --> 00:15:38,213
<i>Five out of the one group.</i>

113
00:15:38,289 --> 00:15:41,725
<i>Let's see, 21 in a group?</i>

114
00:15:41,792 --> 00:15:45,193
<i>At that rate, it won't
take very long, will it?</i>

115
00:15:45,262 --> 00:15:48,823
<i>Something pleasant to think about
before your mission tomorrow.</i>

116
00:15:48,899 --> 00:15:54,030
Yes, Colonel Keith Davenport.
You'll have another one tomorrow.

117
00:15:54,105 --> 00:15:57,174
<i>Pleasant dreams,
my misguided friends.</i>

118
00:16:00,044 --> 00:16:02,035
I don't know why
we listen to him.

119
00:16:02,113 --> 00:16:06,209
It's always the same pitch...
we've already lost the war.

120
00:16:06,283 --> 00:16:09,047
On a day like this, I could
find myself believing him.

121
00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:12,612
What was today's
count on crews?

122
00:16:12,690 --> 00:16:14,988
Five crews didn't make it back.

123
00:16:15,059 --> 00:16:18,654
Three killed, 11 wounded
out of those who did.

124
00:16:18,729 --> 00:16:20,697
A lot of letters to write.

125
00:16:20,765 --> 00:16:23,097
I'm glad I don't have that one.

126
00:16:23,167 --> 00:16:26,500
- Did you hear about Lord Haw-Haw?
- Twice on the way over here.

127
00:16:26,570 --> 00:16:30,006
That kind of news moves fast. Don't let
a Kraut newshound throw you too much.

128
00:16:30,074 --> 00:16:33,669
He was right about one thing. We're alerted
for tomorrow. The warning just came down.

129
00:16:33,744 --> 00:16:36,838
- Again tomorrow? You're kidding, Ben.
- I wish I were, sir.

130
00:16:36,914 --> 00:16:39,849
Fine, fine.
Four days in a row.

131
00:16:39,917 --> 00:16:41,908
Well, we'd better start
getting things together.

132
00:16:41,986 --> 00:16:45,251
- Alert the crews and I'll see you in the ops room.
- Yes, sir.

133
00:16:59,103 --> 00:17:03,540
- This will make you happy. Flak City again.
- St. Nazaire?

134
00:17:03,574 --> 00:17:08,034
It's either a feast or a famine. Chew your nails
off for three weeks waiting on the weather...

135
00:17:08,112 --> 00:17:10,478
and then cram a month's
bombing into four days.

136
00:17:10,548 --> 00:17:12,482
Must be an easier way
to run a war.

137
00:17:12,583 --> 00:17:15,609
Field order's snafued too.
It says here 9,000 feet.

138
00:17:15,686 --> 00:17:20,646
That's a mistake. I'm sure they mean
19,000. I'll check with Savage.

139
00:17:20,724 --> 00:17:23,352
Another maximum effort.

140
00:17:23,427 --> 00:17:26,396
What have you got in the way of
weather? Give us some fog, can't you?

141
00:17:26,430 --> 00:17:29,831
I wish I could, but the target area
ought to be C.A.V.U.

142
00:17:29,900 --> 00:17:32,994
About three tenths cloud cover
over the Channel. Ideal almost.

143
00:17:33,070 --> 00:17:36,506
- You're no good to me. Let me know if there's any change.
- Yes, sir.

144
00:17:37,775 --> 00:17:39,709
How many airplanes
have we got left?

145
00:17:39,777 --> 00:17:44,271
With the three new ones and working the
crews all night, Nero thinks we can have 18.

146
00:17:44,348 --> 00:17:47,511
- How many are the other groups
putting up? - Twenty-one a piece, sir.

147
00:17:47,585 --> 00:17:50,076
We'd better camp
on Nero's tail.

148
00:17:50,154 --> 00:17:55,182
No, if he says 18, he's giving us
everything with wings on it.

149
00:17:55,259 --> 00:17:57,193
What did the other
groups lose today?

150
00:17:57,261 --> 00:18:00,025
Two in the 916th,
zero in the others.

151
00:18:00,097 --> 00:18:05,433
Our stinking luck. Those flak gunners had
the range good by the time we made our run.

152
00:18:05,503 --> 00:18:10,270
- What about crews, Doc?
- I could give you a couple of different answers, sir.

153
00:18:10,341 --> 00:18:12,332
I'd better get started
on routes and timings.

154
00:18:12,409 --> 00:18:16,368
- No coffee, Ben?
- Oh, not now, thanks.

155
00:18:16,447 --> 00:18:20,008
That's getting to be your diet,
isn't it? That and cigarettes?

156
00:18:20,084 --> 00:18:22,143
How long since you've
had your clothes off?

157
00:18:22,219 --> 00:18:24,210
Never mind my pants,
what about crews?

158
00:18:24,288 --> 00:18:28,247
You're crew, when it comes to my
certifying you for a mission.

159
00:18:28,292 --> 00:18:31,420
There's the crew availability.

160
00:18:32,963 --> 00:18:35,363
Colonel, about the route and timing
of tomorrow's mission?

161
00:18:35,432 --> 00:18:38,333
Start on the routes. But I wouldn't
figure on that 9,000-foot altitude...

162
00:18:38,402 --> 00:18:42,395
- until Colonel Davenport checks with Pinetree.
- Yes, sir.

163
00:18:42,506 --> 00:18:45,407
Thanks for worrying
about me, Doc, only don't.

164
00:18:45,442 --> 00:18:47,410
What about the rest of them?

165
00:18:47,444 --> 00:18:49,605
That brings us
to the two answers.

166
00:18:49,647 --> 00:18:52,810
On that list are 28 men asking to
be excused from tomorrow's mission,

167
00:18:52,850 --> 00:18:55,114
three times more
than normal.

168
00:18:55,185 --> 00:18:59,485
They give a lot of reasons, colds mostly,
and most of them haven't got colds.

169
00:18:59,557 --> 00:19:01,957
And that doesn't mean that
they've suddenly gone yellow.

170
00:19:02,026 --> 00:19:04,790
It just means that they're
getting their bellies full.

171
00:19:04,862 --> 00:19:07,626
Now, do I okay them physically
and mark them "duty"?

172
00:19:07,698 --> 00:19:11,190
How much can a man take?
What's physical and what isn't?

173
00:19:11,268 --> 00:19:15,261
The rules say a man ought to go right up
to the point where he may endanger his crew.

174
00:19:15,339 --> 00:19:17,864
I wish I knew what that meant.
If I did, I'd tell you.

175
00:19:17,942 --> 00:19:22,174
Well, can you tell me this...
do I okay Bishop for tomorrow?

176
00:19:22,246 --> 00:19:25,113
He had a tough deal.
Jesse's a tough boy.

177
00:19:25,182 --> 00:19:29,744
How tough? What happened today
must have done something to him inside.

178
00:19:29,820 --> 00:19:32,653
It had to have
cost him something.

179
00:19:32,723 --> 00:19:37,251
Somebody's got to give me
a policy, some kind of yardstick.

180
00:19:37,328 --> 00:19:39,819
I wish you'd tell me
what a "maximum effort" means.

181
00:19:39,897 --> 00:19:43,526
Doc, I wish I knew.
I wish I could answer that one.

182
00:19:46,470 --> 00:19:51,407
Hello. Yes.
Hello, Pinetree. All right.

183
00:19:51,442 --> 00:19:57,005
Frank, Keith Davenport.
Yeah. Yeah, I heard it.

184
00:19:57,047 --> 00:19:59,538
Look, Frank, I didn't call up
to talk about Lord Haw-Haw.

185
00:19:59,617 --> 00:20:03,951
What about that cockeyed field order
that came down that said 9,000?

186
00:20:04,021 --> 00:20:06,615
What? Oh, you're kidding.

187
00:20:06,690 --> 00:20:10,592
Yeah, but the strike photos don't show
what the flak is like in there.

188
00:20:10,661 --> 00:20:12,788
Listen, are you gonna
be there a little while?

189
00:20:12,863 --> 00:20:14,797
All right. I'll be right up.

190
00:20:14,865 --> 00:20:20,531
They meant 9,000. Maybe when I get back
I can give you an answer, Doc.

191
00:20:43,894 --> 00:20:48,524
<i>No, no mistake.
It's 9,000.</i>

192
00:20:48,599 --> 00:20:52,899
<i>Well, we've got to try it. We're
not getting hits on those sub-pens.</i>

193
00:20:55,272 --> 00:21:00,141
Yeah, I know. Then twist it. Had the
same request all day. So long, Curt.

194
00:21:00,210 --> 00:21:04,306
The Wailing Wall is just
around the corner, Keith.

195
00:21:05,616 --> 00:21:10,349
Oh, I don't know.
I guess this is it. Sit down.

196
00:21:10,421 --> 00:21:12,480
If you're on the level
about this 9,000 foot stuff,

197
00:21:12,556 --> 00:21:15,889
the boys will drop their bombs
here tomorrow instead of St. Nazaire.

198
00:21:15,959 --> 00:21:21,625
- Look, Frank...
- It won't work. It was tough at 19,000 it'll be suicide at nine.

199
00:21:21,699 --> 00:21:25,760
The guy who dreamed this one up ought to
have his brain in a glass jar at Harvard.

200
00:21:25,836 --> 00:21:28,304
- Anything else?
- You're kidding?

201
00:21:28,372 --> 00:21:32,103
You've been a group commander. You didn't
lead the first ten missions for nothing.

202
00:21:32,209 --> 00:21:35,906
- Why couldn't you tell them what it'll be like? You...
- Keith.

203
00:21:35,979 --> 00:21:38,140
I signed the field order.

204
00:21:38,215 --> 00:21:40,206
Why? That's what
I want to know.

205
00:21:40,284 --> 00:21:42,275
All right, I'll
spell it for you.

206
00:21:42,352 --> 00:21:45,719
We haven't been penetrating
the concrete in those sub-pens, Keith.

207
00:21:45,789 --> 00:21:49,589
We can't get concentration
and accuracy from 19,000.

208
00:21:49,660 --> 00:21:52,925
We've got to go in once down low to see
if we can get the job done in one trip...

209
00:21:52,996 --> 00:21:56,659
instead of fighting our way to the
target five times and back for nothing.

210
00:21:56,734 --> 00:21:58,668
Nine thousand feet.

211
00:21:58,736 --> 00:22:03,537
Let's allow from here in that when the old
man cuts a field order, he's thought about it.

212
00:22:03,607 --> 00:22:07,566
There isn't time to take every one
of them apart to see what makes it tick.

213
00:22:07,644 --> 00:22:11,512
If I were you, when I got one,
I'd just go ahead and fly it.

214
00:22:11,582 --> 00:22:14,483
I was gonna bring these
down to you tomorrow.

215
00:22:14,551 --> 00:22:16,883
I had to steal them
from the RAF.

216
00:22:16,954 --> 00:22:18,945
Hope they're
the kind you wanted.

217
00:22:19,022 --> 00:22:21,013
Yeah.

218
00:22:23,327 --> 00:22:25,386
Yeah, thanks, Frank.

219
00:22:27,131 --> 00:22:31,033
I won't need them at 9,000
though. It'll be plenty hot.

220
00:22:32,970 --> 00:22:35,029
Well, I better get on back
and get the chores done.

221
00:22:35,105 --> 00:22:37,471
Stay put a minute
now you're here.

222
00:22:37,541 --> 00:22:41,443
Thought I might run down tomorrow to
see you. How many you expect to put out?

223
00:22:41,512 --> 00:22:43,707
Eighteen.

224
00:22:43,781 --> 00:22:46,807
- Pretty bad luck today?
- Not good.

225
00:22:46,884 --> 00:22:49,751
We had one break through
the runway at takeoff.

226
00:22:49,820 --> 00:22:52,653
That threw us late.
We never made it up.

227
00:22:52,723 --> 00:22:55,487
It cost us plenty.

228
00:22:55,559 --> 00:22:57,584
I don't know how anybody
outguesses that one.

229
00:22:59,096 --> 00:23:01,564
No.

230
00:23:01,632 --> 00:23:04,863
I'd like to help you locate
where the trouble does lie, if I could.

231
00:23:04,935 --> 00:23:07,563
What about your formation?

232
00:23:07,638 --> 00:23:12,200
I can tell you where the real trouble
is, Frank. And it isn't formation.

233
00:23:12,276 --> 00:23:15,905
- Shoot.
- It isn't down in the groups either.

234
00:23:15,979 --> 00:23:18,971
It's up here, where a bunch of boys
get to be nothing but a set of numbers.

235
00:23:19,049 --> 00:23:21,040
That's what's the trouble.

236
00:23:21,118 --> 00:23:24,315
Do they know up here what my boys have
been taking for three days in a row?

237
00:23:24,388 --> 00:23:27,221
That they'll be up all night
to get 18 in the air for tomorrow?

238
00:23:27,291 --> 00:23:30,627
How much do you think they can take? You
know they're falling asleep at briefing?

239
00:23:30,761 --> 00:23:33,696
<i>- Are you gonna drive them till they crack?
- Take it easy, Keith.</i>

240
00:23:33,764 --> 00:23:37,291
Take it easy? Bomber Command can take
it easy. Those boys are flesh and blood.

241
00:23:37,367 --> 00:23:40,393
They'll die for you, but they've got to have
a chance and they know they haven't got one.

242
00:23:40,470 --> 00:23:43,633
Frank, they can add. They know
a man's chances run out in 15 missions.

243
00:23:43,707 --> 00:23:46,073
Somebody's gotta give them a limit,
a goal, some hope of living.

244
00:23:46,143 --> 00:23:48,805
What do you think
they're made of?

245
00:23:48,879 --> 00:23:53,282
Look, Keith.

246
00:23:53,317 --> 00:23:57,185
- Yes, sir?
- I just got the reports from the groups. Come on up, Frank.

247
00:23:57,287 --> 00:23:59,778
I'll be there in a minute, sir.

248
00:23:59,857 --> 00:24:01,950
Those things are coming, Keith.

249
00:24:02,025 --> 00:24:05,620
Replacements, combat limits.

250
00:24:05,696 --> 00:24:08,358
But right now
the deal is to hang on.

251
00:24:08,432 --> 00:24:12,095
And look, Keith, you've got to find
a way to save yourself a little.

252
00:24:12,169 --> 00:24:16,196
You can't carry
all the load. It's too big.

253
00:24:16,273 --> 00:24:20,266
Don't worry about me. If you want something
to worry about, worry about the crews.

254
00:24:20,344 --> 00:24:23,677
You and the old man.

255
00:24:23,747 --> 00:24:27,080
You better go on up and see him.

256
00:24:27,150 --> 00:24:30,779
- Give him my love.
- If I do, he'll send you his.

257
00:24:30,854 --> 00:24:33,482
He rates you pretty high.

258
00:24:33,557 --> 00:24:37,015
Not according to Lord Haw-Haw.
Good night, Frank.

259
00:25:02,419 --> 00:25:06,651
Never mind the reasons. There it is and
you can't make anything else out of it.

260
00:25:06,723 --> 00:25:09,749
Five missing today and they'll
only put up 18 tomorrow.

261
00:25:09,826 --> 00:25:13,159
- It's getting worse instead of better.
- Yes, sir.

262
00:25:13,230 --> 00:25:16,256
I've just been talking to Keith.
He's low enough about it.

263
00:25:16,333 --> 00:25:18,893
What really happened today?
Did he tell you?

264
00:25:18,969 --> 00:25:22,461
No, I didn't dig into it.
He had tomorrow ahead of him.

265
00:25:22,539 --> 00:25:25,872
What do you make of it?

266
00:25:25,943 --> 00:25:30,175
Hard luck, I guess. There's always
some outfit that picks up a jinx.

267
00:25:30,247 --> 00:25:32,681
You don't believe that.

268
00:25:32,749 --> 00:25:34,740
Fill yourself a drink.

269
00:25:34,818 --> 00:25:36,843
Thanks.

270
00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:39,787
It might scare off
that bug of yours.

271
00:25:43,427 --> 00:25:48,387
I don't believe in hard luck.
There's always a reason.

272
00:25:51,468 --> 00:25:55,734
<i>What have you got on your mind,
Frank? Spill it.</i>

273
00:25:55,806 --> 00:25:57,740
I'd rather not.

274
00:25:58,875 --> 00:26:00,809
Let's have it
with the bark on.

275
00:26:04,114 --> 00:26:08,278
You won't like it. I don't.
It's the group commander.

276
00:26:13,090 --> 00:26:15,149
Keith?

277
00:26:15,225 --> 00:26:18,558
It's always the group commander.
It's his job, isn't it?

278
00:26:22,065 --> 00:26:25,000
A little funny, coming from you.
He's your friend.

279
00:26:25,068 --> 00:26:27,127
I didn't ask you
to ask me.

280
00:26:27,204 --> 00:26:31,664
- I didn't mean it to sound like that, Frank.
- It's okay.

281
00:26:31,742 --> 00:26:37,203
I don't believe it though.
I don't think I do.

282
00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:41,341
On paper, Keith looked to me like
the best group commander we've had.

283
00:26:41,418 --> 00:26:45,445
He's flown every mission. He gets more
loyalty out of his men than anybody.

284
00:26:45,522 --> 00:26:49,356
Courage, he works hard.
I don't know where to fault him.

285
00:26:49,426 --> 00:26:52,395
If a man like that can't
cut it, we're in trouble.

286
00:26:52,462 --> 00:26:56,558
- What happened downstairs to change the picture for you?
- Nothing.

287
00:26:58,602 --> 00:27:01,799
Added this to it though.

288
00:27:01,872 --> 00:27:06,775
He's gonna bust wide open.
And he's gonna do it to himself too.

289
00:27:06,843 --> 00:27:10,973
Why? Because he's
a first-rate guy.

290
00:27:11,048 --> 00:27:15,485
Because those are his boys and he's
thinking about them instead of missions.

291
00:27:15,552 --> 00:27:18,453
Over-identification
with his men.

292
00:27:18,522 --> 00:27:20,456
I think that's
what they call it.

293
00:27:20,524 --> 00:27:23,186
<i>And you aren't going
to change it either.</i>

294
00:27:25,929 --> 00:27:30,161
I can't buy it, Frank.
Not yet anyway.

295
00:27:30,233 --> 00:27:32,167
Is Keith still here?

296
00:27:32,235 --> 00:27:34,499
No, he had tomorrow
to get ready for.

297
00:27:34,571 --> 00:27:37,369
I'll give you that much,
we'd better find out.

298
00:27:37,441 --> 00:27:39,500
If it's true, we're in trouble.

299
00:27:39,576 --> 00:27:43,910
Why should the other groups hold
together if the 918th can't?

300
00:27:43,980 --> 00:27:47,541
Call my car, will you, Frank,
while I get my pants on.

301
00:27:47,617 --> 00:27:49,676
You mean you want me
to go down there with you?

302
00:27:49,786 --> 00:27:53,381
You bet I do.
It's your idea.

303
00:27:56,793 --> 00:28:00,695
We were three minutes late on the target
and got most of it here on our bombing run.

304
00:28:00,797 --> 00:28:02,864
<i>That was a deadly
three minutes, Keith.</i>

305
00:28:02,899 --> 00:28:06,596
The idea was to get all the groups
over the target simultaneously...

306
00:28:06,670 --> 00:28:09,901
so that enemy flak couldn't
concentrate on any one group.

307
00:28:09,973 --> 00:28:13,773
We sure were sitting ducks out there alone.
Maybe I shouldn't have tried the target.

308
00:28:13,844 --> 00:28:16,813
But we were there and I figured the boys
wouldn't want to bring their loads back home.

309
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:22,580
No man makes a perfect plan. You couldn't
foresee a plane breaking through the runway.

310
00:28:22,652 --> 00:28:26,144
Maybe the mistake lay in not going on to
the secondary target once you were late.

311
00:28:26,223 --> 00:28:28,953
But I figured we could make up the time,
catch up with the other groups.

312
00:28:29,025 --> 00:28:33,121
- We could have too if it hadn't been for our stinking luck.
- Luck? What luck was that?

313
00:28:33,196 --> 00:28:35,858
- It wasn't luck, sir. It was my fault.
- It wasn't anybody's fault.

314
00:28:35,932 --> 00:28:38,400
- I'd like to hear the lieutenant's version.
- Yes, sir.

315
00:28:38,468 --> 00:28:43,701
We had to alter the navigation in flight,
sir, to cross the enemy coast here.

316
00:28:43,773 --> 00:28:46,139
We picked up an error...
wind change.

317
00:28:46,209 --> 00:28:50,236
<i>And I missed a checkpoint
here at St. Lo.</i>

318
00:28:50,313 --> 00:28:53,373
<i>By the time I had caught it,
here at Rennes,</i>

319
00:28:53,450 --> 00:28:56,544
it had cost us three minutes
and we never made it up.

320
00:28:56,620 --> 00:29:00,249
If there's any fault, it's mine. I was in
command. I ordered the change in flight plan.

321
00:29:00,323 --> 00:29:03,815
- The weather was thick enough. Could have happened to anyone.
- Well, I think that covers it.

322
00:29:03,894 --> 00:29:07,990
Thank you, Lieutenant.
Thank you, gentlemen.

323
00:29:10,500 --> 00:29:12,434
- Zimmy.
- Yes, sir.

324
00:29:12,502 --> 00:29:16,461
It's okay.
Don't worry about a thing.

325
00:29:23,947 --> 00:29:26,848
Keith, I know you're tired,
but let's talk a little.

326
00:29:26,917 --> 00:29:29,078
Sit down.

327
00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:32,754
Let's talk about luck.

328
00:29:36,393 --> 00:29:38,918
A pretty critical
three minutes, Keith.

329
00:29:38,995 --> 00:29:42,294
- Five crews, 50 men.
- Do you think I don't know?

330
00:29:42,365 --> 00:29:45,095
- I know you do. Whose fault was it, Keith?
- Primarily it was mine.

331
00:29:45,168 --> 00:29:47,102
- Were you flying?
- Yes, sir.

332
00:29:47,170 --> 00:29:50,503
- Do you fly and navigate or do you rely on your navigator?
- You have to, but...

333
00:29:50,574 --> 00:29:53,475
- It was the lieutenant's fault.
- He missed the check point, but it could've happened to anyone.

334
00:29:53,543 --> 00:29:58,207
I know and I'll allow he feels as rotten
about it as any of us do, more so maybe.

335
00:29:58,281 --> 00:30:00,806
But what happens now, Keith?

336
00:30:00,884 --> 00:30:03,375
I don't understand you, sir.

337
00:30:04,854 --> 00:30:08,688
We're talking about luck.
I don't believe in it.

338
00:30:08,758 --> 00:30:11,989
I believe that to some degree
a man makes his own luck.

339
00:30:12,062 --> 00:30:15,361
Yours has been pretty bad down here
and it's getting worse, not better.

340
00:30:15,432 --> 00:30:20,699
Maybe the navigator's in point. He blew
it. What are you going to do about it?

341
00:30:20,770 --> 00:30:24,900
General, I don't believe in chopping off
heads because of one mistake.

342
00:30:24,975 --> 00:30:28,069
Well, I just don't think
that's any way to run a group.

343
00:30:30,614 --> 00:30:33,845
I feel sorry
for the boy, Keith.

344
00:30:33,917 --> 00:30:38,217
But what are the men in your group going to be
thinking about the next mission he navigates?

345
00:30:38,288 --> 00:30:40,779
That he messed up
the St. Nazaire mission.

346
00:30:40,857 --> 00:30:44,623
It's just that much more load on them. And one
day, if they fall apart, that won't be luck.

347
00:30:44,694 --> 00:30:47,390
There isn't a man in the outfit
who wouldn't stake his life on Zimmy.

348
00:30:47,464 --> 00:30:51,867
General, if it was anyone but him. He's
got two strikes against him to begin with.

349
00:30:51,935 --> 00:30:54,961
You don't realize. That boy's
got a persecution complex.

350
00:30:55,038 --> 00:30:57,233
He wants to fly every mission
trying to live down the fact...

351
00:30:57,307 --> 00:31:00,174
that his parents were mixed up
in the German-American Bund.

352
00:31:00,243 --> 00:31:03,474
They screened Zimmy plenty before he ever
got overseas. That's what's riding him now.

353
00:31:03,546 --> 00:31:08,745
Keith, good navigators
is the one thing we're not short of.

354
00:31:08,818 --> 00:31:13,790
If you decide that you ought to relieve
this boy, I'll give you a good replacement.

355
00:31:15,925 --> 00:31:19,759
You might as well ask me to stand him up
against the wall and shoot him in the back.

356
00:31:19,829 --> 00:31:24,198
No, I won't do it, sir. I just
can't do it to him. I won't.

357
00:31:30,106 --> 00:31:32,267
Keith, I want you
to get to bed.

358
00:31:32,342 --> 00:31:37,177
Have the flight surgeon give you a shot
that will make you sleep 24 hours.

359
00:31:37,247 --> 00:31:41,308
I guess a man only has so much to give
and I guess you've given it.

360
00:31:43,653 --> 00:31:45,587
Effective now, you are
relieved of this command...

361
00:31:45,655 --> 00:31:48,351
and you will report to me
for duty at Bomber Command.

362
00:31:48,425 --> 00:31:51,019
I'll send someone down
to take over here.

363
00:31:51,094 --> 00:31:54,222
- Good night, Keith.
- Good night, sir.

364
00:32:04,074 --> 00:32:07,669
Major, the 918th will stand down
until a new commanding officer arrives.

365
00:32:07,744 --> 00:32:10,178
Yes, sir.

366
00:32:55,458 --> 00:32:59,019
- Want me to take it, sir?
- No.

367
00:33:02,799 --> 00:33:05,461
I want to talk, Frank.

368
00:33:13,009 --> 00:33:18,072
There's a hole in the dike, Frank.
I'm scared stiff.

369
00:33:19,783 --> 00:33:23,981
Maybe you know how deep
all this goes, and maybe you don't.

370
00:33:24,053 --> 00:33:27,022
I've got to spill it anyhow.

371
00:33:27,090 --> 00:33:30,184
We're fighting
all over the world.

372
00:33:30,260 --> 00:33:35,027
Every theater commander
is screaming for crews and equipment.

373
00:33:35,098 --> 00:33:40,866
Fifty thousand airplanes, that's
what they say they're building.

374
00:33:40,937 --> 00:33:43,371
I wish we had 500.

375
00:33:45,141 --> 00:33:49,168
Our problem right now
narrows down to one group.

376
00:33:49,245 --> 00:33:53,375
If the 918th folds, it can spread
to the other three groups.

377
00:33:53,450 --> 00:33:56,385
It can fold the whole deal.

378
00:33:56,453 --> 00:33:58,978
There's only one hope
of shortening this war...

379
00:33:59,055 --> 00:34:02,149
daylight precision bombing.

380
00:34:02,225 --> 00:34:05,661
If we fold, daylight
bombing is done with.

381
00:34:05,728 --> 00:34:11,360
I don't know. Maybe
it means the whole show.

382
00:34:11,434 --> 00:34:16,838
We could lose the war
if we don't knock out German industry.

383
00:34:18,041 --> 00:34:20,805
You can smell
what's coming, Frank.

384
00:34:20,844 --> 00:34:26,805
I'm promising you nothing except a job no man
should have to do who's had his share of combat.

385
00:34:26,883 --> 00:34:31,343
I've gotta ask you to take nice kids and
fly them until they can't take anymore.

386
00:34:31,421 --> 00:34:34,151
And then put them back in
and fly them some more.

387
00:34:34,224 --> 00:34:37,159
We've got to find out
what a maximum effort is.

388
00:34:37,227 --> 00:34:40,788
How much a man can take
and get it all.

389
00:34:40,864 --> 00:34:45,028
I don't even know
if any man can do it.

390
00:34:45,101 --> 00:34:47,467
That's what cracked Keith.

391
00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:54,736
What time do you think you can
get down there tomorrow?

392
00:34:54,811 --> 00:34:57,575
Early, I guess.

393
00:34:57,647 --> 00:34:59,911
No squawks?

394
00:34:59,983 --> 00:35:02,918
Pretty hard to have one,
the way you put it.

395
00:35:02,986 --> 00:35:05,011
Thanks, Frank.

396
00:35:40,523 --> 00:35:42,957
- Smoke, Ernie?
- Thank you, sir.

397
00:36:10,119 --> 00:36:13,577
- All right, Sergeant.
- Yes, sir.

398
00:36:34,811 --> 00:36:36,745
- Do you know me, soldier?
- No, sir.

399
00:36:36,813 --> 00:36:40,806
- Then why are you admitting me to this station?
- I saw it was a staff car, sir.

400
00:36:40,883 --> 00:36:43,545
Goering could have been in it.

401
00:36:43,620 --> 00:36:47,021
- Here's my A.G.O. Card.
- The general may proceed, sir.

402
00:36:47,090 --> 00:36:49,888
Soldier, this is
a military post, not a zoo.

403
00:36:49,959 --> 00:36:52,928
From now on, you'll check everyone
who enters and without exception.

404
00:36:52,996 --> 00:36:54,930
Take a good look at me.

405
00:36:57,367 --> 00:37:03,237
If you or any man on this post passes me up
without saluting even if I'm a block away,

406
00:37:03,306 --> 00:37:05,331
you'll wonder what fell on you.

407
00:37:05,408 --> 00:37:09,572
<i>- You might pass that word around.
- Yes, sir.</i>

408
00:37:42,545 --> 00:37:45,309
- Locate my quarters and drop my bags off.
- Yes, sir.

409
00:37:45,381 --> 00:37:48,179
- Good luck, sir.
- Thanks, Ernie.

410
00:38:01,664 --> 00:38:04,462
How do I address you?

411
00:38:09,338 --> 00:38:11,966
I don't think
I quite understand the general, sir.

412
00:38:12,041 --> 00:38:14,236
What's your rank?
How am I supposed to know?

413
00:38:14,310 --> 00:38:16,710
Sergeant Mclllhenny, sir,
U.S. Army Air Forces.

414
00:38:16,779 --> 00:38:20,613
It's Private Mclllhenny now.
Where's the air exec?

415
00:38:22,351 --> 00:38:24,717
I... I don't think he's
on the station, sir.

416
00:38:24,787 --> 00:38:27,153
He left right after
Lieutenant Zimmerman's funeral.

417
00:38:27,223 --> 00:38:30,488
- Zimmerman?
- Yes, sir. Navigator, sir.

418
00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:33,791
- And what happened to him?
- Suicide, sir.

419
00:38:35,198 --> 00:38:39,862
- Where's the ground exec?
- In the hospital, sir, mumps.

420
00:38:39,936 --> 00:38:44,430
- And the adjutant?
- I think maybe Major Stovall's at the officer's club, sir.

421
00:38:44,507 --> 00:38:48,910
When you get your clothes on, find him
and ask him to report to me here.

422
00:38:48,978 --> 00:38:51,310
Yes, sir.

423
00:39:31,888 --> 00:39:34,049
Major Stovall, sir,
Group Adjutant.

424
00:39:34,123 --> 00:39:39,618
- Yes, I remember you, Major. You the only one around?
- Probably, sir.

425
00:39:39,695 --> 00:39:44,223
- I presume you've come down to take over the group.
- That's right.

426
00:39:46,569 --> 00:39:49,834
- Have you been drinking, Major?
- I have.

427
00:39:49,906 --> 00:39:52,875
It's the first time
I've been drunk in 20 years,

428
00:39:52,942 --> 00:39:55,172
but it may not be the last.

429
00:39:55,244 --> 00:39:58,213
- Where's the air exec?
- I don't know, sir.

430
00:39:58,281 --> 00:40:02,411
It's only an opinion, but I think
it's possible he may be drunk too, sir.

431
00:40:02,485 --> 00:40:05,579
- I'll take straight answers, Major. Is he off the station?
- Yes, sir.

432
00:40:05,655 --> 00:40:08,317
- Where?
- I don't know that, sir.

433
00:40:08,391 --> 00:40:11,383
Send the M.P. S out and find him
and bring him to me under arrest.

434
00:40:13,262 --> 00:40:17,528
- Does the general mean under actual arrest?
- Exactly.

435
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:20,262
Two... cancel all
leaves and passes...

436
00:40:20,336 --> 00:40:23,635
and make sure that all squadron
commanders are back here by tonight.

437
00:40:23,706 --> 00:40:25,867
Three... bring me
the personnel files,

438
00:40:25,942 --> 00:40:29,878
the 66-1 's on Gately
and the key staff...

439
00:40:29,946 --> 00:40:33,143
- including yours.
- Yes, sir.

440
00:40:33,216 --> 00:40:35,377
Four... set up a meeting
for all combat crews...

441
00:40:35,451 --> 00:40:38,978
in the briefing room
tomorrow morning at 0800.

442
00:40:39,055 --> 00:40:43,856
- Is that all, sir? Yes, sir.
- That's all.

443
00:41:04,914 --> 00:41:07,508
- Colonel Gately is here, sir.
- Send him in.

444
00:41:07,583 --> 00:41:09,574
Yes, sir.

445
00:41:28,271 --> 00:41:31,604
That's all, men.

446
00:41:41,851 --> 00:41:45,446
- May I ask the general why I've been placed under arrest?
- No.

447
00:41:52,295 --> 00:41:56,994
Stand at attention.

448
00:42:05,541 --> 00:42:09,238
You're the son of Lieutenant
General Tom Gately, aren't you?

449
00:42:09,312 --> 00:42:13,442
I believe that's
my standard identification, sir.

450
00:42:13,516 --> 00:42:16,883
- What do you think of him as an officer?
- None better, sir.

451
00:42:16,953 --> 00:42:19,683
That's right.

452
00:42:19,755 --> 00:42:24,658
You're the son of one fine officer
and the grandson of another.

453
00:42:24,727 --> 00:42:30,188
You're a graduate of West Point
with nine years service.

454
00:42:30,266 --> 00:42:35,101
You're form five shows that you have more
four engine time than any man in the group.

455
00:42:37,173 --> 00:42:42,873
For those reasons, you could've done more than
anybody to take the load off Colonel Davenport.

456
00:42:45,448 --> 00:42:50,317
The record shows that you've flown only
three missions since you've been here.

457
00:42:51,821 --> 00:42:55,882
- Is that right?
- If you don't count twice I turned back, sir.

458
00:43:03,432 --> 00:43:06,868
I take it that you don't even
care about the part you had...

459
00:43:06,936 --> 00:43:10,269
in breaking one of the best
men you'll ever know.

460
00:43:11,774 --> 00:43:14,868
Add to it as air exec you were
automatically in command here...

461
00:43:14,944 --> 00:43:18,209
the moment
Colonel Davenport left.

462
00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:22,876
And you met that responsibility
exactly as you met his need.

463
00:43:22,952 --> 00:43:27,946
You ran out on it.
You left the station to get drunk.

464
00:43:30,059 --> 00:43:35,827
And Gately, as far as I'm
concerned, you're yellow.

465
00:43:35,898 --> 00:43:41,029
A traitor to yourself, to this group,
to the uniform you wear.

466
00:43:42,772 --> 00:43:47,266
It would be the easiest course
for me to transfer you out,

467
00:43:47,309 --> 00:43:50,767
to saddle some unsuspecting guy
with a deadbeat.

468
00:43:50,813 --> 00:43:56,547
Maybe you think that's what you're gonna get
out of this, a free ride in some combat unit.

469
00:43:56,619 --> 00:43:59,782
But I'm not gonna pass the buck.

470
00:43:59,855 --> 00:44:02,824
I'm gonna keep you right here.

471
00:44:02,925 --> 00:44:08,329
I hate a man like you so much that I'm gonna
get your head down in the mud and tramp on it.

472
00:44:08,397 --> 00:44:11,560
I'm gonna make you wish
you'd never been born.

473
00:44:11,634 --> 00:44:15,331
- If that's all, sir...
- I'm just getting started.

474
00:44:15,404 --> 00:44:18,771
You're gonna stay right here
and get a bellyful of flying.

475
00:44:18,841 --> 00:44:21,002
You're going to make
every mission.

476
00:44:21,077 --> 00:44:25,173
You're not air exec anymore.
You're just an airplane commander.

477
00:44:25,247 --> 00:44:29,911
And I want you to paint this
name on the nose of your ship...

478
00:44:29,985 --> 00:44:31,953
Leper Colony.

479
00:44:32,054 --> 00:44:35,820
Because in it you're gonna get
every deadbeat in the outfit.

480
00:44:35,891 --> 00:44:38,485
Every man with a penchant
for head colds.

481
00:44:38,561 --> 00:44:41,928
If there's a bombardier who can't hit
his plate with his fork, you get him.

482
00:44:41,997 --> 00:44:44,659
If there's a navigator who can't find
the men's room, you get him.

483
00:44:44,733 --> 00:44:46,963
Because you rate him.

484
00:44:47,036 --> 00:44:51,336
- Is that clear?
- General Savage, I have a right to file charges against you...

485
00:44:51,407 --> 00:44:53,932
for personal abuse and exceeding
your lawful authority...

486
00:44:54,009 --> 00:44:57,445
Hello, get me Pinetree.
I want General Pritchard.

487
00:44:57,513 --> 00:45:00,641
- The line's busy, sir. Will you wait?
- Yeah, I'll wait.

488
00:45:00,716 --> 00:45:03,048
Rights, Gately?

489
00:45:03,119 --> 00:45:06,748
You've got a right to explain
to General Pritchard cowardice,

490
00:45:06,822 --> 00:45:11,122
desertion of your post,
a yellow streak a mile wide.

491
00:45:11,193 --> 00:45:14,458
And maybe he can explain it to your
father so they'll both be proud of you.

492
00:45:14,530 --> 00:45:18,626
- Hello. Hello?
- You can tell him right now.

493
00:45:18,701 --> 00:45:20,635
Hello, I have your line, sir.

494
00:45:20,703 --> 00:45:25,936
- General Savage, I withdraw my statement.
- Hello? Hello?

495
00:45:27,743 --> 00:45:31,839
- Hello, I have your line, sir.
- Never mind.

496
00:45:41,223 --> 00:45:43,384
That's all then.

497
00:46:19,195 --> 00:46:22,426
- Cut an order relieving Colonel Gately as air exec.
- Yes, sir.

498
00:46:22,498 --> 00:46:25,365
Anybody else, sir?

499
00:46:25,434 --> 00:46:28,096
I'll let you know, Major.

500
00:46:28,170 --> 00:46:33,369
There's one file there, Cobb, Squadron
Commander, shows a good record in the air.

501
00:46:33,475 --> 00:46:35,807
What are his personal
qualifications?

502
00:46:35,878 --> 00:46:41,510
I'm sure the general will be pleased
with any selection he makes in the group.

503
00:46:41,584 --> 00:46:43,552
Thanks for the help, Major.

504
00:46:43,619 --> 00:46:46,452
- I'll be around the station.
- Yes, sir.

505
00:46:54,930 --> 00:46:57,125
Sir.

506
00:46:57,199 --> 00:47:00,168
- I've been assigned as the general's driver.
- Fine.

507
00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:09,140
- Aren't you the clerk that I saw...
- Yes, sir. Private Mclllhenny.

508
00:47:09,211 --> 00:47:12,544
Well, general officers
rate sergeants as drivers.

509
00:47:12,615 --> 00:47:15,880
- Better put those stripes back on.
- Yes, sir.

510
00:47:19,922 --> 00:47:23,517
#With anyone else but me #

511
00:47:23,592 --> 00:47:27,392
<i>#Anyone else but me
Anyone else but me #</i>

512
00:47:27,463 --> 00:47:29,829
<i>- #No, no, no don't sit under the apple tree #
- Beer.</i>

513
00:47:29,898 --> 00:47:33,459
<i>- Yes, sir.
- # With anyone else but me #</i>

514
00:47:33,535 --> 00:47:38,302
<i># Till I come marching home #</i>

515
00:47:38,374 --> 00:47:43,107
<i>#Don't go walking down lovers'
lane with anyone else but me #</i>

516
00:47:43,212 --> 00:47:47,444
<i>#Anyone else but me
Anyone else but me #</i>

517
00:47:47,516 --> 00:47:50,653
<i>#No, no, no don't go
walking down lovers’ lane ##</i>

518
00:47:50,786 --> 00:47:53,778
Remove your cap
in the club, Major.

519
00:47:55,057 --> 00:47:58,493
- That's regulations, huh?
- It is.

520
00:48:09,238 --> 00:48:12,799
Have another,
Major Cobb.

521
00:48:12,875 --> 00:48:14,843
Scotch.

522
00:48:14,910 --> 00:48:19,006
- I've got it.
- No regulation against buying my own, is there?

523
00:48:19,081 --> 00:48:21,106
That's right.

524
00:48:31,226 --> 00:48:33,160
<i>- Corporal.
- Yes, sir.</i>

525
00:48:33,228 --> 00:48:38,962
This bar is closed for tonight and until further notice.

526
00:48:56,985 --> 00:48:58,953
<i>I'll probably see you
tomorrow morning.</i>

527
00:48:59,054 --> 00:49:04,458
<i>- Good night, Ben.
- Good night. I'll keep a light in the doghouse window for you.</i>

528
00:49:32,821 --> 00:49:34,755
<i>Come in.</i>

529
00:49:36,959 --> 00:49:41,953
Major Stovall, cut an order
assigning Major Cobb as air exec.

530
00:49:42,030 --> 00:49:44,999
Yes, sir.

531
00:49:45,100 --> 00:49:47,967
- Good night.
- Good night, sir.

532
00:50:48,964 --> 00:50:51,228
<i>Attention.</i>

533
00:51:06,682 --> 00:51:08,775
Rest.

534
00:51:15,757 --> 00:51:20,387
There will be a briefing for a practice
mission at 1100 this morning.

535
00:51:20,462 --> 00:51:23,625
That's right, practice.

536
00:51:23,732 --> 00:51:28,635
I've been sent here to take over what
has come to be known as a hard luck group.

537
00:51:28,670 --> 00:51:33,130
Well, I don't believe in hard luck. So
we're going to find out what the trouble is.

538
00:51:33,242 --> 00:51:37,975
Maybe part of it's your flying,
so we're going back to fundamentals.

539
00:51:39,648 --> 00:51:43,641
But I can tell you now one reason
I think you've been having hard luck.

540
00:51:43,719 --> 00:51:48,588
<i>I saw it in your faces last night.
I can see it there now.</i>

541
00:51:49,791 --> 00:51:53,750
You've been looking
at a lot of air lately...

542
00:51:53,829 --> 00:51:56,525
and you think
you ought to have a rest.

543
00:51:56,598 --> 00:51:59,533
In short,
you're sorry for yourselves.

544
00:51:59,601 --> 00:52:02,900
I don't have a lot of patience with this
what are we fighting for stuff.

545
00:52:02,971 --> 00:52:07,271
We're in a war, a shooting war.
We've got to fight.

546
00:52:07,342 --> 00:52:09,401
And some of us have got to die.

547
00:52:09,478 --> 00:52:14,575
I'm not trying to tell you
not to be afraid. Fear is normal.

548
00:52:14,650 --> 00:52:18,177
But stop worrying about it
and about yourselves.

549
00:52:18,253 --> 00:52:21,916
Stop making plans.
Forget about going home.

550
00:52:21,990 --> 00:52:23,924
Consider yourselves
already dead.

551
00:52:23,992 --> 00:52:27,826
<i>Once you accept that idea,
it won't be so tough.</i>

552
00:52:27,896 --> 00:52:31,832
Now if any man here
can't buy that,

553
00:52:31,934 --> 00:52:37,839
if he rates himself as something special,
with a special kind of hide to be saved,

554
00:52:37,906 --> 00:52:41,342
he'd better make up his mind
about it right now.

555
00:52:41,410 --> 00:52:45,847
<i>Because I don't
want him in this group.</i>

556
00:52:45,948 --> 00:52:50,317
I'll be in my office in five minutes.
You can see me there.

557
00:52:50,385 --> 00:52:52,512
Attention!

558
00:52:57,359 --> 00:53:01,022
<i>- I'll take Colonel Davenport any day.
- Me too.</i>

559
00:53:12,140 --> 00:53:16,167
I'd better get over to the office 'cause
the traffic is gonna be pretty heavy.

560
00:53:29,625 --> 00:53:32,594
The air exec and the group
flight surgeon are here, sir.

561
00:53:32,661 --> 00:53:34,629
- Tell them to come in.
- Yes, sir.

562
00:53:34,730 --> 00:53:39,531
They beat you to it, Major. I thought you'd
be the first one in line to ask for a transfer.

563
00:53:39,601 --> 00:53:42,570
- No, sir.
- Well, it wouldn't have done you any good.

564
00:53:42,638 --> 00:53:45,436
- Doesn't go for staff. You're stuck with me.
- Yes, sir.

565
00:53:45,507 --> 00:53:49,603
- You might tell them.
- They thought you'd want to see them about the practice mission.

566
00:53:49,678 --> 00:53:51,873
- Good.
- Yes, sir.

567
00:53:51,947 --> 00:53:56,384
For the general's information, I think
you'll find Major Kaiser a top man.

568
00:53:56,451 --> 00:53:58,646
Thorough,
knows his job, honest.

569
00:53:58,720 --> 00:54:03,680
I think Cobb's an excellent man too.
It's just he's a little too frank.

570
00:54:03,759 --> 00:54:05,920
- Thanks, Major.
- Yes, sir.

571
00:54:15,037 --> 00:54:17,904
- General, this is Major Kaiser.
- I'm glad to see you, Doc.

572
00:54:17,973 --> 00:54:22,034
- And I think you met Major Cobb.
- Indeed I have.

573
00:54:22,110 --> 00:54:25,637
General, I don't know if you still
want me here after last night.

574
00:54:25,714 --> 00:54:27,807
No need to tell you,
I was stiff.

575
00:54:27,883 --> 00:54:29,942
Well, stiff or not,
you laid it on the line.

576
00:54:30,052 --> 00:54:33,146
You got the job after I saw you
at the club, not before.

577
00:54:33,221 --> 00:54:36,748
You were in the briefing room.
You still want it?

578
00:54:36,858 --> 00:54:38,951
I think I can
cut it for you, sir.

579
00:54:39,027 --> 00:54:41,928
See you at takeoff.

580
00:54:44,700 --> 00:54:47,100
Now, what about the crew
availability, Major?

581
00:54:47,169 --> 00:54:49,763
We have a very critical
morale problem, General.

582
00:54:49,871 --> 00:54:53,773
You gave them the shock treatment
this morning, a bucket of cold water.

583
00:54:53,842 --> 00:54:56,606
I take it that's the key in which
you want me to approach the problem...

584
00:54:56,678 --> 00:54:59,442
as to how much
stress they can take.

585
00:54:59,514 --> 00:55:03,473
If a man is physically capable
of handling his airplane, he goes.

586
00:55:04,619 --> 00:55:07,417
Well, that's definite enough.

587
00:55:07,489 --> 00:55:10,424
But some things can't be
accomplished just by issuing an order.

588
00:55:10,492 --> 00:55:13,893
<i>- Have you seen the sick reports?
- Yeah, I've seen them.</i>

589
00:55:13,962 --> 00:55:16,931
Our sick reports indicate
something else to me.

590
00:55:16,998 --> 00:55:19,193
Besides the normal stress
of a lot of flying,

591
00:55:19,267 --> 00:55:24,432
these men have had the breaking up
of a strong personal attachment.

592
00:55:24,506 --> 00:55:26,599
They were devoted
to Colonel Davenport.

593
00:55:26,675 --> 00:55:31,203
<i>- He was the main thing they had to hold on to.
- You suggest a treatment?</i>

594
00:55:31,279 --> 00:55:34,771
Yes.
Ease up.

595
00:55:34,850 --> 00:55:38,943
Give them a chance
to get used to you.

596
00:55:39,855 --> 00:55:42,949
No, Major.

597
00:55:43,058 --> 00:55:46,827
For two reasons.
First, there isn't time.

598
00:55:46,862 --> 00:55:51,060
Second, I can't enter a popularity
contest with Keith Davenport.

599
00:55:51,166 --> 00:55:53,133
I'd lose that one.

600
00:55:53,168 --> 00:55:56,365
And one more thing, I think
they're better than that.

601
00:55:56,471 --> 00:55:58,939
All right, sir.
That's it.

602
00:56:00,275 --> 00:56:02,140
Lieutenant Bishop
to see you, sir.

603
00:56:02,210 --> 00:56:04,974
- Bishop? Who's he?
- A pilot, sir.

604
00:56:05,046 --> 00:56:09,483
Yesterday a recommendation for the Medal
of Honor was forwarded to you at Pinetree.

605
00:56:09,551 --> 00:56:13,248
- Oh, yes. I'll see him in just a minute.
- Yes, sir.

606
00:56:13,321 --> 00:56:15,812
I think I know how deep
the problem is here, Major.

607
00:56:15,924 --> 00:56:19,416
And I'm convinced that the one thing
that will solve it is pride,

608
00:56:19,528 --> 00:56:21,519
pride in this group.

609
00:56:21,630 --> 00:56:27,398
The kind of pride that will make it the last
thing a man wants to be left on the ground.

610
00:56:27,469 --> 00:56:30,495
And that's my job, not yours.

611
00:56:30,572 --> 00:56:35,168
- Paint it with iodine and mark them "duty," Doc.
- Yes, sir.

612
00:56:41,283 --> 00:56:43,251
- Yes, sir.
- Send Bishop in.

613
00:56:43,351 --> 00:56:45,410
Yes, sir.

614
00:56:52,227 --> 00:56:55,663
I better practice saluting you,
Lieutenant. That goes with the medal.

615
00:56:55,730 --> 00:57:00,099
- It was a privilege to add my name to that recommendation.
- Thank you, sir.

616
00:57:00,168 --> 00:57:03,626
- Sit down, Bishop.
- Thank you, sir, but...

617
00:57:03,738 --> 00:57:08,038
- Well, first, I better tell you why I'm here.
- Go ahead.

618
00:57:08,109 --> 00:57:11,237
The pilots asked me
to be their spokesman, sir.

619
00:57:11,346 --> 00:57:14,679
They want to transfer out.

620
00:57:14,749 --> 00:57:18,150
- How many of them?
- All of them, sir.

621
00:57:28,463 --> 00:57:32,229
Well, I can see why
they sent you, Bishop.

622
00:57:32,300 --> 00:57:35,235
You make quite a spokesman.

623
00:57:37,772 --> 00:57:39,967
Have you thought this out?

624
00:57:40,041 --> 00:57:42,839
You're sure that's
the way you feel?

625
00:57:42,911 --> 00:57:46,540
I... I think so, sir.

626
00:57:46,615 --> 00:57:49,914
All right, that's it. Tell them
to put their requests through channels.

627
00:57:49,985 --> 00:57:51,976
Meanwhile, they fly.

628
00:57:52,053 --> 00:57:54,180
- That's all then?
- Yes, sir.

629
00:58:19,748 --> 00:58:23,582
- Yes?
- I just made some coffee. I thought you might like some.

630
00:58:23,652 --> 00:58:26,815
- Shall I bring it in?
- Thanks, Major.

631
00:58:26,888 --> 00:58:28,913
I'll come out there and get it.

632
00:58:46,975 --> 00:58:49,739
What are you doing?

633
00:58:49,811 --> 00:58:54,839
Personal effects of boys who got it
to be sent to next of kin.

634
00:58:54,916 --> 00:58:58,613
I'm a little behind.
I always write a letter.

635
00:58:58,687 --> 00:59:02,054
It always takes time
to screen the stuff pretty well.

636
00:59:02,123 --> 00:59:06,287
It might save somebody back home
getting hurt unnecessarily.

637
00:59:07,762 --> 00:59:12,665
That's a tough chore.
I don't envy you.

638
00:59:12,734 --> 00:59:15,703
How did you happen
to get into paperwork?

639
00:59:15,804 --> 00:59:18,102
They didn't give me any choice.

640
00:59:18,173 --> 00:59:21,108
See, I'm... I'm a retread.

641
00:59:21,176 --> 00:59:23,974
I had my shot at combat
in the first war.

642
00:59:24,045 --> 00:59:26,013
Of course I kind of wanted
to get into this one,

643
00:59:26,114 --> 00:59:30,414
but I guess they figured
I was too old for anything but a desk.

644
00:59:30,485 --> 00:59:32,646
Maybe they were right.

645
00:59:36,224 --> 00:59:39,193
You, uh...

646
00:59:39,294 --> 00:59:43,822
You liked Keith Davenport,
didn't you? A lot, I mean.

647
00:59:43,932 --> 00:59:45,866
Yes, sir.

648
00:59:45,934 --> 00:59:49,700
I thought he was one
of the finest men I ever knew.

649
00:59:51,106 --> 00:59:54,075
The same way
the boys felt, I'm sure.

650
00:59:55,577 --> 00:59:57,909
Loyalty is a fine thing.

651
01:00:04,185 --> 01:00:08,281
Well.

652
01:00:08,356 --> 01:00:11,655
- Thanks for the coffee, Major.
- General Savage.

653
01:00:14,662 --> 01:00:17,756
I'd like to tell you
something else, I think.

654
01:00:20,769 --> 01:00:23,499
I'm a lawyer by trade.

655
01:00:23,571 --> 01:00:25,596
I think I'm a good one.

656
01:00:25,673 --> 01:00:27,834
And when a good lawyer takes on
a client, he does it because...

657
01:00:27,909 --> 01:00:31,868
he believes in the client's case,
and that's all that matters.

658
01:00:31,946 --> 01:00:34,881
When I came over to England
I took on my biggest client.

659
01:00:34,949 --> 01:00:37,611
That client
is the 918th Bomb Group.

660
01:00:37,685 --> 01:00:40,916
I want to see my client
win its case.

661
01:00:40,989 --> 01:00:43,219
Does that answer what
you had in mind?

662
01:00:43,291 --> 01:00:48,558
- On the button.
- What did you have in mind exactly?

663
01:00:48,630 --> 01:00:52,361
I need time before
those transfers go through.

664
01:00:52,434 --> 01:00:55,232
- Mm-hmm. How much time?
- As much as we can get.

665
01:00:55,303 --> 01:00:57,533
Ten days, anyway.

666
01:00:57,605 --> 01:01:00,904
Well, it'll take those
squadron adjutants...

667
01:01:00,975 --> 01:01:04,274
at least two days
to draw up all those requests.

668
01:01:04,345 --> 01:01:07,178
And, let's see...

669
01:01:07,248 --> 01:01:10,945
I believe in thorough, methodical work,
everything in order.

670
01:01:11,019 --> 01:01:13,214
I've got a good deal
of stuff on my desk here.

671
01:01:13,288 --> 01:01:16,746
So, it might be three days
before I could get around to them.

672
01:01:16,858 --> 01:01:20,191
- That's five.
- Take a couple of days to check them.

673
01:01:20,261 --> 01:01:23,628
That's seven.

674
01:01:23,698 --> 01:01:26,758
And those squadron adjutants
are pretty sloppy sometimes,

675
01:01:26,868 --> 01:01:30,827
and I certainly don't want this group
criticized for sloppy paperwork.

676
01:01:30,905 --> 01:01:32,873
- Do you, General?
- Couldn't permit it.

677
01:01:32,974 --> 01:01:35,204
So my guess is
every one of those requests...

678
01:01:35,276 --> 01:01:37,870
may have to go back to the squadron
adjutants to be done over.

679
01:01:37,946 --> 01:01:40,073
By the time I recheck them,

680
01:01:40,148 --> 01:01:43,948
it'll be ten days anyway before
they can be ready for signature.

681
01:01:49,023 --> 01:01:51,787
What a way
to run an outfit.

682
01:01:53,228 --> 01:01:57,790
- You red-tape adjutants are all alike.
- That's right, sir.

683
01:01:59,534 --> 01:02:03,595
But Harvey,
there can be trouble in this.

684
01:02:03,671 --> 01:02:08,267
I don't think so, sir. I never heard
of a jury convicting the lawyer.

685
01:02:34,802 --> 01:02:36,736
Let me have
your attention.

686
01:02:41,643 --> 01:02:45,477
Now, in case any of you aren't clear
as to what this is all about,

687
01:02:45,547 --> 01:02:47,640
I'm supposed
to be a deadbeat.

688
01:02:47,715 --> 01:02:50,479
And so are you.
That's why you were assigned to me...

689
01:02:50,552 --> 01:02:53,521
"The Leper Colony. "
How do you like it?

690
01:02:53,588 --> 01:02:57,752
Well, you'll like it a lot less
the first mistake you make.

691
01:02:57,825 --> 01:03:01,591
We've got a blowtorch turned our way,
and nobody's gonna shove me into it.

692
01:03:01,663 --> 01:03:04,291
<i>Is that clear?</i>

693
01:03:12,273 --> 01:03:14,207
- Everything set?
- Yes, sir.

694
01:03:14,275 --> 01:03:16,766
You fly. I'll ride
in the top turret where I can see.

695
01:03:16,844 --> 01:03:19,472
<i>- Radio, rig an extension to the top turret...
- Yes, sir.</i>

696
01:03:19,547 --> 01:03:22,072
- So the general can talk on the command set.
- Yes, sir.

697
01:03:22,150 --> 01:03:24,675
All right.
Let's go.

698
01:03:39,934 --> 01:03:42,926
"Close it up.
Close it up. Closer.

699
01:03:43,004 --> 01:03:45,302
Shove that there wingtip
right in his lap. "

700
01:03:45,373 --> 01:03:47,534
Sweet Savannah!

701
01:03:47,609 --> 01:03:49,634
That wingtip of Baxter's
been tickling me...

702
01:03:49,744 --> 01:03:51,678
right in the ribs
for three days now, man.

703
01:03:51,746 --> 01:03:54,112
- I'm gettin' mighty tired of it.
- That's a-tellin' 'em, Birdy.

704
01:03:54,182 --> 01:03:56,116
Yeah, and another thing
I noticed.

705
01:03:56,184 --> 01:03:59,244
For folks that talks about
other people's ability as a pilot,

706
01:03:59,320 --> 01:04:02,653
that there general seems mighty willin'
not to do any of it hisself.

707
01:04:02,724 --> 01:04:05,522
Hmph. Looks like we just
got ourselves a talking general.

708
01:04:05,593 --> 01:04:09,552
"Stack it in there, now. "

709
01:04:21,376 --> 01:04:24,106
<i>We're alerted, sir!</i>

710
01:04:24,178 --> 01:04:27,306
Field orders
coming in now.

711
01:04:27,382 --> 01:04:29,748
Tell Cobb to wheel and deal.
I'll be right over.

712
01:04:34,989 --> 01:04:37,685
<i>Operator. Operator.
Keep this line clear.</i>

713
01:04:37,759 --> 01:04:41,058
I've got 24 fast calls for you.
Get me the bomb dump and hurry.

714
01:04:41,129 --> 01:04:44,428
<i>#Bless them all
Bless them all #</i>

715
01:04:44,499 --> 01:04:47,991
<i># Oh, the long and the short
and the tall #</i>

716
01:04:48,069 --> 01:04:52,005
<i>#Let's bless all the blondies
and all the brunettes #</i>

717
01:04:52,073 --> 01:04:54,906
<i>#For each lad is happy
to take what he gets #</i>

718
01:04:54,976 --> 01:04:57,035
<i># 'Cause we're... ##</i>

719
01:05:01,249 --> 01:05:03,717
Two missions.
Only one aircraft lost.

720
01:05:03,785 --> 01:05:06,515
Very little battle damage.

721
01:05:06,587 --> 01:05:09,818
That's because most of the time
we flew good, tight formation.

722
01:05:09,891 --> 01:05:11,984
Those enemy fighters
took one look...

723
01:05:12,060 --> 01:05:14,290
and didn't want
any part of the 918th.

724
01:05:20,201 --> 01:05:23,967
The bad side...
the bombing.

725
01:05:24,038 --> 01:05:27,166
Fair. Particularly,
the Low Squadron.

726
01:05:27,241 --> 01:05:29,835
That means we start dropping practice bombs
every day that we haven't got a mission.

727
01:05:29,911 --> 01:05:32,072
- Cobb?
- Yes, sir.

728
01:05:32,146 --> 01:05:34,171
- That's your baby.
- Roger.

729
01:05:34,248 --> 01:05:36,341
Anybody got
any comment?

730
01:05:38,619 --> 01:05:40,712
Well, I've got some more.
Hanley!

731
01:05:40,788 --> 01:05:43,348
- Here, sir.
- Those strike photos show...

732
01:05:43,424 --> 01:05:45,688
that you've been toggling late
with your bombs the last two missions.

733
01:05:45,760 --> 01:05:50,094
- What's your reason?
- No excuse, sir.

734
01:05:50,164 --> 01:05:52,655
Well, I'll say this for you, Hanley,
you're honest.

735
01:05:52,734 --> 01:05:55,567
But nine men risked their lives
to ride with you...

736
01:05:55,636 --> 01:05:57,763
in order to put
bombs on a target!

737
01:05:57,839 --> 01:06:02,708
Gately, here's
a new bombardier for you.

738
01:06:02,777 --> 01:06:05,337
- Pettinghill!
- Yes, sir.

739
01:06:05,413 --> 01:06:09,611
We're plenty lucky to have only one loss
on this strike. Why did you break formation?

740
01:06:11,452 --> 01:06:13,420
Well, sir,
Ackerman was in trouble...

741
01:06:13,488 --> 01:06:18,255
Two engines on fire,
and we were getting enemy fighters. I...

742
01:06:18,326 --> 01:06:20,385
I figured I'd better stay back
and try to cover him...

743
01:06:20,461 --> 01:06:23,396
going into the target,
but he couldn't make it.

744
01:06:31,139 --> 01:06:33,073
Ackerman a pretty good
friend of yours?

745
01:06:33,141 --> 01:06:35,200
My roommate, sir.

746
01:06:38,179 --> 01:06:42,946
So for the sake of your roommate
you violated group integrity.

747
01:06:43,017 --> 01:06:45,042
Every gun on a B-17
is designed...

748
01:06:45,119 --> 01:06:47,451
to give the group
maximum defensive firepower.

749
01:06:47,522 --> 01:06:50,218
That's what I mean
by group integrity.

750
01:06:50,291 --> 01:06:52,623
When you pull a B-17
out of a formation,

751
01:06:52,693 --> 01:06:56,652
you reduce the defensive power
of the group by ten guns.

752
01:06:56,731 --> 01:06:59,928
A crippled airplane
has to be expendable.

753
01:07:00,001 --> 01:07:03,994
The one thing which is never expendable
is your obligation to this group!

754
01:07:04,071 --> 01:07:06,437
<i>This group.
This group.</i>

755
01:07:06,507 --> 01:07:09,635
<i>That has to be your loyalty,
your only reason for being.</i>

756
01:07:09,710 --> 01:07:11,940
- Stovall.
- Yes, sir.

757
01:07:12,013 --> 01:07:14,311
Have the billeting officer work out
a reassignment of quarters...

758
01:07:14,382 --> 01:07:16,873
- so that every man has a new roommate.
- Very well, sir.

759
01:07:16,951 --> 01:07:18,885
- Gately!
- Yes, sir.

760
01:07:18,953 --> 01:07:20,887
Baxter is promoted
out of the Leper Colony.

761
01:07:20,955 --> 01:07:23,116
Pettinghill's
your new copilot.

762
01:07:26,928 --> 01:07:29,897
Well,
that's all I've got.

763
01:07:29,964 --> 01:07:31,989
Anybody got anything else
they want to bring up?

764
01:07:32,066 --> 01:07:34,034
What about
our transfers, sir?

765
01:07:44,979 --> 01:07:50,110
- Okay, if that's all, dismissed.
- Attention!

766
01:07:55,156 --> 01:07:57,420
<i>Come in.</i>

767
01:07:59,327 --> 01:08:01,761
<i>Keith! Come on in.
Glad to see you.</i>

768
01:08:01,829 --> 01:08:03,763
How are you, Frank?

769
01:08:03,831 --> 01:08:05,765
How's the adjutant
business, Harvey?

770
01:08:05,833 --> 01:08:08,495
Just went out of that line of work, sir.
Ground exec now.

771
01:08:08,569 --> 01:08:11,834
- Well, glad to hear it. You had it coming.
- Thank you.

772
01:08:11,906 --> 01:08:14,272
- Good to see you, sir.
- Good to see you, Harvey.

773
01:08:14,342 --> 01:08:16,401
<i>- Piece of cake?
- Thanks.</i>

774
01:08:16,477 --> 01:08:18,877
Uh, birthday.
It's a little old.

775
01:08:18,946 --> 01:08:22,006
Oh, many happy returns.

776
01:08:23,784 --> 01:08:26,947
Well, seems to me
I've seen this joint before.

777
01:08:27,021 --> 01:08:29,546
It looks better
with you in it, Keith.

778
01:08:29,624 --> 01:08:31,819
Have a drink.
Say, you're in time for chow.

779
01:08:31,893 --> 01:08:34,293
- The boys'll be glad to see you.
- I'm not so sure of that.

780
01:08:34,362 --> 01:08:36,762
I saw Sergeant Keller
at the gate.

781
01:08:36,831 --> 01:08:40,289
Had to show my A.G.O. Card to get in.

782
01:08:40,368 --> 01:08:43,667
And I'll pass up the supper, I guess.
I just dropped down for a minute.

783
01:08:43,738 --> 01:08:45,672
I had something I wanted
to talk to you about, Frank.

784
01:08:45,740 --> 01:08:48,675
Well, I'll get on about
my ground exec-ing.

785
01:08:48,743 --> 01:08:52,338
- I'll see you before you go, Keith.
- All right.

786
01:08:54,315 --> 01:08:58,251
- Nice guy, Harvey.
- First-rate.

787
01:08:58,319 --> 01:09:00,253
Sit down.

788
01:09:00,321 --> 01:09:03,984
Aah, tastes good.
Gets the chill out of your bones.

789
01:09:04,058 --> 01:09:07,653
- What a stinkin' climate.
- It's pretty bad.

790
01:09:07,728 --> 01:09:11,357
Only I guess you didn't come down
to talk about the weather.

791
01:09:11,432 --> 01:09:14,697
No...
Or maybe I did at that.

792
01:09:18,673 --> 01:09:22,074
- There's a storm coming, Frank.
- The old man?

793
01:09:22,143 --> 01:09:24,839
No. I don't know
if he even knows about it.

794
01:09:24,912 --> 01:09:28,814
There's been a lot of talk about requests
for transfer, only none have come through.

795
01:09:28,883 --> 01:09:31,875
- Have you been sittin' on 'em?
- I have.

796
01:09:31,953 --> 01:09:34,888
You've got what amounts
to a mutiny on your hands.

797
01:09:34,956 --> 01:09:37,424
There's a rumor that
the inspector general's got hold of it.

798
01:09:37,491 --> 01:09:41,291
If he investigates you,
you're cooked.

799
01:09:41,362 --> 01:09:43,626
Can you slow him down?

800
01:09:43,698 --> 01:09:47,156
You know the Old Man
can't interfere with the I.G.

801
01:09:47,234 --> 01:09:50,226
I know what you're after... a little time,
get a few good missions under your belt,

802
01:09:50,304 --> 01:09:52,636
maybe the boys'll
change their minds.

803
01:09:52,707 --> 01:09:56,803
- But it won't work that way.
- You got any ideas?

804
01:09:56,877 --> 01:10:00,210
Well, to be perfectly frank
about it, when you took command,

805
01:10:00,281 --> 01:10:03,148
I was hoping you'd fail,
fall flat on your face.

806
01:10:03,217 --> 01:10:05,742
I'm that human.

807
01:10:05,820 --> 01:10:07,754
So now, me,
the guy who blew it...

808
01:10:07,822 --> 01:10:11,121
- wants to tell you how to run this group.
- Shoot.

809
01:10:11,192 --> 01:10:13,854
All right.
You're blowing it too.

810
01:10:13,928 --> 01:10:16,556
You can't drive those boys.
I told you once before...

811
01:10:16,631 --> 01:10:19,122
they can't just be
a set of numbers, and it still goes.

812
01:10:19,200 --> 01:10:22,192
The fact that I blew it
doesn't mean that idea was wrong.

813
01:10:22,269 --> 01:10:25,432
I figured it was me.
I wasn't good enough.

814
01:10:25,506 --> 01:10:27,838
You've got
to help them, Frank.

815
01:10:27,908 --> 01:10:31,674
You've got to take the time to win something
from them, or they will walk out on you.

816
01:10:31,746 --> 01:10:35,443
And that'll be a worse failure
than mine ever was.

817
01:10:35,516 --> 01:10:38,542
Give them something
to lean on, you mean.

818
01:10:38,619 --> 01:10:40,746
Call it
anything you like.

819
01:10:45,159 --> 01:10:47,389
Well, Keith,

820
01:10:54,101 --> 01:10:56,729
I don't believe it.

821
01:10:56,804 --> 01:10:59,238
Here's where
you and I part company.

822
01:10:59,306 --> 01:11:01,740
I don't think they're boys,
they're men.

823
01:11:01,809 --> 01:11:04,869
Too bad they have
to find out so young.

824
01:11:04,945 --> 01:11:08,676
How old is Bishop?
Twenty-one, maybe.

825
01:11:08,749 --> 01:11:12,708
It's pretty tough to have
to grow all the way up at 21.

826
01:11:12,787 --> 01:11:17,053
But that's the only way
we're gonna get the job done.

827
01:11:17,124 --> 01:11:19,888
And I think
they can do it too.

828
01:11:19,960 --> 01:11:23,896
Lean on somebody?
I think they're better than that.

829
01:11:23,964 --> 01:11:27,695
And if that's not true
then we're a dead duck,

830
01:11:27,768 --> 01:11:30,669
and we'd better find out
about it right now,

831
01:11:30,738 --> 01:11:32,899
once and for all.

832
01:11:32,973 --> 01:11:36,670
Well, that's that.

833
01:11:38,179 --> 01:11:40,204
You called the turn
for me once,

834
01:11:40,281 --> 01:11:42,749
and I couldn't
see it.

835
01:11:42,817 --> 01:11:46,218
Now we're even.

836
01:11:46,287 --> 01:11:49,848
- Good night, Frank.
- Good night, Keith.

837
01:12:10,945 --> 01:12:14,210
<i># The stars at night
are big and bright #</i>

838
01:12:14,281 --> 01:12:19,014
<i>#Deep in the heart of Texas #</i>

839
01:12:19,086 --> 01:12:22,988
<i>- # The prairie skies... ##
- Not again.</i>

840
01:12:26,160 --> 01:12:29,186
No good, sir. Acknowledgement from the
other groups, they've already turned back.

841
01:12:29,263 --> 01:12:31,561
- But nothing from the 918th.
- Forget code.

842
01:12:31,632 --> 01:12:33,964
- Try to reach him in the clear.
- Yes, sir.

843
01:12:34,034 --> 01:12:38,061
Pinetree
to Flashlight leader.

844
01:12:38,139 --> 01:12:40,107
This is a recall.
Do you read me?

845
01:12:40,174 --> 01:12:43,302
Pinetree to Flashlight leader.
Pinetree to Flashlight leader.

846
01:12:43,377 --> 01:12:46,107
This is a recall.
Do you read me? Over.

847
01:12:48,415 --> 01:12:51,543
- Nothing, sir.
- I don't get it.

848
01:12:51,652 --> 01:12:54,450
Weren't all commanders told to guard channel
"B" because of possible weather change?

849
01:12:54,555 --> 01:12:58,753
- It was in the field order, sir.
- Well... something's happened.

850
01:12:58,826 --> 01:13:01,158
They've gone on
to the target alone.

851
01:13:01,228 --> 01:13:04,391
I'm going down there, Keith.
I can't just stand here and take it.

852
01:13:15,342 --> 01:13:18,106
That's 21, sir.
They're all back.

853
01:13:18,179 --> 01:13:22,172
Well, that's something.
I'm glad we still have miracles.

854
01:13:57,418 --> 01:13:59,386
Well, we had
a little weather, sir,

855
01:13:59,453 --> 01:14:01,887
but the target area had
cleared off just long enough...

856
01:14:01,956 --> 01:14:04,925
- for the 918th to clobber it good.
- That's fine, Frank.

857
01:14:04,992 --> 01:14:07,893
- What about the recall?
- Recall, sir? What recall?

858
01:14:07,962 --> 01:14:09,930
Never heard it.

859
01:14:09,997 --> 01:14:12,830
- Must have had radio malfunction.
- I see.

860
01:14:12,900 --> 01:14:15,926
- Let's get up to your office, Frank.
- Yes, sir.

861
01:14:16,036 --> 01:14:19,267
- The bar's open, Harvey. The boy's really earned it.
- Yes, sir.

862
01:14:23,944 --> 01:14:27,038
<i>And you think I'm going
to buy a quick Persian rug...</i>

863
01:14:27,081 --> 01:14:29,447
<i>about a radio malfunction?</i>

864
01:14:31,151 --> 01:14:33,585
And I suppose you'll tell me next
the weather was just bad enough...

865
01:14:35,474 --> 01:14:38,272
- You didn't see the other groups turn back.
- Yes, sir.

866
01:14:38,343 --> 01:14:41,801
You've got no right to gamble
like that. Not with my money.

867
01:14:41,880 --> 01:14:43,905
It isn't enough that
I have to hold still while you graft...

868
01:14:43,982 --> 01:14:45,973
an inspector general
on my rump.

869
01:14:46,051 --> 01:14:48,849
I've managed to live without
inspector generals for 20-some years.

870
01:14:48,921 --> 01:14:51,754
And don't think you can justify this by
the fact that you got away with it, either!

871
01:14:51,824 --> 01:14:53,951
No, sir.
I didn't hear a thing.

872
01:14:54,026 --> 01:14:55,960
It must have been
radio malfunction.

873
01:14:56,028 --> 01:14:59,020
- Do you mean you're going to stick to that fairy tale?
- Yes, sir.

874
01:14:59,064 --> 01:15:02,192
There's one more thing
you might as well know, sir.

875
01:15:02,267 --> 01:15:07,728
The 918th got through today, and bombed
the target when nobody else did.

876
01:15:07,773 --> 01:15:10,003
And if Providence
ever drops into my lap,

877
01:15:10,075 --> 01:15:14,034
another chance like that to give this
group the pride it ought to have in itself,

878
01:15:14,079 --> 01:15:17,276
I may have
radio malfunction again, sir.

879
01:15:17,349 --> 01:15:19,874
And there's
one more thing.

880
01:15:19,952 --> 01:15:22,853
I'm asking you
for a commendation for this group,

881
01:15:22,921 --> 01:15:24,912
for their aggressiveness,
skill and courage...

882
01:15:24,990 --> 01:15:28,949
in reaching and bombing a target
under extremely adverse conditions.

883
01:15:28,994 --> 01:15:32,054
And you don't need to mention
their leadership, sir.

884
01:15:34,133 --> 01:15:36,431
All right, Frank,
you'll get it.

885
01:15:36,535 --> 01:15:39,368
And maybe someday I'll send you
one for leadership, I don't know.

886
01:15:40,873 --> 01:15:44,138
- Got somebody around here that can take dictation?
- Yes, sir!

887
01:15:46,044 --> 01:15:50,378
- Mclllhenny, bring a book and pencil in here.
- Yes, sir.

888
01:15:50,449 --> 01:15:52,610
Come on. Hurry up.
Hurry up. Hurry up.

889
01:15:55,621 --> 01:15:59,113
Relax, Harvey.
Mission accomplished.

890
01:16:04,463 --> 01:16:08,627
<i>#Poor little lambs #</i>

891
01:16:08,700 --> 01:16:13,194
<i># Who have lost
our way #</i>

892
01:16:13,272 --> 01:16:16,730
<i>#Baa, baa, baa #</i>

893
01:16:16,775 --> 01:16:22,304
- What do you make of it, Harvey?
- I don't know. I can't make it out quite.

894
01:16:22,381 --> 01:16:24,508
They're pleased about
the commendation, I think, but...

895
01:16:24,583 --> 01:16:27,950
they're not celebrating
the way kids ought to.

896
01:16:28,020 --> 01:16:31,512
It's not normal.

897
01:16:31,590 --> 01:16:37,460
<i>- #Baa, baa, baa #
- No cries for Savage for President then.</i>

898
01:16:37,496 --> 01:16:40,124
I don't know.

899
01:16:44,136 --> 01:16:46,127
Get ahold
of Jesse Bishop.

900
01:16:46,205 --> 01:16:50,232
Tell him I'd like to see him in my quarters.

901
01:16:52,878 --> 01:16:56,678
- Smoke, Bishop?
- No, thank you, sir.

902
01:16:56,748 --> 01:16:58,682
I wanted to talk
with you, Bishop,

903
01:16:58,750 --> 01:17:01,150
- because I know you'll level with me.
- Yes, sir.

904
01:17:01,220 --> 01:17:04,212
I wish you'd try to tell me
what you're feeling.

905
01:17:04,323 --> 01:17:06,723
- Right now. Right this minute.
- About what, sir?

906
01:17:06,758 --> 01:17:11,127
The transfers. The fact this group showed
the rest of them how it's done today.

907
01:17:11,230 --> 01:17:13,460
Whether you're
proud of that.

908
01:17:13,532 --> 01:17:15,932
Sir, I don't think I have any right
to speak for the rest...

909
01:17:16,001 --> 01:17:18,697
Then, don't speak
for the rest of them, just you.

910
01:17:20,005 --> 01:17:22,496
Well, sir,
that's hard. I...

911
01:17:22,574 --> 01:17:25,407
I don't know
how I feel.

912
01:17:25,477 --> 01:17:28,810
That's...
That's kind of the trouble.

913
01:17:28,881 --> 01:17:30,940
What is?

914
01:17:31,016 --> 01:17:33,246
Well, the...
the whole thing, sir.

915
01:17:33,318 --> 01:17:35,912
Everything.

916
01:17:35,988 --> 01:17:39,116
I can't see what good
we're doing with our bombing,

917
01:17:39,191 --> 01:17:42,092
and all the boys
getting killed.

918
01:17:42,160 --> 01:17:45,323
Just a handful of us.
It's like we...

919
01:17:45,397 --> 01:17:47,388
We're some kind
of guinea pigs,

920
01:17:47,466 --> 01:17:50,264
<i>only we're not
proving anything.</i>

921
01:17:50,335 --> 01:17:52,326
<i>You've got to have
confidence in something.</i>

922
01:17:53,839 --> 01:17:57,605
And then, when you find something
you've got confidence in...

923
01:17:57,676 --> 01:17:59,610
then everything changes.

924
01:17:59,678 --> 01:18:02,670
It just doesn't make
any sense, I don't know.

925
01:18:02,714 --> 01:18:04,648
I just want out.

926
01:18:04,716 --> 01:18:08,379
Well, do you think it'll
be any better in another group?

927
01:18:08,453 --> 01:18:11,217
It isn't a question of that, sir.
I don't want to fly anymore.

928
01:18:11,290 --> 01:18:14,521
I want to transfer
to another branch.

929
01:18:14,593 --> 01:18:19,189
Doesn't it mean anything to you that
we hit the target today with no losses?

930
01:18:19,264 --> 01:18:21,391
Yes, sir.

931
01:18:21,466 --> 01:18:25,027
I suppose so...
in a way.

932
01:18:25,103 --> 01:18:28,197
But I just want out.

933
01:18:29,675 --> 01:18:35,136
Well...
that's a...

934
01:18:35,213 --> 01:18:37,738
pretty tough request...

935
01:18:37,816 --> 01:18:39,750
from a Medal of Honor man.

936
01:18:43,288 --> 01:18:45,882
Sure, we're guinea pigs,
Jesse.

937
01:18:45,958 --> 01:18:50,691
But there's a reason.
If we can hang on here now...

938
01:18:50,762 --> 01:18:53,230
one day soon...

939
01:18:53,298 --> 01:18:55,732
somebody's
gonna look up...

940
01:18:55,801 --> 01:19:00,363
and see a solid overcast
of American bombers...

941
01:19:00,439 --> 01:19:04,739
on the way to Germany
to hit the Third Reich where it lives.

942
01:19:04,810 --> 01:19:08,610
Maybe we won't be the ones
to see it. I can't promise you that.

943
01:19:08,680 --> 01:19:11,114
But I can promise you
that they'll be there...

944
01:19:11,183 --> 01:19:14,311
if only we can manage
to make the grade now!

945
01:19:18,156 --> 01:19:20,522
I'd like
to believe you, sir.

946
01:19:23,562 --> 01:19:26,656
I just don't have confidence
in anything anymore.

947
01:19:40,479 --> 01:19:43,039
Well...

948
01:19:44,483 --> 01:19:49,682
looks like I'm choppin'
and no chips are flyin'.

949
01:19:53,525 --> 01:19:56,619
It's easy to transfer
out of a group, Jesse.

950
01:19:56,695 --> 01:20:01,632
It's pretty hard for a man
to transfer out of his obligation.

951
01:20:03,769 --> 01:20:07,500
But then every man has to play it
the way he sees it.

952
01:20:09,908 --> 01:20:13,571
- Well, good night, Jesse.
- Good night, sir.

953
01:20:39,337 --> 01:20:41,498
- How is it going?
- Beats me.

954
01:20:41,573 --> 01:20:44,406
The inspector's got every pilot
on the base in there. Gimme a cigarette.

955
01:20:44,476 --> 01:20:48,003
<i>- You want a light too?
- I have only the habit, Lieutenant.</i>

956
01:20:57,355 --> 01:21:01,621
Well, they're still
at it, sir.

957
01:21:01,693 --> 01:21:04,821
You know, Harvey, you're gonna make
a silly-looking second lieutenant.

958
01:21:04,896 --> 01:21:07,262
Want some advice
from your lawyer, sir?

959
01:21:07,332 --> 01:21:09,357
Don't ever give up the case
before the jury comes in.

960
01:21:09,434 --> 01:21:11,766
Don't kid yourself.
We've already had it.

961
01:21:11,837 --> 01:21:14,806
Well, so what? What's so bad
about the Pentagon building?

962
01:21:14,873 --> 01:21:18,110
<i>Good food, cocktails every night.</i>

963
01:21:20,378 --> 01:21:23,279
Well, sir, that was
short and sweet.

964
01:21:23,348 --> 01:21:25,282
Yeah,
I'll bet it was.

965
01:21:26,885 --> 01:21:29,012
Well, you might
as well unpack, General.

966
01:21:29,087 --> 01:21:31,521
The I.G. Didn't even get
to make a good opening speech.

967
01:21:31,590 --> 01:21:34,991
Bishop started it, withdrawing his
transfer. He really went to bat for you.

968
01:21:35,060 --> 01:21:37,528
Wilson followed, and the rest
of them just climbed aboard.

969
01:21:37,596 --> 01:21:40,759
Left the I.G. With nothing to do
but pack up his hatchet and go home.

970
01:21:40,832 --> 01:21:44,131
Well, what do you know?

971
01:21:52,811 --> 01:21:56,611
Where's that briefcase of mine?
I had it a minute ago.

972
01:21:56,681 --> 01:21:58,649
I knew those jokers
couldn't buck you forever.

973
01:21:58,717 --> 01:22:00,685
They finally realized they had
a chance to hit the target...

974
01:22:00,752 --> 01:22:02,845
and get home when
you were up front leading.

975
01:22:02,921 --> 01:22:04,912
Well, they better not count
on any one man.

976
01:22:04,990 --> 01:22:07,117
Don't want to make
that mistake again.

977
01:22:07,192 --> 01:22:09,160
You know, General,
it wouldn't be any mistake...

978
01:22:09,227 --> 01:22:11,457
to cut loose with a few
three-day passes to London.

979
01:22:11,530 --> 01:22:13,657
Sort of, uh...
a pat on the back.

980
01:22:14,866 --> 01:22:18,893
I see what you mean.
Kiss and make up, huh?

981
01:22:22,474 --> 01:22:25,466
You kiss them, Joe,
for shedding their diapers.

982
01:22:25,544 --> 01:22:27,478
And while you're at it, tell 'em
we're going to work now...

983
01:22:27,546 --> 01:22:29,537
and try to build
some leadership around here.

984
01:22:29,614 --> 01:22:31,582
And when it comes
to counting on me,

985
01:22:31,650 --> 01:22:33,641
tell 'em that you're
gonna lead the next one.

986
01:22:33,718 --> 01:22:36,414
And it better be good.
And tell Bishop he's gonna lead...

987
01:22:36,488 --> 01:22:38,888
and find out what it feels like
to carry the load.

988
01:22:38,957 --> 01:22:41,687
I want this group combed
for every man who shows signs...

989
01:22:41,760 --> 01:22:44,194
of being able
to lead a mule to water.

990
01:22:44,262 --> 01:22:46,696
And I want every one of 'em
to have a crack at it.

991
01:22:46,765 --> 01:22:49,131
You're out from under those
second lieutenant bars, Harvey,

992
01:22:49,201 --> 01:22:51,260
so don't just stand around
with your thumb in your mouth.

993
01:22:51,336 --> 01:22:53,861
Let's get back to work.

994
01:22:56,741 --> 01:22:59,710
What did he have to burn
three feet off my tail surface for?

995
01:22:59,778 --> 01:23:01,712
- Tough man, isn't he?
- There's such a thing...

996
01:23:01,780 --> 01:23:04,112
as carrying this business
of being iron-tailed too far.

997
01:23:04,182 --> 01:23:07,674
Yeah, he's-he's
pretty iron-tailed.

998
01:23:07,752 --> 01:23:11,313
He'll never feel things about the group
the way Keith Davenport did.

999
01:23:11,389 --> 01:23:13,619
And nothing's going to start
eating holes through him.

1000
01:23:13,692 --> 01:23:17,458
<i>- He's too tough for that.
- There's also such a thing as being human.</i>

1001
01:23:17,529 --> 01:23:22,193
You know something, Joe? The only
difference between Frank Savage...

1002
01:23:22,267 --> 01:23:24,895
and Keith Davenport
is that...

1003
01:23:24,970 --> 01:23:28,929
Savage is about, uh,
that much taller.

1004
01:23:29,040 --> 01:23:31,133
I don't get it.

1005
01:23:32,844 --> 01:23:37,144
Hey, Joe, how come you ain't leadin' this one?

1006
01:23:37,249 --> 01:23:40,417
You been a bad boy?

1007
01:23:40,452 --> 01:23:43,751
You know Joe, he only leads
the milk runs. This one must be a doozy.

1008
01:23:43,855 --> 01:23:47,188
Come on, Joe, where we goin'?
Pull back that curtain. Give us a peek.

1009
01:23:47,259 --> 01:23:49,819
You'll wish I was leadin' it.
You're gonna love this one.

1010
01:23:49,894 --> 01:23:52,158
Attention!

1011
01:24:01,206 --> 01:24:03,231
Rest!

1012
01:24:06,011 --> 01:24:08,377
Gentlemen, this you'll
be interested to know.

1013
01:24:08,446 --> 01:24:10,471
Intelligence
informs us...

1014
01:24:10,548 --> 01:24:13,517
that the German aircraft industry
has been converted...

1015
01:24:13,585 --> 01:24:17,351
almost entirely to the production
of fighter planes for defense,

1016
01:24:17,422 --> 01:24:20,516
<i>and that these fighters are being
withdrawn from the Russian front...</i>

1017
01:24:20,592 --> 01:24:23,459
<i>to beef up
the defense on this front.</i>

1018
01:24:23,528 --> 01:24:26,497
Looks like they must
have heard about the 918th.

1019
01:24:29,901 --> 01:24:32,699
And this morning we have
a mission of some importance.

1020
01:24:32,771 --> 01:24:35,239
- For the first time...
- Germany!

1021
01:24:35,307 --> 01:24:38,242
You said it.

1022
01:24:42,080 --> 01:24:45,208
- Wilhelmshaven.
- Wilhelmshaven.

1023
01:24:45,283 --> 01:24:49,083
For the first time we're going
to be hitting a target on German soil.

1024
01:24:49,154 --> 01:24:51,088
I'll lead
the group on this one.

1025
01:24:51,156 --> 01:24:53,989
Bishop, the High Squadron.
Holloman, the Low Squadron.

1026
01:24:54,059 --> 01:24:58,052
- All right, Joe.
- Stations: 0700.

1027
01:24:58,129 --> 01:25:01,098
Start engines: 0710.

1028
01:25:01,166 --> 01:25:03,464
Taxi: 0720.

1029
01:25:56,087 --> 01:25:58,612
Got a cigarette?

1030
01:26:17,809 --> 01:26:20,107
They're heading in, Major.
We just got a reading.

1031
01:26:20,178 --> 01:26:22,305
- How many?
- I don't know, sir.

1032
01:26:24,416 --> 01:26:28,250
Here they come.
They're approaching the field.

1033
01:26:58,483 --> 01:27:00,815
Nine.

1034
01:27:18,503 --> 01:27:22,439
- Fourteen.
- Fifteen. Sixteen.

1035
01:28:10,522 --> 01:28:14,253
- How was it, sir?
- It was rough.

1036
01:28:14,325 --> 01:28:17,123
- They were waiting for us. What's the count?
- Two missing, sir.

1037
01:28:17,195 --> 01:28:19,925
It looked like four, but O'Neill made it
to the RAF field at Lincolnshire.

1038
01:28:19,998 --> 01:28:23,195
Gately ditched in the Channel.
Air-Sea Rescue picked 'em up.

1039
01:28:23,268 --> 01:28:25,236
- Two wounded but not bad.
- Well, that helps some.

1040
01:28:25,303 --> 01:28:27,271
<i>- Let's get up to interrogation.
- Yes, sir.</i>

1041
01:28:41,386 --> 01:28:43,217
<i>Mclllhenny!</i>

1042
01:28:43,288 --> 01:28:45,518
Yes, sir!

1043
01:28:47,825 --> 01:28:51,693
- Were you in my ship?
- No, sir.

1044
01:28:52,864 --> 01:28:55,355
That is...
Yes, sir.

1045
01:28:55,433 --> 01:28:58,960
- Who authorized it?
- No one, sir, but I been checked out as a gunner,

1046
01:28:59,037 --> 01:29:02,097
and I just had
to make the big ones.

1047
01:29:02,173 --> 01:29:06,041
I won't have ground personnel
jeopardizing the safety of the aircraft.

1048
01:29:06,110 --> 01:29:08,305
Maybe it'll help you keep
your feet on the ground...

1049
01:29:08,379 --> 01:29:10,540
if you take those
stripes off again.

1050
01:29:10,615 --> 01:29:12,981
And this time
you'll stay a private.

1051
01:29:14,152 --> 01:29:18,418
- Get up to interrogation.
- Yes, sir.

1052
01:29:28,967 --> 01:29:31,936
I want a critique of the mission
first thing in the morning, Joe.

1053
01:29:33,438 --> 01:29:36,498
Looks like we might stand down
a few days with the weather.

1054
01:29:36,574 --> 01:29:38,872
Maybe we're ready
to give 'em a breather.

1055
01:29:38,943 --> 01:29:41,639
- Peel out some passes for London.
- Yes, sir.

1056
01:29:41,713 --> 01:29:45,080
General, I got to talk to you
about Sergeant Mclllhenny.

1057
01:29:45,149 --> 01:29:48,641
- What about him?
- You're busting him. That kind of makes things complicated.

1058
01:29:48,720 --> 01:29:52,156
- What's complicated about that?
- It's the precedent, sir.

1059
01:29:52,223 --> 01:29:54,885
I mean, we'd have to bust
Captain Twombley too.

1060
01:29:54,959 --> 01:29:57,757
The Padre?
What's he got to do with it?

1061
01:29:57,795 --> 01:29:59,763
He stowed away, too,
with Bishop.

1062
01:29:59,797 --> 01:30:01,958
They were over Wilhelmshaven
before Bishop found out.

1063
01:30:02,033 --> 01:30:03,967
He heard the parson
praying on the interphone...

1064
01:30:04,035 --> 01:30:06,595
while he was firing
the left waist gun.

1065
01:30:09,807 --> 01:30:12,640
Well, now I've heard everything.

1066
01:30:12,710 --> 01:30:14,803
I'm afraid
you haven't, sir.

1067
01:30:14,879 --> 01:30:16,938
I, uh, might as well
give it to you in one slug.

1068
01:30:17,015 --> 01:30:18,949
No thank you, sir.

1069
01:30:19,017 --> 01:30:22,043
Harvey Stovall and Doc Kaiser flew
as waist gunners with Klein.

1070
01:30:22,120 --> 01:30:24,953
I guess the whole ground echelon
was someplace on this one.

1071
01:30:26,691 --> 01:30:30,218
- Any of ‘em hurt?
- Don't think so, sir.

1072
01:30:30,294 --> 01:30:33,058
There's one more thing
about Mclllhenny... kind of awkward.

1073
01:30:33,131 --> 01:30:37,192
He's just been credited with two F.W. S
destroyed and one probable.

1074
01:30:37,268 --> 01:30:40,294
A born gunner,
I guess.

1075
01:30:45,810 --> 01:30:50,110
- Did you know about this, Joe?
- No, sir, I didn't.

1076
01:30:50,181 --> 01:30:52,843
- I hope you don't think I...
- All right. All right.

1077
01:31:01,793 --> 01:31:05,160
<i>Twombley! Stovall!</i>

1078
01:31:05,229 --> 01:31:07,925
Come over here.

1079
01:31:24,515 --> 01:31:26,983
Well, you're pretty proud
of yourselves, I suppose.

1080
01:31:29,020 --> 01:31:32,888
- Well, let me tell you...
- I was hoping the general wouldn't go into this right now.

1081
01:31:32,924 --> 01:31:35,722
I think I'm suffering
from combat fatigue.

1082
01:31:40,631 --> 01:31:44,328
Harvey, I'm gonna
weaken just this once,

1083
01:31:44,402 --> 01:31:46,962
and I'll probably live
to regret it.

1084
01:31:47,038 --> 01:31:50,098
But you got the bulge on me.
I can't bust everybody.

1085
01:31:50,174 --> 01:31:54,338
But it's with the clear understanding
that your combat days are over.

1086
01:31:54,412 --> 01:31:56,812
An old fud like you
ought to know better.

1087
01:31:56,881 --> 01:32:00,510
I won't be put in the spot of having
to write that letter to your wife.

1088
01:32:00,585 --> 01:32:04,715
You, Padre.
Your business is sin.

1089
01:32:04,789 --> 01:32:07,917
Hereafter, you'll confine your
activities to that theater of operations.

1090
01:32:07,992 --> 01:32:10,017
Is that clear?

1091
01:32:10,094 --> 01:32:12,654
Yes, sir.

1092
01:32:17,435 --> 01:32:20,029
Did you hit anything
up there, Harvey?

1093
01:32:20,104 --> 01:32:22,334
Well, sir, my glasses
were frosted over some,

1094
01:32:22,406 --> 01:32:25,842
but I think
I got a piece of one.

1095
01:32:25,910 --> 01:32:28,674
Ours or theirs?

1096
01:32:37,622 --> 01:32:41,649
Mclllhenny, I heard
about those two F.W.s.

1097
01:32:41,726 --> 01:32:45,218
- Put the chevrons back on, Sergeant.
- Yes, sir.

1098
01:32:45,296 --> 01:32:47,457
And if we're gonna keep
having these ups and downs,

1099
01:32:47,532 --> 01:32:51,366
- I suggest you get 'em with zippers.
- Yes, sir!

1100
01:32:56,707 --> 01:32:59,870
<i>- When are they due back?
- Any time now.</i>

1101
01:33:40,551 --> 01:33:43,645
Call the tower.
Get a count.

1102
01:33:43,721 --> 01:33:46,281
- Tower.
- Tower.

1103
01:33:46,357 --> 01:33:51,090
- What's the count?
- Twenty back. One missing... 3-9-7.

1104
01:33:51,162 --> 01:33:54,256
We lost one...
3-9-7.

1105
01:33:56,534 --> 01:33:58,866
Lieutenant Bishop, sir.

1106
01:34:07,478 --> 01:34:09,537
All right.
Thanks, Sergeant.

1107
01:34:35,840 --> 01:34:38,707
Junker 88s,
and FW-190.

1108
01:34:38,776 --> 01:34:42,007
<i>- Uh, what direction were they comin' in?
- Oh, they... Mostly head on.</i>

1109
01:34:42,079 --> 01:34:44,047
See any chutes open?

1110
01:34:44,115 --> 01:34:47,778
No. Jesse caught a direct
burst right over the target.

1111
01:34:47,852 --> 01:34:51,549
They...
They didn't have a chance.

1112
01:34:51,622 --> 01:34:55,080
He was a swell kid, and one
of the best pilots in the group.

1113
01:34:55,126 --> 01:34:57,219
<i>- He would have to get it.
- One crew...</i>

1114
01:34:57,295 --> 01:34:59,229
It could've been
much worse, Joe.

1115
01:34:59,297 --> 01:35:02,164
- What about battle damage?
- Everybody caught plenty.

1116
01:35:04,869 --> 01:35:07,337
- More coffee, General? -
General... - Coffee, Captain?

1117
01:35:07,405 --> 01:35:10,465
No, thank you. I tired to reach you
on the phone to tell you about Gately.

1118
01:35:10,541 --> 01:35:12,634
Well, what about him?
Did he get hit today?

1119
01:35:12,710 --> 01:35:17,443
No, sir. But right after he landed,
he folded up... passed out cold.

1120
01:35:17,515 --> 01:35:19,779
I guess I should have
made an examination before,

1121
01:35:19,850 --> 01:35:23,013
but he didn't report any injury when
he ditched in the Channel the other day.

1122
01:35:23,087 --> 01:35:27,319
I've seen his X-rays. He has a crack
in the lip of the vertebrate body.

1123
01:35:29,727 --> 01:35:32,195
- Painful?
- Incredibly.

1124
01:35:32,263 --> 01:35:34,356
And he's flown
three missions with it.

1125
01:35:39,603 --> 01:35:43,061
- A fractured spine?
- That's about what it amounts to.

1126
01:35:43,140 --> 01:35:45,335
I've put him
in traction.

1127
01:35:47,278 --> 01:35:49,803
Gately...

1128
01:35:49,880 --> 01:35:52,178
Okay, Doc.

1129
01:35:52,249 --> 01:35:55,047
Thanks for
letting me know.

1130
01:35:55,119 --> 01:35:57,986
<i>- Now, I'll have that coffee.
- Fine.</i>

1131
01:37:00,885 --> 01:37:04,321
Anybody in particular
you'd like to see, sir?

1132
01:37:04,388 --> 01:37:08,017
Oh, no thanks, Lieutenant,
just looking around.

1133
01:37:08,092 --> 01:37:10,117
<i>You go right on
with what you were doing.</i>

1134
01:37:10,194 --> 01:37:12,219
Yes, sir.

1135
01:37:15,332 --> 01:37:18,460
Well, looks like that's gonna cut in
on your crap shooting, Dwight.

1136
01:37:18,536 --> 01:37:20,595
Yes, sir.
It's costing me money.

1137
01:37:20,671 --> 01:37:23,299
- How long they gonna keep you in here?
- Doc said ten days.

1138
01:37:23,374 --> 01:37:26,036
- Well, you let me know if I can do anything.
- Thanks, General.

1139
01:37:26,110 --> 01:37:28,078
What do you say, Birdwell?

1140
01:37:28,145 --> 01:37:31,046
- They got all that flak out of you yet?
- Just about, sir.

1141
01:37:31,115 --> 01:37:34,175
Doc didn't need no mine
detector to find it, neither.

1142
01:37:34,251 --> 01:37:36,378
You getting
enough chow?

1143
01:37:36,454 --> 01:37:40,049
Oh, just livin'
in the tall cotton, sir.

1144
01:37:48,599 --> 01:37:52,865
- Well, how you feeling, Ben?
- I'm okay, General.

1145
01:37:52,937 --> 01:37:56,168
I was sorry to hear
about your bad luck.

1146
01:37:56,240 --> 01:37:58,731
Thank you, sir.

1147
01:37:58,809 --> 01:38:01,141
Well, I see Doc
didn't waste much time...

1148
01:38:02,480 --> 01:38:05,540
Oh, excuse me, Ben.

1149
01:38:05,616 --> 01:38:08,608
That's pretty
sensitive, huh?

1150
01:38:08,686 --> 01:38:11,519
That's okay, General.

1151
01:38:12,756 --> 01:38:15,657
Go ahead and sit down.

1152
01:38:15,726 --> 01:38:18,456
Oh, I'd rather stand.

1153
01:38:18,529 --> 01:38:23,228
I've been piling up more
sitting time than flying time, anyway.

1154
01:38:23,300 --> 01:38:25,598
Hey, what kind
of a gadget is this...

1155
01:38:25,669 --> 01:38:28,399
part of the Wright Brothers'
first airplane?

1156
01:38:28,472 --> 01:38:31,999
Looks uncomfortable enough.

1157
01:38:32,076 --> 01:38:34,510
Uh, help the back any?

1158
01:38:34,612 --> 01:38:37,410
Relieves the pressure
quite a bit, sir.

1159
01:38:37,481 --> 01:38:41,008
How long, uh, Doc say
you're gonna be laid up?

1160
01:38:41,085 --> 01:38:44,282
A few weeks, sir.

1161
01:38:44,355 --> 01:38:48,291
- Is it pretty painful?
- Not much, sir.

1162
01:38:49,660 --> 01:38:52,595
All right. I guess you don't
feel much like talking...

1163
01:38:52,663 --> 01:38:55,291
That's okay, General.
Go right ahead.

1164
01:39:00,771 --> 01:39:06,676
Um...
Ben...

1165
01:39:08,812 --> 01:39:10,746
Yes, sir?

1166
01:39:17,354 --> 01:39:20,790
L- I was just
gonna say, uh...

1167
01:39:20,858 --> 01:39:25,591
Anything you want?
Something I can send you?

1168
01:39:29,400 --> 01:39:33,632
Not a thing, General.
I've got everything I need.

1169
01:39:35,606 --> 01:39:38,166
You just let us know
if you do need anything.

1170
01:39:39,109 --> 01:39:41,043
Thank you, sir.

1171
01:39:44,915 --> 01:39:49,477
I, uh... I'm gonna drop in
across the hall.

1172
01:39:50,888 --> 01:39:53,584
I'll be seeing you, Ben.

1173
01:40:26,056 --> 01:40:29,787
Looks like I'll have to rate you
a "class-A" customer, Colonel.

1174
01:40:29,860 --> 01:40:33,296
I just learned
you're something extra special.

1175
01:40:51,682 --> 01:40:53,616
Gentlemen,

1176
01:40:53,684 --> 01:40:57,051
this mission has been handed us
by the Combined Chiefs of Staff.

1177
01:40:57,121 --> 01:40:59,089
It is a target
of critical importance,

1178
01:40:59,156 --> 01:41:02,284
which will require a deeper penetration
than any we have made...

1179
01:41:02,359 --> 01:41:05,351
far beyond
possible fighter support.

1180
01:41:05,429 --> 01:41:07,488
If we can attack
and destroy it,

1181
01:41:07,564 --> 01:41:10,397
we will have proved
daylight precision bombing.

1182
01:41:10,467 --> 01:41:12,594
This is the one
we have been waiting for.

1183
01:41:12,670 --> 01:41:15,298
With the limited
equipment we have,

1184
01:41:15,372 --> 01:41:17,738
it will probably take three trips
to carry enough bombs...

1185
01:41:17,808 --> 01:41:20,402
to the target
to destroy it.

1186
01:41:20,477 --> 01:41:22,707
I needn't tell you you'll
have to help plan these strikes...

1187
01:41:22,780 --> 01:41:25,476
down to the last pint of gas,

1188
01:41:25,549 --> 01:41:27,517
the last pound of load,

1189
01:41:27,584 --> 01:41:29,950
the last second of time.

1190
01:41:31,355 --> 01:41:33,346
All right,
Colonel Davenport.

1191
01:41:44,735 --> 01:41:47,329
There it is,
what we're after...

1192
01:41:47,404 --> 01:41:49,565
ball bearings.

1193
01:41:49,640 --> 01:41:52,803
We've found that almost the entire
German production of ball bearings...

1194
01:41:52,876 --> 01:41:54,867
is concentrated here.

1195
01:41:54,945 --> 01:41:58,881
<i>Without ball bearings,
the entire German armament industry...</i>

1196
01:41:58,949 --> 01:42:00,883
<i>will slow to a halt.</i>

1197
01:42:03,620 --> 01:42:07,647
Wish I had something stronger
for you, Frank, but I haven't.

1198
01:42:09,760 --> 01:42:13,025
If we bring this one off,
things are likely to pick up fast.

1199
01:42:13,063 --> 01:42:15,327
I think we may get three or four
whole new groups thrown at us.

1200
01:42:15,366 --> 01:42:17,334
Growing up, huh?

1201
01:42:17,434 --> 01:42:20,267
How soon can you turn loose down there
and come back up here and help me?

1202
01:42:21,772 --> 01:42:25,264
- Well, that's, uh, kind of hard to say, sir.
- Why?

1203
01:42:25,342 --> 01:42:27,867
On paper,
the group looks fine now.

1204
01:42:27,945 --> 01:42:30,539
The leadership's
the problem, always has been.

1205
01:42:30,614 --> 01:42:34,072
Haven't you got the personnel?
Want me to transfer you somebody?

1206
01:42:34,151 --> 01:42:37,143
There's nothing wrong
with our personnel.

1207
01:42:37,221 --> 01:42:40,520
L- I lost
Bishop and Holloman.

1208
01:42:40,591 --> 01:42:44,755
Cobb's okay, so is Gately, but he's
just out of the hospital.

1209
01:42:44,795 --> 01:42:46,660
Takes time to know.

1210
01:42:48,365 --> 01:42:53,496
- How long before you figure you will know?
- I don't know that one, either.

1211
01:42:53,570 --> 01:42:59,270
How can you be sure? How do you know
what you're pushing Gately into?

1212
01:42:59,343 --> 01:43:03,404
How do you know we didn't
send Bishop just that once too often?

1213
01:43:03,480 --> 01:43:06,005
- I'm the one that's down there and...
- Frank!

1214
01:43:06,083 --> 01:43:08,347
You're swinging
after the bell.

1215
01:43:08,419 --> 01:43:10,478
Tell me something,
will you?

1216
01:43:10,554 --> 01:43:13,250
What was the name
of the man you relieved?

1217
01:43:13,323 --> 01:43:15,257
Who, Keith?

1218
01:43:15,325 --> 01:43:17,850
What was his trouble?
Do you remember?

1219
01:43:17,928 --> 01:43:20,260
You're not propping
them up too, are you?

1220
01:43:20,330 --> 01:43:22,696
Take a good look,
Frank.

1221
01:43:25,569 --> 01:43:29,232
Do you think that?

1222
01:43:29,273 --> 01:43:31,537
It would be
natural enough,

1223
01:43:32,910 --> 01:43:36,038
the things you go through
with a bunch of those boys,

1224
01:43:36,113 --> 01:43:39,014
working your way out
of the hole with them.

1225
01:43:39,082 --> 01:43:41,482
It's hard not to let them
get under your hide.

1226
01:43:41,552 --> 01:43:43,713
And the one thing
I've noticed on the record lately...

1227
01:43:43,787 --> 01:43:45,948
you've been flying
more missions rather than less.

1228
01:43:46,023 --> 01:43:49,584
Look, General, I'm the one
that's got to shove them up there.

1229
01:43:49,660 --> 01:43:53,460
And until I know they're ready,
I'm not about to turn 'em loose.

1230
01:43:53,530 --> 01:43:57,626
All right, Frank. Make it
as soon as you can, will you?

1231
01:43:57,701 --> 01:44:00,169
- You bet I will, sir.
- You tell me when?

1232
01:44:00,237 --> 01:44:02,797
- Yes, sir.
- Good luck, Frank.

1233
01:44:02,873 --> 01:44:04,841
Bring me back
a ball bearing.

1234
01:44:04,908 --> 01:44:08,105
And as a personal favor, try to keep
yourself in one piece, will you?

1235
01:44:08,178 --> 01:44:11,238
Well, that seems like
a reasonable request.

1236
01:44:11,315 --> 01:44:13,647
- Good night, sir.
- Good night.

1237
01:44:28,599 --> 01:44:31,261
- Keith.
- Yes, sir.

1238
01:44:31,335 --> 01:44:33,633
I want the files on the air execs
and the operations officers...

1239
01:44:33,704 --> 01:44:35,638
in all the groups
with recommendations on those...

1240
01:44:35,706 --> 01:44:38,470
who might be qualified
to take over a group in an emergency.

1241
01:44:38,542 --> 01:44:40,476
- Anything special?
- No. Nothing special...

1242
01:44:40,544 --> 01:44:42,478
- just checking, but keep it to yourself.
- Yes, sir.

1243
01:44:42,546 --> 01:44:44,707
Thanks.

1244
01:45:01,064 --> 01:45:04,465
- Tail wheel.
- Locked. Light off, sir.

1245
01:45:09,773 --> 01:45:11,968
Brakes.

1246
01:46:00,057 --> 01:46:02,218
Over Splasher
Beacon nine, navigator.

1247
01:46:02,292 --> 01:46:05,659
- Set course for combat wing assembly line.
- Roger.

1248
01:46:05,729 --> 01:46:08,493
Tail-gunner,
let me know...

1249
01:46:08,565 --> 01:46:11,295
- when the other groups tack on to me.
- Roger.

1250
01:46:39,162 --> 01:46:41,096
<i>Uh, Savage to crew.</i>

1251
01:46:41,164 --> 01:46:44,497
10,000 feet.
Go on oxygen.

1252
01:46:44,568 --> 01:46:49,164
From now on, we're registering
on the enemy radar screen.

1253
01:46:49,239 --> 01:46:53,539
<i>The Luftwaffe's already warming up
for us so watch your chatter.</i>

1254
01:46:53,610 --> 01:46:55,578
Let's not tell 'em
any more than we have to.

1255
01:47:03,920 --> 01:47:06,218
Navigator to Commander.

1256
01:47:06,289 --> 01:47:09,952
Departing English coast
on course, on time, sir.

1257
01:47:11,228 --> 01:47:15,494
Savage to gunners.
Okay to test your guns.

1258
01:47:28,945 --> 01:47:31,140
<i>Uh-huh.</i>

1259
01:47:31,214 --> 01:47:33,682
<i>Yeah. Again.</i>

1260
01:47:33,750 --> 01:47:36,685
- Pick them up yet?
- He's got the Air Ministry on the scrambler now.

1261
01:47:36,753 --> 01:47:38,687
Yeah,
say it again.

1262
01:47:38,755 --> 01:47:42,088
All right. Thanks very much.
I'll ring you again.

1263
01:47:43,794 --> 01:47:48,163
"Your aircraft are approaching
the enemy coast at 24,000 feet.

1264
01:47:48,231 --> 01:47:51,394
"D-D-I-4-B,
our intercept station, reports...

1265
01:47:51,468 --> 01:47:54,562
"the largest enemy fighter
reaction we've recorded.

1266
01:47:54,638 --> 01:47:58,438
"The enemy control is ordering down
units from as far north as Denmark...

1267
01:47:58,508 --> 01:48:01,477
and as far south
as Jafue Five. "

1268
01:48:01,578 --> 01:48:03,842
Mm, here's
the new wrinkle.

1269
01:48:03,914 --> 01:48:05,939
"The Hun ground controllers
are instructing their pilots...

1270
01:48:06,016 --> 01:48:08,075
to ram your aircraft
if necessary. "

1271
01:48:15,959 --> 01:48:20,794
Navigator, do you estimate
we've crossed the enemy coast?

1272
01:48:20,864 --> 01:48:23,264
<i>Yes, sir. We sure have.</i>

1273
01:48:27,504 --> 01:48:32,737
Change course...
15 degrees left.

1274
01:48:44,521 --> 01:48:47,456
Heads up, everybody.
The flak's quit.

1275
01:48:47,524 --> 01:48:49,617
Look out for fighters.

1276
01:48:52,662 --> 01:48:55,961
<i>Four F. W. S,
10 o'clock level, climbing.</i>

1277
01:48:56,032 --> 01:48:58,125
<i>Clock 'em.
Coming up on the other side.</i>

1278
01:48:58,201 --> 01:49:00,897
Don't yell on the interphone.
Be specific.

1279
01:49:00,971 --> 01:49:05,635
<i>- How many? Where?
- Eleven F. W. S, three o'clock.</i>

1280
01:49:05,709 --> 01:49:10,874
<i>On your toes, High Squadron. Low
Squadron, here they come 12 o'clock high!</i>

1281
01:49:10,947 --> 01:49:14,351
Watch it, Cobb.
They're heading for the High Squadron.

1282
01:50:14,211 --> 01:50:19,114
<i>Birdwell got a direct hit, sir.
He's going down.</i>

1283
01:50:19,182 --> 01:50:22,151
<i>Two squadrons of M.E. S
climbing at 12 o'clock, General.</i>

1284
01:50:22,219 --> 01:50:26,815
I see 'em. There's six more,
nine o'clock level, about a mile.

1285
01:50:26,890 --> 01:50:29,859
<i>Gately, move that Low Squadron
forward still more.</i>

1286
01:50:29,926 --> 01:50:33,225
Able to Baker
and Charlie Force Leaders.

1287
01:50:33,330 --> 01:50:36,356
They may fake a side attack to cover
the real attack out of the sun.

1288
01:50:36,433 --> 01:50:40,392
<i>Watch out for mass attacks,
eight to ten abreast.</i>

1289
01:50:58,121 --> 01:51:02,023
<i>More comin' around from one.
Watch 'em, Eddie. Watch 'em!</i>

1290
01:51:25,815 --> 01:51:27,908
<i>I got one!
He's bailing out.</i>

1291
01:51:28,018 --> 01:51:30,316
<i>Confirm that,
right-waist.</i>

1292
01:51:42,999 --> 01:51:45,900
<i>B- 17 droppin' out
of Low Squadron in trouble.</i>

1293
01:51:45,936 --> 01:51:47,961
<i>Keep an eye on him,
left-waist.</i>

1294
01:51:50,640 --> 01:51:53,040
<i>Two men bailing out.</i>

1295
01:51:55,345 --> 01:51:58,337
<i>Three more.
They're on fire.</i>

1296
01:52:01,017 --> 01:52:03,747
Save your ammunition.
We got a long way to go.

1297
01:52:03,820 --> 01:52:06,721
Shorten bursts.
Don't waste rounds.

1298
01:52:34,284 --> 01:52:37,811
<i>B- 17 out of control,
three o'clock.</i>

1299
01:53:07,884 --> 01:53:11,217
<i>There goes another Charlie.
He's spinning in, sir.</i>

1300
01:53:21,131 --> 01:53:24,328
Navigator, did we make up
that two and half minutes yet?

1301
01:53:24,401 --> 01:53:27,131
Yes, sir, we...
Watch that F.W., Vince!

1302
01:53:27,203 --> 01:53:31,435
...doesn't shift any more,
we'll be okay at control point seven.

1303
01:53:31,508 --> 01:53:34,238
Here come three more.
Close it up tight.

1304
01:53:43,520 --> 01:53:47,149
- Savage to crew. How bad are we
hit? - Right-waist to Commander.

1305
01:53:47,257 --> 01:53:49,987
We're hit bad, sir,
in radio compartment. On fire.

1306
01:53:50,060 --> 01:53:52,460
Well, get in there and
see what you can do about it.

1307
01:53:52,529 --> 01:53:57,057
Rest of crew, hold your stations.
Let's settle down.

1308
01:53:57,133 --> 01:54:00,864
Bombardier to Commander.
Flak at 12 o'clock level.

1309
01:54:02,172 --> 01:54:05,664
Well, we can forget
about fighters for a while.

1310
01:54:05,775 --> 01:54:08,801
<i>Able to Baker
and Charlie Force.</i>

1311
01:54:08,878 --> 01:54:12,974
Change of plans. Start your bomb run
from Halstuben. Acknowledge.

1312
01:54:13,049 --> 01:54:15,017
<i>Charlie Leader. Wilco.</i>

1313
01:54:15,085 --> 01:54:17,280
<i>Baker Leader
to Able Leader.</i>

1314
01:54:17,387 --> 01:54:21,323
<i>We'll be bombing in a bad crosswind.
Secondary target looks clear.</i>

1315
01:54:21,391 --> 01:54:24,588
Able to Baker. No dice.
We'll hit the primary.

1316
01:54:24,694 --> 01:54:27,390
Repeat. Your new I.P.
Is Halstuben.

1317
01:54:27,464 --> 01:54:29,694
<i>Roger.</i>

1318
01:54:42,212 --> 01:54:46,706
- Halstuben dead ahead, sir.
- Pilot to bombardier. Center the P.D.I.

1319
01:54:48,017 --> 01:54:51,077
- P.D.I. Centered, sir.
- Pilot to bombardier.

1320
01:54:51,187 --> 01:54:53,849
You're flying the airplane now.
It's all yours.

1321
01:54:55,225 --> 01:54:59,423
<i>Bomb bay doors open.</i>

1322
01:55:49,012 --> 01:55:53,574
We clobbered 'em good. Right on
the button! We're headin' for home.

1323
01:55:53,650 --> 01:55:56,448
Tail-gunner, how's that
formation back there?

1324
01:55:56,553 --> 01:56:00,683
Baker Force reassembling okay.
Charlie Force is strung out bad.

1325
01:56:00,757 --> 01:56:02,725
F.W. S attacking
the stragglers.

1326
01:56:02,759 --> 01:56:06,058
Able and Charlie, we'll give you
a slow turn to the left.

1327
01:56:06,162 --> 01:56:08,858
Cut across and
get back in formation.

1328
01:56:08,965 --> 01:56:12,401
Cobb to Commander. We'll be turning
over a heavy flak belt, sir.

1329
01:56:12,468 --> 01:56:16,404
Can't help it, Joe. Better than leaving
those stragglers to the fighters.

1330
01:56:16,472 --> 01:56:19,202
<i>That is roger.</i>

1331
01:56:20,476 --> 01:56:23,411
<i>Direct burst, sir!</i>

1332
01:56:23,479 --> 01:56:25,947
Bail out, Joe!
Bail out!

1333
01:56:26,049 --> 01:56:28,677
<i>Jump, you guys!
Jump!</i>

1334
01:57:19,736 --> 01:57:24,196
Well, Keith, welcome
to Operation Stovall.

1335
01:57:24,307 --> 01:57:27,367
Glad to see you, Frank.
How does it look for tomorrow?

1336
01:57:27,443 --> 01:57:29,411
Can't tell yet.
Lots of damage.

1337
01:57:29,445 --> 01:57:33,040
- I'm sorry about Joe.
- Well, that's the way it goes.

1338
01:57:33,149 --> 01:57:35,640
- Any more on the weather, Ben?
- Looks okay, sir.

1339
01:57:35,752 --> 01:57:39,654
Good. Looks like all we got
left to do is go get it done.

1340
01:57:39,722 --> 01:57:41,883
The old man was mighty pleased
with the results, Frank.

1341
01:57:41,958 --> 01:57:44,153
Well, he ought to be.
From the strike photos,

1342
01:57:44,227 --> 01:57:46,457
it looks as though tomorrow
might wash it up if we're any good.

1343
01:57:46,562 --> 01:57:48,655
Did you know he went
on the mission today?

1344
01:57:48,765 --> 01:57:51,165
- No!
- He slipped into Curt May's plane.

1345
01:57:51,234 --> 01:57:53,668
I don't think Curt knew
till he crossed the enemy coast.

1346
01:57:55,872 --> 01:57:58,363
So the old man's
stowing away these days, huh?

1347
01:57:58,474 --> 01:58:00,704
I wish I'd have known it.
I'd a crowded 'em...

1348
01:58:00,777 --> 01:58:02,972
a little closer to that flak at Frankfurt.

1349
01:58:03,046 --> 01:58:05,037
- How'd the other boys make out?
- A little rough.

1350
01:58:05,148 --> 01:58:07,116
But they'll put up the maximum
for tomorrow or close to it.

1351
01:58:07,183 --> 01:58:09,151
- Good.
- "The maximum. "

1352
01:58:09,185 --> 01:58:11,354
Maximum effort.

1353
01:58:11,487 --> 01:58:14,684
Are you drunk,
Colonel Stovall?

1354
01:58:15,792 --> 01:58:19,455
I am a little. I...

1355
01:58:19,529 --> 01:58:23,431
believe I warned the general
that it might happen again sometime.

1356
01:58:23,499 --> 01:58:25,626
Well,
what do you know.

1357
01:58:25,702 --> 01:58:28,398
Keep it going till tomorrow night,
and I'll join you.

1358
01:58:28,471 --> 01:58:30,632
I believe
I shall, sir.

1359
01:58:30,707 --> 01:58:33,574
Sometime I think Harvey drew
the worst end of the racket.

1360
01:58:33,643 --> 01:58:36,305
Just sit here.
Watch 'em come and go.

1361
01:58:36,379 --> 01:58:38,540
Fill out all those
stinkin' papers.

1362
01:58:38,614 --> 01:58:40,707
<i>That is not why
I am drunk tonight.</i>

1363
01:58:41,851 --> 01:58:45,378
I got drunk
because I am confused.

1364
01:58:45,455 --> 01:58:50,358
I was thinking, which is a thing
a man should not do,

1365
01:58:50,426 --> 01:58:53,088
and all at once
I couldn't remember...

1366
01:58:53,162 --> 01:58:55,153
what any of them
looked like.

1367
01:58:55,231 --> 01:58:58,325
I... I couldn't
see their faces.

1368
01:58:58,401 --> 01:59:03,464
Bishop, Cobb.
Wilson, Zimmy...

1369
01:59:03,539 --> 01:59:05,564
all of them.

1370
01:59:06,809 --> 01:59:11,769
All of you.
They all looked alike. Just...

1371
01:59:11,848 --> 01:59:14,783
one face and...

1372
01:59:14,817 --> 01:59:19,379
It was very young,
and it confused me.

1373
01:59:19,422 --> 01:59:23,358
I think
I shall stay drunk...

1374
01:59:23,426 --> 01:59:28,090
until I'm
not confused anymore.

1375
01:59:28,164 --> 01:59:31,759
Stay with it,
Harvey.

1376
01:59:31,834 --> 01:59:34,769
But if you guys want to carouse some more,
you're going to have to go someplace else.

1377
01:59:34,837 --> 01:59:36,771
- Good night, sir.
- Good night, Ben.

1378
01:59:36,839 --> 01:59:39,967
Good night, Keith.
Boy, am I gonna sleep tonight.

1379
01:59:40,042 --> 01:59:43,102
- Good night, sir.
- Good night, Colonel.

1380
01:59:56,959 --> 01:59:59,086
Guess it's
about that time.

1381
02:00:00,630 --> 02:00:02,757
Good luck, Frank.

1382
02:00:05,435 --> 02:00:07,630
<i>Good luck, Frank.</i>

1383
02:00:07,703 --> 02:00:10,194
Good luck, sir.

1384
02:01:16,138 --> 02:01:18,072
What's
the matter, sir?

1385
02:01:18,140 --> 02:01:20,267
I don't know.

1386
02:01:20,343 --> 02:01:23,540
- Are you sick, sir?
- Arm... something's wrong.

1387
02:01:23,613 --> 02:01:27,640
- It won't work.
- You want me to take it?

1388
02:01:27,717 --> 02:01:30,049
No. Tell, uh...

1389
02:01:30,119 --> 02:01:34,385
Tell...
Tell Gately to take it.

1390
02:01:34,457 --> 02:01:37,722
Yes, sir.
He'll take it.

1391
02:01:45,034 --> 02:01:49,994
Get hold of Doc Kaiser.
I'll take the lead ship.

1392
02:01:59,549 --> 02:02:03,041
- Where's my oxygen mask?
- Fra... Frank!

1393
02:02:03,119 --> 02:02:05,087
Frank.
Come on, Frank!

1394
02:02:05,154 --> 02:02:07,179
Come on.
Get in the Jeep.

1395
02:02:14,196 --> 02:02:16,892
Frank!
Frank, are you sick?

1396
02:02:26,776 --> 02:02:29,939
Stop it!
Stop it!

1397
02:02:30,012 --> 02:02:32,845
- Where's Keith?
- I'm right here, Frank! It's okay! It's all...

1398
02:02:34,483 --> 02:02:36,576
Call the tower! Where's...

1399
02:02:36,652 --> 02:02:38,620
Where's Keith?

1400
02:02:48,965 --> 02:02:52,526
Can't make it!

1401
02:02:52,602 --> 02:02:55,002
We can't go!

1402
02:02:55,071 --> 02:02:57,835
We can't send 'em
out there again!

1403
02:02:57,907 --> 02:03:01,934
Stop them!
Stop them!

1404
02:03:02,011 --> 02:03:05,276
Stop them.
We can't make it! Stop them!

1405
02:03:26,702 --> 02:03:29,967
Cigarette, Frank?

1406
02:03:30,039 --> 02:03:32,439
How about a smoke?

1407
02:03:43,319 --> 02:03:46,288
- What do you make of it?
- State of shock.

1408
02:03:46,355 --> 02:03:50,086
Complete collapse.
Everything let go at once.

1409
02:03:50,159 --> 02:03:53,720
Can't you give him a hypo, Doc? Something
to knock him out, put him to sleep?

1410
02:03:53,796 --> 02:03:56,924
No. In his present condition
it wouldn't be any good.

1411
02:03:56,999 --> 02:04:00,162
He's somewhere up there
with the mission.

1412
02:04:00,236 --> 02:04:03,763
When they get back
maybe he'll let go.

1413
02:04:03,839 --> 02:04:05,608
I hope.

1414
02:04:05,741 --> 02:04:09,734
It's screwy. I wouldn't ever have
figured it could happen to him.

1415
02:04:09,812 --> 02:04:12,747
I did. I watched him sweep his feelings
under the carpet long enough.

1416
02:04:12,782 --> 02:04:14,841
It had to spill out
someday.

1417
02:04:14,884 --> 02:04:17,375
But I never saw him more full of fight
than he was at briefing.

1418
02:04:17,486 --> 02:04:19,750
Did you ever see
a light bulb burn out,

1419
02:04:19,822 --> 02:04:23,019
how bright the filament is
just before it lets go?

1420
02:04:23,092 --> 02:04:25,822
I think they call it
"maximum effort. "

1421
02:04:54,657 --> 02:04:57,455
Colonel Davenport.

1422
02:04:57,526 --> 02:05:00,461
That's fine.
Thanks very much.

1423
02:05:00,529 --> 02:05:02,827
The strike report,
Frank.

1424
02:05:05,201 --> 02:05:07,795
They hit
the primary okay.

1425
02:05:08,738 --> 02:05:11,969
Gately reports
results good.

1426
02:05:12,041 --> 02:05:14,942
They clobbered it,
Frank!

1427
02:05:16,178 --> 02:05:19,875
Frank, try and listen to me.

1428
02:05:19,949 --> 02:05:23,578
I know what you're feeling.
I know just what you're feeling.

1429
02:05:23,652 --> 02:05:28,646
You think you blew it.
What do you expect of yourself, Frank?

1430
02:05:31,160 --> 02:05:33,185
Look.

1431
02:05:33,262 --> 02:05:36,891
Look, I saw something in those kid's
faces at briefing this morning.

1432
02:05:36,966 --> 02:05:39,332
Something
I never put there.

1433
02:05:39,401 --> 02:05:41,835
You were gonna make 'em
grow up, remember?

1434
02:05:41,904 --> 02:05:44,930
Well, they were this morning.

1435
02:05:45,007 --> 02:05:47,669
You think you aren't
up there with them?

1436
02:05:47,743 --> 02:05:51,338
Look, you're riding at every
crew station and in every cockpit.

1437
02:05:53,616 --> 02:05:56,380
That's right,
don't listen to me.

1438
02:05:56,452 --> 02:05:58,977
Just sit there
and do it the hard way.

1439
02:05:59,054 --> 02:06:01,147
Tell yourself a hundred times
a day that you blew it.

1440
02:06:01,223 --> 02:06:03,214
Make yourself believe it.
Take it to bed with you!

1441
02:06:03,292 --> 02:06:06,989
Eat your guts out till you're all hollow
inside! Don't let anybody help you!

1442
02:06:30,252 --> 02:06:32,277
They're back,
Frank.

1443
02:06:34,924 --> 02:06:37,688
Six. Seven.

1444
02:07:16,732 --> 02:07:20,463
Eight. Nine.

1445
02:07:20,536 --> 02:07:23,096
Ten.

1446
02:07:23,172 --> 02:07:25,265
Piccadilly Lily.

1447
02:07:25,341 --> 02:07:28,071
<i>Eleven.</i>

1448
02:07:28,143 --> 02:07:32,307
<i>Twelve. Thirteen.</i>

1449
02:07:33,549 --> 02:07:36,177
<i>Fourteen.</i>

1450
02:07:36,252 --> 02:07:38,516
<i>Fifteen.</i>

1451
02:07:38,587 --> 02:07:41,579
<i>Sixteen.</i>

1452
02:08:27,469 --> 02:08:30,063
Control tower.

1453
02:08:33,309 --> 02:08:36,210
- Tower.
- You got a count, Captain?

1454
02:08:36,278 --> 02:08:39,645
Twenty-one dispatched.
Nineteen returned, sir.

1455
02:08:39,715 --> 02:08:42,513
The boys really
did it today.

1456
02:08:47,189 --> 02:08:50,647
Nineteen.

1457
02:08:52,261 --> 02:08:54,889
They made it.

1458
02:08:54,964 --> 02:08:58,764
Nineteen of them.

1459
02:09:00,135 --> 02:09:02,899
- Who led?
- Ben Gately.

1460
02:09:05,541 --> 02:09:07,736
Is-Is he
back all right?

1461
02:09:07,810 --> 02:09:09,971
Yes, Frank,
he's back.

1462
02:09:26,195 --> 02:09:30,063
I'm kind of tired.

1463
02:09:30,132 --> 02:09:34,967
I think I'll... go to sleep
for a little while.

1464
02:11:08,330 --> 02:11:12,824
<i>- #Don't sit under the apple
tree with anyone else but me #</i>

1465
02:11:12,868 --> 02:11:16,895
<i>#Anyone else but me
Anyone else but me #</i>

1466
02:11:16,972 --> 02:11:19,998
<i>#No, no, no don't sit under
the apple tree #</i>

1467
02:11:20,075 --> 02:11:27,147
<i># With anyone else but me
Till I come marching home ##</i>

1468
02:11:33,922 --> 02:11:40,657
<i># We're poor little lambs
who have lost our way #</i>

1469
02:11:40,729 --> 02:11:46,861
<i>#Baa, baa, baa #</i>

1470
02:11:46,935 --> 02:11:53,636
<i># We're little black sheep who have gone astray ##</i>

1471
02:12:03,637 --> 02:12:06,437
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