1
00:01:57,415 --> 00:02:00,458
Enjoy the hat, Mr. Stovall.
A pleasant voyage home.

2
00:02:00,543 --> 00:02:03,128
I'd like to thank you
for something else.

3
00:02:03,212 --> 00:02:05,380
Back home I'd buy a hat
in five minutes.

4
00:02:05,464 --> 00:02:08,591
Thank you for an enjoyable hour
and 40 minutes.

5
00:02:08,676 --> 00:02:11,553
It was a pleasure. Come back soon.

6
00:02:51,387 --> 00:02:54,598
- Where'd you get this?
- In an auction at Archbury.

7
00:02:55,141 --> 00:02:56,850
I'll take it.

8
00:02:56,934 --> 00:02:59,478
It's been knocked around a bit, sir.

9
00:03:00,605 --> 00:03:04,691
- I have a fine Staffordshire...
- No, I'll take this one.

10
00:03:04,776 --> 00:03:08,945
- How much?
- Ten shillings. It's not much value...

11
00:03:09,030 --> 00:03:13,951
Value? I want you to pack
it carefully. Very carefully.

12
00:03:14,536 --> 00:03:16,287
As you say, sir.

13
00:09:16,660 --> 00:09:18,578
You mustn't go back.

14
00:09:18,662 --> 00:09:21,873
Easy with his right leg.
It's broken.

15
00:09:21,957 --> 00:09:23,416
Easy now.

16
00:09:23,500 --> 00:09:26,544
- Hold him.
- We've been sitting on him.

17
00:09:26,628 --> 00:09:29,547
I can't. I just can't.

18
00:09:31,508 --> 00:09:36,180
I wouldn't believe it if I wasn't
looking at it. You can see his brain.

19
00:09:39,851 --> 00:09:41,810
Step on it, Doc.

20
00:09:48,443 --> 00:09:50,611
What'll I do with an arm, sir?

21
00:09:50,695 --> 00:09:53,530
- Whose arm?
- Ed Campbell's, the gunner's.

22
00:09:53,615 --> 00:09:57,701
- What happened to the rest of him?
- In a French hospital, I hope.

23
00:09:58,661 --> 00:10:03,208
He couldn't have made it home,
so I bailed him out.

24
00:10:03,751 --> 00:10:07,003
I put the ring in his good hand.
The chute opened.

25
00:10:07,087 --> 00:10:09,881
That's all right.
I'll take care of it.

26
00:10:15,471 --> 00:10:18,431
- Sergeant, get me a blanket.
- Yes, sir.

27
00:10:42,874 --> 00:10:45,376
Come on, I'll give you boys a lift.

28
00:10:45,919 --> 00:10:48,003
- Hospital, Mac.
- Yes, sir.

29
00:10:57,264 --> 00:10:58,931
Mac's had it.

30
00:11:15,366 --> 00:11:18,243
Coordinates on a Spitfire
in the Channel?

31
00:11:18,327 --> 00:11:21,288
I passed them to Air-Sea Rescue, sir.

32
00:11:43,020 --> 00:11:45,730
That's it, gentlemen. Thanks a lot.

33
00:11:45,814 --> 00:11:47,315
Next crew.

34
00:11:50,986 --> 00:11:53,654
- Take this one.
- Next crew!

35
00:11:53,739 --> 00:11:55,323
Come on, Jesse.

36
00:12:02,540 --> 00:12:04,583
McKesson's crew.

37
00:12:04,667 --> 00:12:07,294
- McKesson coming?
- McKesson's dead.

38
00:12:09,339 --> 00:12:14,009
I didn't know. I'm sorry. We might
as well get this out of the way.

39
00:12:14,886 --> 00:12:16,511
Sit down.

40
00:12:18,848 --> 00:12:21,725
Where did you first encounter
enemy action?

41
00:12:22,644 --> 00:12:24,811
- Bishop!
- Leave him alone!

42
00:12:28,691 --> 00:12:30,360
Leave him alone.

43
00:12:31,695 --> 00:12:33,488
What is it, Billy?

44
00:12:33,572 --> 00:12:35,365
I don't know, sir.

45
00:12:37,159 --> 00:12:38,868
Not all of it.

46
00:12:40,704 --> 00:12:44,123
We got hit pretty bad
the first pass the FWs made.

47
00:12:45,709 --> 00:12:47,752
That was when Mac got it.

48
00:12:48,671 --> 00:12:51,297
It took the back
of his head right off.

49
00:12:52,257 --> 00:12:55,718
Only he didn't pass out.
It just made him a crazy man.

50
00:12:56,887 --> 00:13:01,308
He was shouting, trying to get
the controls from Jesse...

51
00:13:01,393 --> 00:13:04,061
when I got up there
two hours later.

52
00:13:05,021 --> 00:13:09,692
The kid was flying with one hand
and holding back Mac with the other...

53
00:13:11,444 --> 00:13:14,780
wiping blood off the windshield
so he could see.

54
00:13:16,074 --> 00:13:17,866
For two hours.

55
00:13:19,494 --> 00:13:21,995
He made a good bombing run too.

56
00:13:22,080 --> 00:13:26,583
If he was in trouble, why didn't
somebody get Mac out of there?

57
00:13:26,668 --> 00:13:30,463
- The intercom was shot.
- For two hours?

58
00:13:32,591 --> 00:13:35,468
Mac's foot was jammed
in the controls.

59
00:13:35,970 --> 00:13:39,055
We broke his leg
trying to get it out of there.

60
00:13:39,432 --> 00:13:42,100
It seemed to hurt Jesse worst of all.

61
00:13:42,643 --> 00:13:44,394
He started shaking.

62
00:13:45,521 --> 00:13:47,564
I sat on Mac, held him...

63
00:13:48,274 --> 00:13:50,567
while Jesse brought us in.

64
00:13:51,110 --> 00:13:55,613
Give me a copy of that. I'm making
a recommendation for a Medal of Honor.

65
00:13:56,866 --> 00:14:00,119
- Jesse will be okay. I'll see him.
- Thank you, sir.

66
00:14:02,622 --> 00:14:06,417
- That's enough for this crew.
- That's all, gentlemen.

67
00:14:06,501 --> 00:14:08,794
Next crew. Next crew.

68
00:14:16,094 --> 00:14:20,890
- Is he in there, Harvey?
- Hasn't been in since interrogation.

69
00:14:20,974 --> 00:14:24,685
- He looked like the devil.
- Who wouldn't, with today?

70
00:14:24,770 --> 00:14:28,815
That's for you, Ben.
They'll fly down three replacements.

71
00:14:29,484 --> 00:14:31,151
That's nice of them.

72
00:14:31,235 --> 00:14:35,572
Lose five, get three. Nice gain,
not counting battle damage.

73
00:14:35,656 --> 00:14:40,494
This is Germany calling.
Lord Haw Haw talking from Berlin.

74
00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:46,249
I want to bring a special greeting
from the pilots of the Luftwaffe...

75
00:14:46,334 --> 00:14:50,253
to the American pilots
in England, the 8th Air Force.

76
00:14:50,338 --> 00:14:51,505
That's all we need.

77
00:14:51,589 --> 00:14:57,303
Our submarines checked you
very carefully, four groups so far.

78
00:14:57,930 --> 00:15:01,098
Too bad about the crew
you lost on the Way.

79
00:15:01,183 --> 00:15:05,186
But know that a U-boat
picked up the crew...

80
00:15:05,270 --> 00:15:07,688
and they're quite safe here.

81
00:15:07,773 --> 00:15:12,568
We found them agreeably talkative.
But what we want to know:

82
00:15:12,653 --> 00:15:17,448
Whoever persuaded you to try
this idea of daylight bombing?

83
00:15:17,950 --> 00:15:20,868
It must have been the English.

84
00:15:20,953 --> 00:15:26,208
They know better than to try it.
Losses are a bit heavy, aren't they?

85
00:15:27,043 --> 00:15:30,629
Let's take the 918th Group
at Archbury.

86
00:15:30,713 --> 00:15:33,131
- That's us!
- The hard-luck group.

87
00:15:33,216 --> 00:15:36,051
You lost five bombers today,
didn't you?

88
00:15:36,636 --> 00:15:39,137
Five out of the one group.

89
00:15:39,222 --> 00:15:41,932
Let's see, 21 in a group.

90
00:15:42,767 --> 00:15:46,270
At that rate
it won't take very long, will it?

91
00:15:46,354 --> 00:15:49,940
Something to think about
before your mission tomorrow.

92
00:15:50,191 --> 00:15:54,988
Yes, Colonel Keith Davenport,
you'll have another one tomorrow.

93
00:15:55,072 --> 00:15:58,408
Pleasant dreams,
my misguided friends.

94
00:16:01,203 --> 00:16:06,416
Why do we listen? It's always the same
pitch, "We've already lost the war."

95
00:16:07,585 --> 00:16:10,169
On a day like this
I could believe him.

96
00:16:10,254 --> 00:16:12,589
What was today's count on crews?

97
00:16:13,757 --> 00:16:18,469
Five crews didn't make it back, three
killed, 11 wounded out of those who did.

98
00:16:19,889 --> 00:16:23,600
- A lot of letters to write.
- I'm glad I don't have that one.

99
00:16:24,769 --> 00:16:27,605
- Hear about Lord Haw Haw?
- Twice.

100
00:16:27,689 --> 00:16:31,025
News moves fast.
Don't let a Kraut throw you.

101
00:16:31,109 --> 00:16:35,029
He was right, sir,
we're alerted for tomorrow.

102
00:16:35,113 --> 00:16:38,115
- You're kidding, Ben?
- I wish, sir.

103
00:16:38,199 --> 00:16:42,912
Fine. Four days in a row.
We'd better get things together.

104
00:16:42,996 --> 00:16:46,123
Alert the crews.
I'll see you in Ops in an hour.

105
00:17:00,139 --> 00:17:03,642
- This will make you happy. Flak City.
- Saint-Nazaire.

106
00:17:04,810 --> 00:17:09,230
It's a feast or a famine.
Waiting on this weather...

107
00:17:09,315 --> 00:17:13,610
and then try to cram a month's
bombing into four days.

108
00:17:13,694 --> 00:17:16,655
Field order snafued.
It says 9000 feet.

109
00:17:16,739 --> 00:17:20,033
I'm sure they mean 19,000.
I'll check with Savage.

110
00:17:22,495 --> 00:17:24,538
Another maximum effort.

111
00:17:24,623 --> 00:17:27,500
And the weather?
Give us some fog.

112
00:17:27,584 --> 00:17:30,878
I wish I could, but the target
is C.A.V.U.

113
00:17:30,963 --> 00:17:34,090
About 3¤10 cloud cover
over the Channel.

114
00:17:34,174 --> 00:17:37,176
You're no help.
Tell me if there's any change.

115
00:17:39,179 --> 00:17:40,930
How many airplanes left?

116
00:17:41,014 --> 00:17:44,850
With the 3 new ones, and working
the crews all night, 18.

117
00:17:45,394 --> 00:17:48,604
- How many from the others?
- Twenty-one apiece.

118
00:17:48,689 --> 00:17:50,898
Better camp on Nero's tail.

119
00:17:51,316 --> 00:17:55,320
If he says 18, he's giving us
everything with wings still on it.

120
00:17:56,572 --> 00:18:00,617
- What did the others lose?
- Two in the 916th, zero in the others.

121
00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:02,452
Our stinking luck.

122
00:18:02,537 --> 00:18:06,540
Those flak gunners had the range
when we made our run.

123
00:18:06,624 --> 00:18:10,794
- What about crews, Doc?
- I could give you different answers.

124
00:18:11,379 --> 00:18:13,588
I'll get started on route plans.

125
00:18:13,673 --> 00:18:15,674
- Coffee?
- Not now, thanks.

126
00:18:17,593 --> 00:18:22,765
That's your diet. How long since
you've had your clothes off?

127
00:18:23,225 --> 00:18:25,226
What about crews?

128
00:18:25,310 --> 00:18:28,271
You're crew when it comes
to being certified.

129
00:18:29,398 --> 00:18:31,607
There's the crew availability.

130
00:18:33,902 --> 00:18:36,446
About the route and timing...

131
00:18:36,530 --> 00:18:41,659
Don't figure on the altitude
until it's checked with Pinetree.

132
00:18:41,744 --> 00:18:43,077
Yes, sir.

133
00:18:43,829 --> 00:18:46,414
Thanks for worrying, only don't.

134
00:18:46,498 --> 00:18:50,251
- What about the rest?
- That brings us to the two answers.

135
00:18:50,795 --> 00:18:55,591
Twenty-eight men want to be excused,
three times more than normal.

136
00:18:56,176 --> 00:19:00,554
They gave reasons, mostly colds.
And most haven't got colds.

137
00:19:00,638 --> 00:19:05,309
They haven't gone yellow.
They're getting their bellies full.

138
00:19:05,894 --> 00:19:08,645
Do I okay them and mark them duty?

139
00:19:08,730 --> 00:19:11,732
How much can a man take?
What's physical?

140
00:19:12,275 --> 00:19:15,861
The rules say a man goes
unless he'll endanger his crew.

141
00:19:16,446 --> 00:19:18,864
I don't know what that means.

142
00:19:18,948 --> 00:19:22,410
Can you tell me this?
Do I okay Bishop for tomorrow?

143
00:19:23,287 --> 00:19:26,039
He had a tough deal.
Jesse's a tough boy.

144
00:19:26,540 --> 00:19:30,335
How tough? What happened today
must have affected him inside.

145
00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:33,129
It had to cost him something.

146
00:19:33,672 --> 00:19:37,425
Somebody's gotta give me a policy,
some kind of yardstick.

147
00:19:38,385 --> 00:19:41,012
Tell me what a maximum effort means.

148
00:19:41,806 --> 00:19:45,100
Doc, I wish I knew.
I wish I could answer that one.

149
00:19:47,520 --> 00:19:49,270
Hello? Yes.

150
00:19:49,356 --> 00:19:51,774
Hello, Pinetree. All right.

151
00:19:53,568 --> 00:19:55,486
Frank, Keith Davenport.

152
00:19:55,946 --> 00:20:00,449
Yeah, I heard it. I didn't call up
to talk about Lord Haw Haw.

153
00:20:00,534 --> 00:20:03,953
What about that cock-eyed field order
that said 9000?

154
00:20:05,038 --> 00:20:06,914
What? You're kidding.

155
00:20:07,666 --> 00:20:11,168
But the strike photos
don't show what the flak is like.

156
00:20:11,711 --> 00:20:15,131
Are you gonna be there for a while?
I'll be right up.

157
00:20:15,882 --> 00:20:17,633
They meant 9000.

158
00:20:18,176 --> 00:20:21,096
When I get back
I'll give you an answer, Doc.

159
00:20:45,371 --> 00:20:47,873
No, no mistake. It's 9000.

160
00:20:49,585 --> 00:20:52,795
They've got to try.
We haven't hit those subpens.

161
00:20:56,383 --> 00:21:00,595
I know, then twist it.
Had the same request all day.

162
00:21:01,889 --> 00:21:05,141
The wailing wall
is just around the corner, Keith.

163
00:21:06,643 --> 00:21:09,353
Oh, I don't know. I guess this is it.

164
00:21:09,897 --> 00:21:11,314
Sit down.

165
00:21:11,398 --> 00:21:16,319
If you don't level about this stuff,
they'll drop their bombs here.

166
00:21:16,737 --> 00:21:17,738
Look, Frank...

167
00:21:17,780 --> 00:21:22,201
It was tough enough at 19,000.
It'll be suicide at nine.

168
00:21:22,702 --> 00:21:26,246
Whoever dreamed this up
ought to have his brain in a jar.

169
00:21:26,831 --> 00:21:31,168
- Anything else?
- You've been a group commander.

170
00:21:31,252 --> 00:21:35,172
You led the first 10 missions.
Tell them what it'll be like.

171
00:21:36,883 --> 00:21:39,092
I signed the field order.

172
00:21:39,177 --> 00:21:42,346
- Why? I wanna know.
- I'll spell it for you.

173
00:21:43,097 --> 00:21:46,600
We haven't penetrated
the concrete in those subpens.

174
00:21:46,685 --> 00:21:50,563
We can't get concentration
and accuracy from 19,000.

175
00:21:50,648 --> 00:21:53,983
We go in low,
and get it done in one trip...

176
00:21:54,068 --> 00:21:57,278
instead of fighting our way there
for nothing.

177
00:21:57,821 --> 00:21:59,280
Nine thousand feet.

178
00:21:59,365 --> 00:22:03,409
When the old man cuts a field order,
he's thought about it.

179
00:22:04,536 --> 00:22:07,789
There isn't time to take
every one of them apart.

180
00:22:08,791 --> 00:22:12,252
If I were you, when I got one,
I'd go ahead and fly it.

181
00:22:12,836 --> 00:22:17,091
I was gonna bring these to you.
Had to steal them from the RAF.

182
00:22:17,801 --> 00:22:20,344
Hope they're the kind you wanted.

183
00:22:20,428 --> 00:22:21,595
Yeah.

184
00:22:24,307 --> 00:22:26,183
Yeah. Thanks, Frank.

185
00:22:28,103 --> 00:22:31,146
I won't need them at 9000.
It'll be plenty hot.

186
00:22:33,900 --> 00:22:35,859
I'd better get back...

187
00:22:35,944 --> 00:22:39,989
Stay put. Thought I might
run down tomorrow to see you.

188
00:22:40,532 --> 00:22:43,575
- How many do you expect to put out?
- Eighteen.

189
00:22:44,744 --> 00:22:47,163
- Pretty bad luck today?
- Not good.

190
00:22:48,291 --> 00:22:51,918
One broke through the runway
at takeoff. Threw us late.

191
00:22:52,003 --> 00:22:54,671
He never made it up. Cost us plenty.

192
00:22:56,590 --> 00:22:59,926
I don't know how anybody
outguesses that one.

193
00:23:00,011 --> 00:23:01,177
No.

194
00:23:02,596 --> 00:23:06,975
I'd like to help locate the trouble.
What about your formation?

195
00:23:09,437 --> 00:23:13,148
I can tell you where the real trouble
is, and it isn't formation.

196
00:23:13,232 --> 00:23:16,235
- Shoot.
- It isn't down in the groups either.

197
00:23:16,820 --> 00:23:20,906
It's up here, where a bunch of boys
get to be nothing but numbers.

198
00:23:21,992 --> 00:23:25,286
Do they know what my boys
have been taking?

199
00:23:25,370 --> 00:23:30,041
They'll be up all night to get 18
in the air. How much can they take?

200
00:23:30,125 --> 00:23:33,711
They fall asleep at briefing.
They'll crack!

201
00:23:33,795 --> 00:23:38,424
- Take it easy, Keith.
- Bomber Command can take it easy!

202
00:23:38,508 --> 00:23:41,594
They'll die for you,
but they need a chance.

203
00:23:41,678 --> 00:23:44,806
A man's chances run out
in 15 missions.

204
00:23:44,891 --> 00:23:49,186
Somebody's gotta give them a limit.
What do you think they're made of?

205
00:23:50,229 --> 00:23:51,730
Look, Keith...

206
00:23:54,484 --> 00:23:57,944
- Yes, sir?
- Just got the reports. Come up, Frank.

207
00:23:58,529 --> 00:24:00,947
I'll be there in a minute, sir.

208
00:24:01,032 --> 00:24:02,991
Those things are coming.

209
00:24:03,076 --> 00:24:05,535
Replacements. Combat limits.

210
00:24:06,871 --> 00:24:09,623
But right now the deal is to hang on.

211
00:24:09,707 --> 00:24:12,834
You've got to find a way
to save yourself a bit.

212
00:24:13,252 --> 00:24:16,089
You can't carry all the load.
It's too big.

213
00:24:17,383 --> 00:24:18,841
Don't worry about me.

214
00:24:18,926 --> 00:24:22,428
Worry about the crews,
you and the old man.

215
00:24:24,848 --> 00:24:27,308
You'd better go on up and see him.

216
00:24:28,268 --> 00:24:31,479
- Give him my love.
- If I do, he'll send you his.

217
00:24:32,940 --> 00:24:34,649
He rates you high.

218
00:24:34,733 --> 00:24:37,610
Not according to Lord Haw Haw.
Good night.

219
00:25:03,555 --> 00:25:07,474
Never mind the reasons. You can't
make anything else out of it.

220
00:25:08,017 --> 00:25:12,730
Five missing, and they'll only put up
18 tomorrow. It gets worse.

221
00:25:12,815 --> 00:25:16,985
I've just been talking to Keith.
He's low enough about it.

222
00:25:17,403 --> 00:25:19,654
Did he tell you what happened?

223
00:25:20,239 --> 00:25:23,575
No, he had tomorrow ahead of him.

224
00:25:23,659 --> 00:25:25,618
What do you make of it?

225
00:25:27,163 --> 00:25:30,665
Hard luck. There's always
some outfit picks up a jinx.

226
00:25:31,417 --> 00:25:34,919
You don't believe that.
Fill yourself a drink.

227
00:25:35,921 --> 00:25:37,172
Thanks.

228
00:25:38,007 --> 00:25:40,508
Might scare off that bug of yours.

229
00:25:45,557 --> 00:25:49,018
I don't believe in hard luck.
There's always a reason.

230
00:25:53,190 --> 00:25:56,025
What have you got on your mind?
Spill it.

231
00:25:56,985 --> 00:25:58,569
I'd rather not.

232
00:25:59,988 --> 00:26:02,031
Let's have it, with the bark on.

233
00:26:05,202 --> 00:26:09,079
You won't like it. I don't.
It's the group commander.

234
00:26:15,171 --> 00:26:16,463
Keith?

235
00:26:16,547 --> 00:26:19,841
It's always the group commander.
It's his job, isn't it?

236
00:26:23,137 --> 00:26:25,597
That's funny. He's your friend.

237
00:26:26,224 --> 00:26:29,893
- I didn't ask you to ask me.
- I didn't mean it like that.

238
00:26:30,436 --> 00:26:31,770
It's okay.

239
00:26:32,855 --> 00:26:35,941
I don't believe it, though.
I don't think I do.

240
00:26:38,361 --> 00:26:42,240
On paper Keith looked like the best
group commander we've had.

241
00:26:42,324 --> 00:26:45,826
He's flown every mission.
His men are loyal to him.

242
00:26:46,620 --> 00:26:50,414
Courage, he works hard.
I don't know where to fault him.

243
00:26:50,499 --> 00:26:55,836
If he can't cut it, we're in trouble.
What happened to change the picture?

244
00:26:56,213 --> 00:26:57,463
Nothing.

245
00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:01,842
Added this to it, though:

246
00:27:02,928 --> 00:27:07,014
He's gonna bust wide open.
And he's gonna do it to himself too.

247
00:27:08,267 --> 00:27:11,436
Why? Because he's a first-rate guy.

248
00:27:12,105 --> 00:27:15,732
Because he's thinking about his boys
instead of missions.

249
00:27:16,776 --> 00:27:21,029
Over-identification with his men.
I think that's what they call it.

250
00:27:22,490 --> 00:27:24,616
You won't change it either.

251
00:27:27,120 --> 00:27:30,122
I can't buy it, Frank.
Not yet, anyway.

252
00:27:32,083 --> 00:27:35,752
- Is he still here?
- He had tomorrow to get ready for.

253
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:39,716
We'd better find out.
If it's true, we're in trouble.

254
00:27:40,634 --> 00:27:44,470
Why should the other groups
hold together if the 918th can't?

255
00:27:45,139 --> 00:27:48,182
Call my car, will you,
while I get my pants on?

256
00:27:48,976 --> 00:27:53,521
- You want me to go there with you?
- You bet I do. It's your idea.

257
00:27:58,068 --> 00:28:01,404
We were three minutes late
and got most of it here.

258
00:28:01,864 --> 00:28:03,823
Deadly three minutes.

259
00:28:03,907 --> 00:28:07,827
The idea was to get the groups
there simultaneously...

260
00:28:07,911 --> 00:28:10,831
so that enemy flak couldn't
concentrate on one group.

261
00:28:10,915 --> 00:28:13,208
We sure were sitting ducks.

262
00:28:13,293 --> 00:28:17,463
I figured they didn't want
to bring their loads back.

263
00:28:17,839 --> 00:28:20,007
No man makes a perfect plan.

264
00:28:20,508 --> 00:28:23,636
You couldn't foresee a plane
breaking through.

265
00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:27,097
You should've gone
to the secondary target.

266
00:28:27,182 --> 00:28:31,977
We could have caught up,
if it wasn't for stinking luck.

267
00:28:32,062 --> 00:28:34,146
Luck? What luck was that?

268
00:28:34,230 --> 00:28:36,732
- It was my fault.
- It wasn't.

269
00:28:36,816 --> 00:28:39,027
I'd like to hear his version.

270
00:28:39,862 --> 00:28:44,199
We had to alter the navigation in
flight to cross the enemy coast here.

271
00:28:45,034 --> 00:28:47,243
We picked up a wind change.

272
00:28:48,037 --> 00:28:50,789
And I missed a checkpoint here,
Saint-Lô.

273
00:28:51,374 --> 00:28:55,710
By the time I caught it,
it had cost us three minutes.

274
00:28:56,379 --> 00:28:57,712
We never made it up.

275
00:28:57,797 --> 00:29:03,051
If there's any fault, it's mine.
I ordered the change in flight plan.

276
00:29:03,135 --> 00:29:06,137
I think that covers it.
Thank you, lieutenant.

277
00:29:06,597 --> 00:29:08,391
Thank you, gentlemen.

278
00:29:12,229 --> 00:29:16,148
Zimmy. It's okay.
Don't worry about a thing.

279
00:29:24,950 --> 00:29:27,743
I know you're tired, but let's talk.

280
00:29:27,828 --> 00:29:29,161
Sit down.

281
00:29:31,248 --> 00:29:33,124
Let's talk about luck.

282
00:29:37,505 --> 00:29:42,551
A pretty critical three minutes,
Keith. Five crews, 50 men.

283
00:29:42,635 --> 00:29:45,220
- I know.
- Whose fault was it?

284
00:29:45,304 --> 00:29:46,763
I told you, mine.

285
00:29:46,848 --> 00:29:51,393
- Do you rely on your navigator?
- You have to rely on your navigator.

286
00:29:51,477 --> 00:29:54,396
- Then it was the lieutenant's fault.
- It could've happened to anyone.

287
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:58,275
I know. He feels as rotten about it
as any of us do.

288
00:29:59,235 --> 00:30:01,361
But what happens now, Keith?

289
00:30:02,113 --> 00:30:04,281
I don't understand you, sir.

290
00:30:05,826 --> 00:30:08,953
We're talking about luck.
I don't believe in it.

291
00:30:09,872 --> 00:30:12,999
I believe that a man
makes his own luck.

292
00:30:13,083 --> 00:30:16,377
Yours has been pretty bad.
It's getting worse.

293
00:30:16,462 --> 00:30:20,673
Maybe the navigator's in point.
He blew it. What'll you do about it?

294
00:30:21,967 --> 00:30:25,887
I don't believe in chopping off heads
after one mistake.

295
00:30:25,971 --> 00:30:28,848
I don't think that's any way
to run a group.

296
00:30:31,643 --> 00:30:33,978
I feel sorry for the boy, Keith.

297
00:30:34,856 --> 00:30:38,275
But what will your men think
when he navigates again?

298
00:30:39,319 --> 00:30:41,737
That he messed up this one.

299
00:30:41,821 --> 00:30:45,616
If they fall apart,
that won't be luck.

300
00:30:45,700 --> 00:30:48,410
They'd stake their lives on Zimmy.

301
00:30:48,495 --> 00:30:52,122
If it was anyone else.
He's got two strikes against him.

302
00:30:52,916 --> 00:30:55,542
That boy's got a persecution complex.

303
00:30:56,044 --> 00:31:00,339
He wants to make up for his parents
being in the German-American Bund.

304
00:31:01,216 --> 00:31:04,469
They screened Zimmy plenty
before he got overseas.

305
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:09,724
We're not short of good navigators.

306
00:31:09,809 --> 00:31:13,728
If you decide to relieve him,
I'll give you a good replacement.

307
00:31:17,107 --> 00:31:20,360
You might as well ask me
to shoot him in the back.

308
00:31:21,028 --> 00:31:24,280
I won't do it, sir.
I can't do it to him! I won't!

309
00:31:31,455 --> 00:31:33,457
I want you to get to bed.

310
00:31:33,542 --> 00:31:37,211
Have the surgeon give you a shot
so you'll sleep 24 hours.

311
00:31:38,547 --> 00:31:41,841
A man only has so much to give
and you've given it.

312
00:31:45,345 --> 00:31:49,640
You're relieved of command.
Report to me at Bomber Command.

313
00:31:49,724 --> 00:31:52,101
I'll send someone to take over.

314
00:31:52,185 --> 00:31:54,728
- Good night, Keith.
- Good night, sir.

315
00:32:05,283 --> 00:32:09,411
The 918th will stand down until
the new commanding officer arrives.

316
00:32:56,543 --> 00:32:58,878
- Want me to take it, sir?
- No.

317
00:33:03,968 --> 00:33:05,886
I wanna talk, Frank.

318
00:33:14,103 --> 00:33:16,563
There's a hole in the dike, Frank.

319
00:33:17,106 --> 00:33:18,774
I'm scared stiff.

320
00:33:20,902 --> 00:33:24,154
Maybe you know how deep
this goes, maybe you don't.

321
00:33:25,239 --> 00:33:27,491
I've got to spill it, anyhow.

322
00:33:28,534 --> 00:33:30,995
We're fighting all over the world.

323
00:33:31,455 --> 00:33:35,291
Every theater commander is screaming
for crews and equipment.

324
00:33:36,418 --> 00:33:40,505
50,000 airplanes. That's what
they say they're building.

325
00:33:42,341 --> 00:33:44,008
I wish we had 500.

326
00:33:46,303 --> 00:33:49,430
Our problem right now
narrows down to one group.

327
00:33:50,265 --> 00:33:54,018
If the 918th folds, it can spread
to the other three groups.

328
00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:56,688
It can fold the whole deal.

329
00:33:57,690 --> 00:34:02,111
There's only one hope of shortening
this war: daylight precision bombing.

330
00:34:03,530 --> 00:34:06,365
If we fold, daylight bombing
is done with.

331
00:34:07,158 --> 00:34:10,744
I don't know.
Maybe it means the whole show.

332
00:34:13,081 --> 00:34:16,375
We could lose if we don't
knock out German industry.

333
00:34:19,212 --> 00:34:21,380
You can smell what's coming.

334
00:34:22,048 --> 00:34:25,050
No man should have to do this job...

335
00:34:25,135 --> 00:34:28,303
who's had more than
his share of combat.

336
00:34:28,388 --> 00:34:30,348
I'm asking you to take
nice kids and fly...

337
00:34:30,433 --> 00:34:34,394
until they can't take anymore.
Then fly some more.

338
00:34:35,396 --> 00:34:39,399
We've got to find out
how much a man can take...

339
00:34:39,483 --> 00:34:41,192
and get it all.

340
00:34:43,237 --> 00:34:47,365
I don't know if any man can do it.
That's what cracked Keith.

341
00:34:51,746 --> 00:34:54,414
What time can you get there tomorrow?

342
00:34:56,083 --> 00:34:57,625
Early, I guess.

343
00:34:58,837 --> 00:35:00,254
No squawks?

344
00:35:01,423 --> 00:35:04,175
It's hard to have one,
the way you put it.

345
00:35:04,259 --> 00:35:05,801
Thanks, Frank.

346
00:35:41,631 --> 00:35:43,882
- Smoke, Ernie?
- Thank you, sir.

347
00:36:11,245 --> 00:36:13,037
All right, sergeant.

348
00:36:13,122 --> 00:36:14,455
Yes, sir.

349
00:36:36,104 --> 00:36:37,980
- You know me?
- No, sir.

350
00:36:38,064 --> 00:36:41,525
- Then why are you admitting me?
- It's a staff car, sir.

351
00:36:42,026 --> 00:36:44,611
Göring could have been in it.

352
00:36:44,696 --> 00:36:48,073
- My A.G.O. card.
- The general may proceed.

353
00:36:48,158 --> 00:36:51,118
This is a military post, not a zoo.

354
00:36:51,202 --> 00:36:54,580
From now on you'll check
everyone who enters.

355
00:36:54,664 --> 00:36:56,124
Take a good look at me.

356
00:36:58,711 --> 00:37:03,423
If you, or any man on this post,
passes me up without saluting...

357
00:37:04,592 --> 00:37:06,634
you'll wonder what fell on you.

358
00:37:07,428 --> 00:37:10,346
- You might pass that word around.
- Yes, sir.

359
00:37:43,590 --> 00:37:47,259
- Take my bags to my quarters.
- Yes, sir. Good luck, sir.

360
00:37:48,178 --> 00:37:49,595
Thanks, Ernie.

361
00:38:04,278 --> 00:38:05,612
How do I address you?

362
00:38:10,701 --> 00:38:13,161
I don't quite understand, general.

363
00:38:13,246 --> 00:38:17,958
- What's your rank? How can I tell?
- Sergeant Mclllhenny, sir.

364
00:38:18,292 --> 00:38:21,544
It's Private Mclllhenny now.
Where's the air exec?

365
00:38:24,424 --> 00:38:28,302
He's not here, sir. He left after
Lt. Zimmerman's funeral.

366
00:38:28,720 --> 00:38:31,639
- Zimmerman?
- Yes. Navigator, sir.

367
00:38:32,266 --> 00:38:34,976
- What happened to him?
- Suicide, sir.

368
00:38:36,144 --> 00:38:39,897
- Where's the ground exec?
- In the hospital, sir. Mumps.

369
00:38:41,066 --> 00:38:45,236
- The adjutant?
- Major Stovall's at the Officers Club.

370
00:38:46,321 --> 00:38:48,364
Get dressed and find him.

371
00:38:48,448 --> 00:38:50,950
- Ask him to report to me.
- Yes, sir.

372
00:39:33,078 --> 00:39:35,371
Major Stovall, group adjutant.

373
00:39:35,456 --> 00:39:39,125
I remember you.
Are you the only one around?

374
00:39:39,209 --> 00:39:40,835
Probably, sir.

375
00:39:40,919 --> 00:39:44,172
I presume you've come
to take over the group?

376
00:39:44,256 --> 00:39:45,882
That's right.

377
00:39:47,718 --> 00:39:49,719
You been drinking, major?

378
00:39:49,803 --> 00:39:53,557
Yes. It's the first time
I've been drunk in 20 years.

379
00:39:54,100 --> 00:39:56,352
But it may not be the last.

380
00:39:56,436 --> 00:39:59,396
- Where's the air exec?
- I don't know, sir.

381
00:39:59,481 --> 00:40:03,567
It's only an opinion,
but it's possible he's drunk too.

382
00:40:03,651 --> 00:40:06,904
- Is he off the station?
- Yes, sir.

383
00:40:06,988 --> 00:40:09,656
- Where?
- I don't know that, sir.

384
00:40:09,741 --> 00:40:12,701
Send the MPs to find him.
Bring him to me under arrest.

385
00:40:14,579 --> 00:40:17,081
Under actual arrest, general?

386
00:40:17,749 --> 00:40:21,252
Exactly. Two: Cancel
all leaves and passes.

387
00:40:21,337 --> 00:40:25,006
Make sure all squadron commanders
are here by tonight.

388
00:40:25,091 --> 00:40:28,551
Three: Bring me the personnel files,
the 66-1 s...

389
00:40:28,636 --> 00:40:32,597
on Gately and the key staff,
including yours.

390
00:40:33,099 --> 00:40:34,349
Yes, sir.

391
00:40:34,725 --> 00:40:39,396
Four: Set a meeting for combat crew
in the briefing room tomorrow at 0800.

392
00:40:40,314 --> 00:40:42,982
- Is that all, sir?
- That's all.

393
00:40:43,776 --> 00:40:45,151
Yes, sir.

394
00:41:06,383 --> 00:41:09,218
- Colonel Gately is here, sir.
- Send him in.

395
00:41:29,490 --> 00:41:31,158
That's all, men.

396
00:41:43,004 --> 00:41:45,922
- May I ask why I'm under arrest?
- No.

397
00:41:53,515 --> 00:41:55,308
Stand at attention.

398
00:42:06,778 --> 00:42:10,364
You're the son of Lt. General
Tom Gately, aren't you?

399
00:42:10,449 --> 00:42:13,159
That's my standard identification, sir.

400
00:42:14,745 --> 00:42:17,747
- How is he, as an officer?
- None better, sir.

401
00:42:18,207 --> 00:42:19,708
That's right.

402
00:42:21,044 --> 00:42:24,671
You're the son of a fine officer,
the grandson of another.

403
00:42:25,965 --> 00:42:29,593
You're a graduate of West Point
with nine years' service.

404
00:42:31,554 --> 00:42:35,849
Your Form 5 shows that you've more
four-engine time than any man here.

405
00:42:38,269 --> 00:42:42,814
You could've done more than anyone
to take the load off Colonel Davenport.

406
00:42:47,070 --> 00:42:51,366
Records show you've flown only
three missions since you've been here.

407
00:42:53,077 --> 00:42:56,162
- Is that right?
- And I turned back twice.

408
00:43:04,630 --> 00:43:08,341
I take it you don't care
about the part you had...

409
00:43:08,425 --> 00:43:11,761
in breaking one of the best men
you'll ever know.

410
00:43:13,013 --> 00:43:16,057
As air exec you were in command here...

411
00:43:16,141 --> 00:43:18,769
the moment Colonel Davenport left.

412
00:43:19,521 --> 00:43:23,107
You met that responsibility
exactly as you met his need.

413
00:43:24,150 --> 00:43:25,859
You ran out on it.

414
00:43:26,695 --> 00:43:29,113
You left the station to get drunk.

415
00:43:31,283 --> 00:43:32,783
Gately...

416
00:43:33,827 --> 00:43:36,870
as far as I'm concerned,
you're yellow.

417
00:43:36,955 --> 00:43:40,082
A traitor to yourself, to this group...

418
00:43:40,166 --> 00:43:42,334
to the uniform you wear.

419
00:43:43,962 --> 00:43:47,382
It would be the easiest course
to transfer you out...

420
00:43:48,634 --> 00:43:51,928
to saddle some unsuspecting guy
with a deadbeat.

421
00:43:52,013 --> 00:43:56,308
Maybe you think that's what you're
gonna get out of this, a free ride.

422
00:43:57,893 --> 00:44:02,564
But I'm not gonna pass the buck.
I'm gonna keep you right here.

423
00:44:04,025 --> 00:44:05,734
I hate a man like you so much...

424
00:44:05,818 --> 00:44:08,987
that I'm gonna trample
your head in the mud.

425
00:44:09,822 --> 00:44:12,240
You'll wish you'd never been born.

426
00:44:12,783 --> 00:44:15,827
- If that's all, sir.
- I'm just getting started.

427
00:44:16,580 --> 00:44:21,459
You're gonna get a bellyful of flying.
You'll make every mission.

428
00:44:22,294 --> 00:44:25,921
You're not air exec anymore.
You're an airplane commander.

429
00:44:26,757 --> 00:44:30,468
And I want you to paint this name
on the nose of your ship:

430
00:44:31,178 --> 00:44:32,678
"Leper Colony."

431
00:44:33,263 --> 00:44:36,265
You're gonna get every deadbeat...

432
00:44:36,975 --> 00:44:39,685
every man with a penchant
for head colds.

433
00:44:39,770 --> 00:44:45,107
If there's a bombardier who can't hit
his plate with his fork...

434
00:44:45,192 --> 00:44:48,945
you get him because you rate him.
Is that clear?

435
00:44:49,030 --> 00:44:52,574
General Savage,
I can file charges against you...

436
00:44:52,659 --> 00:44:55,243
for exceeding your authority...

437
00:44:55,328 --> 00:44:58,622
Get me Pinetree.
I want General Pritchard.

438
00:44:58,706 --> 00:45:01,375
- Line's busy. Will you wait?
- I'll wait.

439
00:45:02,085 --> 00:45:06,963
Rights, Gately. You've got a right
to explain to General Pritchard...

440
00:45:07,048 --> 00:45:11,551
cowardice, desertion of your post,
a yellow streak a mile wide.

441
00:45:12,387 --> 00:45:16,099
He can explain it to your father,
so they'll both be proud.

442
00:45:17,059 --> 00:45:19,268
You could tell him right now.

443
00:45:20,062 --> 00:45:21,854
I have your line, sir.

444
00:45:21,939 --> 00:45:24,691
General Savage,
I withdraw my statement.

445
00:45:28,737 --> 00:45:31,239
Hello? I have your line, sir.

446
00:45:31,323 --> 00:45:32,782
Never mind.

447
00:45:42,334 --> 00:45:43,919
That's all, then.

448
00:46:20,291 --> 00:46:22,625
Cut an order relieving Gately
as air exec.

449
00:46:22,710 --> 00:46:24,669
Anybody else, sir?

450
00:46:26,630 --> 00:46:28,631
I'll let you know, major.

451
00:46:29,300 --> 00:46:33,636
One file, Cobb, Squadron Commander,
shows a good record in the air.

452
00:46:34,513 --> 00:46:36,890
What are his qualifications?

453
00:46:36,974 --> 00:46:41,269
I'm sure you'll be pleased with any
selection you make from the group.

454
00:46:42,814 --> 00:46:46,275
Thanks for the help, major.
I'll be around the station.

455
00:46:56,036 --> 00:46:57,203
Sir?

456
00:46:58,288 --> 00:47:00,998
- I've been assigned as driver.
- Fine.

457
00:47:06,004 --> 00:47:09,507
- Aren't you the clerk...
- Yes, sir. Private Mclllhenny.

458
00:47:10,592 --> 00:47:13,553
General officers rate sergeants
as drivers.

459
00:47:13,638 --> 00:47:16,556
- Put those stripes back on.
- Yes, sir.

460
00:47:29,987 --> 00:47:31,613
- Beer.
- Yes, sir.

461
00:47:53,095 --> 00:47:55,179
Remove your cap in the club.

462
00:47:56,890 --> 00:47:59,767
- That's regulations, huh?
- It is.

463
00:48:11,239 --> 00:48:13,240
Have another, Major Cobb.

464
00:48:14,242 --> 00:48:16,869
- Scotch.
- I'll get it.

465
00:48:17,745 --> 00:48:20,330
No regulation against buying my own.

466
00:48:21,249 --> 00:48:22,416
That's right.

467
00:48:32,927 --> 00:48:34,136
Corporal.

468
00:48:34,220 --> 00:48:37,764
This bar is closed for tonight,
and until further notice.

469
00:49:01,040 --> 00:49:04,334
I'll keep a light in the doghouse
window for you.

470
00:49:34,824 --> 00:49:36,075
Come in.

471
00:49:38,161 --> 00:49:39,788
Major Stovall?

472
00:49:40,539 --> 00:49:43,667
Cut an order, assign
Major Cobb as air exec.

473
00:49:46,253 --> 00:49:48,463
- Good night.
- Good night, sir.

474
00:50:51,195 --> 00:50:52,529
Attention!

475
00:51:07,588 --> 00:51:08,838
At rest.

476
00:51:16,930 --> 00:51:21,517
There'll be a briefing for a practice
mission at 1100 this morning.

477
00:51:21,602 --> 00:51:23,603
That's right, practice.

478
00:51:24,897 --> 00:51:29,025
I've been sent here to take over
what's known as a hard-luck group.

479
00:51:29,860 --> 00:51:34,238
I don't believe in hard luck,
so we'll find out what the trouble is.

480
00:51:34,323 --> 00:51:38,660
Maybe part of it's your flying,
so we're going back to fundamentals.

481
00:51:40,747 --> 00:51:44,416
I can tell you why I think
you've been having hard luck.

482
00:51:45,794 --> 00:51:49,838
I saw it in your faces last night.
I can see it there now.

483
00:51:51,883 --> 00:51:56,512
You've looked at a lot of air lately.
You think you ought to have a rest.

484
00:51:57,639 --> 00:52:00,265
In short, you're sorry for yourselves.

485
00:52:00,975 --> 00:52:05,522
I have no patience with this stuff.
We're in a war. A shooting war.

486
00:52:06,273 --> 00:52:07,982
We've got to fight.

487
00:52:08,442 --> 00:52:10,568
And some of us have got to die.

488
00:52:10,653 --> 00:52:14,739
I'm not trying to tell you
not to be afraid. Fear is normal.

489
00:52:15,658 --> 00:52:18,993
But stop worrying about it,
and about yourselves.

490
00:52:19,578 --> 00:52:24,666
Stop making plans, forget about
going home. Consider yourselves dead.

491
00:52:25,501 --> 00:52:28,628
Once you accept that idea,
it won't be so tough.

492
00:52:29,630 --> 00:52:32,257
Now, if any man here can't buy that...

493
00:52:33,050 --> 00:52:37,972
if he rates himself as special
with a special hide to be saved...

494
00:52:39,349 --> 00:52:42,601
he'd better make up his mind
about it now.

495
00:52:43,436 --> 00:52:46,105
Because I don't want him
in this group.

496
00:52:48,024 --> 00:52:51,777
I'll be in my office in five minutes.
You can see me there.

497
00:52:58,368 --> 00:53:01,412
- I'll take Colonel Davenport any day.
- Me too.

498
00:53:13,134 --> 00:53:16,845
I'd better get to the office.
The traffic's gonna be heavy.

499
00:53:30,735 --> 00:53:34,071
The air exec and the flight
surgeon are here.

500
00:53:34,156 --> 00:53:35,531
Show them in.

501
00:53:35,616 --> 00:53:40,578
They beat you. I thought you'd
be the first to ask for transfer.

502
00:53:40,662 --> 00:53:43,289
- No, sir.
- It wouldn't do you any good.

503
00:53:43,749 --> 00:53:47,793
It doesn't go for staff.
You're stuck with me. Tell them.

504
00:53:47,878 --> 00:53:51,881
They thought you'd want to see them
about the practice mission.

505
00:53:52,674 --> 00:53:57,428
For the general's information,
you'll find Major Kaiser a top man.

506
00:53:57,512 --> 00:53:59,764
Thorough, knows his job.

507
00:53:59,848 --> 00:54:03,810
Cobb's an excellent man too.
It's just he's a little too frank.

508
00:54:05,104 --> 00:54:07,231
- Thanks, major.
- Yes, sir.

509
00:54:16,199 --> 00:54:18,909
- This is Major Kaiser.
- Glad to see you.

510
00:54:18,993 --> 00:54:22,287
- I think you met Major Cobb.
- Indeed, I have.

511
00:54:23,289 --> 00:54:28,168
I don't know if you still want
me here after last night. I was stiff.

512
00:54:28,670 --> 00:54:31,129
Well, you laid it on the line.

513
00:54:31,214 --> 00:54:34,384
You got the job after
I saw you, not before.

514
00:54:35,177 --> 00:54:38,012
You heard the briefing.
Still want it?

515
00:54:38,639 --> 00:54:41,724
- I think I can cut it, sir.
- See you at takeoff.

516
00:54:45,771 --> 00:54:48,147
What about crew availability?

517
00:54:48,232 --> 00:54:50,900
We have a critical morale problem.

518
00:54:50,985 --> 00:54:55,029
You gave them the shock treatment
this morning, a bucket of cold water.

519
00:54:55,114 --> 00:54:59,784
That's how I should approach the problem
as to how much stress they can take?

520
00:55:00,661 --> 00:55:04,498
Any man physically capable
of handling his airplane goes.

521
00:55:06,876 --> 00:55:11,255
But some things can't be accomplished
just by issuing an order.

522
00:55:12,132 --> 00:55:15,175
- You've seen the sick reports?
- Yes.

523
00:55:15,260 --> 00:55:20,514
They indicate something else to me.
Besides the stress of flying...

524
00:55:20,598 --> 00:55:24,852
these men have had the breaking up
of a strong personal attachment.

525
00:55:25,854 --> 00:55:30,441
They were devoted to Davenport.
He was the main thing they held on to.

526
00:55:31,319 --> 00:55:33,862
- Can you suggest a treatment?
- Yes.

527
00:55:34,613 --> 00:55:38,033
Ease up. Give them a chance
to get used to you.

528
00:55:41,037 --> 00:55:42,370
No, major.

529
00:55:44,874 --> 00:55:48,001
For two reasons.
First, there isn't time.

530
00:55:48,085 --> 00:55:51,796
Second, I can't enter
a popularity contest with Davenport.

531
00:55:52,423 --> 00:55:54,215
I'd lose that one.

532
00:55:54,300 --> 00:55:57,010
Also, I think they're better than that.

533
00:55:57,762 --> 00:55:59,889
All right, sir. That's it.

534
00:56:01,433 --> 00:56:03,225
Lt. Bishop to see you, sir.

535
00:56:03,310 --> 00:56:06,145
- Bishop? Who's he?
- A pilot, sir.

536
00:56:06,229 --> 00:56:10,733
A recommendation for the
Medal of Honor was sent to you.

537
00:56:10,817 --> 00:56:13,361
- I'll see him in a minute.
- Yes, sir.

538
00:56:14,571 --> 00:56:17,198
I think I know how deep
the problem is.

539
00:56:17,282 --> 00:56:20,242
The one thing that will
solve it is pride.

540
00:56:20,786 --> 00:56:22,745
Pride in this group.

541
00:56:22,829 --> 00:56:27,500
A pride that makes it the last thing a
man wants is to be left on the ground.

542
00:56:28,668 --> 00:56:30,921
And that's my job, not yours.

543
00:56:31,714 --> 00:56:34,424
Paint it with iodine
and mark them duty.

544
00:56:34,550 --> 00:56:35,926
Yes, sir.

545
00:56:42,600 --> 00:56:44,976
- Yes, sir?
- Send Bishop in.

546
00:56:53,403 --> 00:56:56,196
I'd better practice
saluting you first.

547
00:56:56,948 --> 00:56:59,659
I've added my name to that
recommendation.

548
00:56:59,743 --> 00:57:02,161
- Thank you, sir.
- Sit down, Bishop.

549
00:57:03,455 --> 00:57:07,041
Thank you, sir.
But I should tell you why I'm here.

550
00:57:07,501 --> 00:57:08,918
Go ahead.

551
00:57:09,378 --> 00:57:12,547
The pilots asked me to
be their spokesman.

552
00:57:12,631 --> 00:57:14,715
They want to transfer out.

553
00:57:16,176 --> 00:57:18,803
- How many of them?
- All of them, sir.

554
00:57:29,649 --> 00:57:32,151
I can see why they sent you, Bishop.

555
00:57:33,570 --> 00:57:35,654
You make quite a spokesman.

556
00:57:38,992 --> 00:57:41,326
Have you thought this out?

557
00:57:41,411 --> 00:57:43,996
You're sure that's the way you feel?

558
00:57:45,832 --> 00:57:47,708
I think so, sir.

559
00:57:47,792 --> 00:57:51,128
Tell them to put their requests
through channels.

560
00:57:51,212 --> 00:57:53,213
Meanwhile they fly.

561
00:57:53,298 --> 00:57:55,424
- That's all, then?
- Yes, sir.

562
00:58:21,827 --> 00:58:25,538
I just made some coffee, general.
Shall I bring it in?

563
00:58:26,332 --> 00:58:29,418
Thanks, major.
I'll come out there and get it.

564
00:58:48,146 --> 00:58:49,897
What are you doing?

565
00:58:51,066 --> 00:58:54,902
Personal effects of boys who got it
to be sent to next of kin.

566
00:58:56,155 --> 00:58:59,074
I'm a little behind.
I always write a letter.

567
00:58:59,867 --> 00:59:02,911
It takes time to screen
the stuff pretty well.

568
00:59:03,329 --> 00:59:06,957
Might save somebody back home
getting hurt unnecessarily.

569
00:59:08,918 --> 00:59:10,752
That's a tough chore.

570
00:59:11,587 --> 00:59:13,213
I don't envy you.

571
00:59:14,006 --> 00:59:16,925
How did you happen
to get into paperwork?

572
00:59:17,009 --> 00:59:19,553
They didn't give me any choice.

573
00:59:19,637 --> 00:59:24,766
You see, I'm a retread.
I had my shot at combat the first war.

574
00:59:25,227 --> 00:59:27,228
I wanted to get into this one...

575
00:59:27,312 --> 00:59:30,982
but they figured I was too old
for anything but a desk.

576
00:59:31,775 --> 00:59:33,609
Maybe they were right.

577
00:59:40,534 --> 00:59:43,202
You liked Keith Davenport,
didn't you?

578
00:59:43,287 --> 00:59:45,955
- A lot, I mean.
- Yes, sir.

579
00:59:47,291 --> 00:59:50,585
I thought he was one of the finest men
I ever knew.

580
00:59:52,129 --> 00:59:54,881
The same way the boys felt, I'm sure.

581
00:59:56,759 --> 00:59:58,677
Loyalty's a fine thing.

582
01:00:05,310 --> 01:00:06,810
Well...

583
01:00:09,397 --> 01:00:11,607
Thanks for the coffee, major.

584
01:00:12,066 --> 01:00:13,900
General Savage?

585
01:00:15,653 --> 01:00:18,572
I'd like to tell you
something else I think.

586
01:00:22,160 --> 01:00:24,120
I'm a lawyer by trade.

587
01:00:24,913 --> 01:00:26,706
I think I'm a good one.

588
01:00:26,790 --> 01:00:31,252
When a good lawyer takes on a client,
he believes in the case.

589
01:00:31,337 --> 01:00:33,212
That's all that matters.

590
01:00:33,297 --> 01:00:36,841
When I came to England,
I took on my biggest client...

591
01:00:36,925 --> 01:00:41,137
the 918th Bomb Group.
I wanna see my client win its case.

592
01:00:42,348 --> 01:00:46,100
- Does that answer what you had in mind?
- On the button.

593
01:00:46,185 --> 01:00:48,811
What did you have in mind, exactly?

594
01:00:50,356 --> 01:00:53,525
I need time before those
transfers go through.

595
01:00:54,277 --> 01:00:57,696
- How much time?
- As much as we can get. Ten days.

596
01:00:58,782 --> 01:01:03,369
It'll take the squadron adjutants
two days...

597
01:01:03,453 --> 01:01:05,871
to draw up all those requests.

598
01:01:05,955 --> 01:01:07,665
And let's see...

599
01:01:08,708 --> 01:01:12,419
I believe in thorough work.
Everything in order.

600
01:01:12,504 --> 01:01:14,838
I've got a lot on my desk.

601
01:01:15,382 --> 01:01:19,385
- Three days before I get to them.
- That's five.

602
01:01:19,469 --> 01:01:22,722
Take a couple of days
to check them. That's seven.

603
01:01:25,017 --> 01:01:27,977
Squadron adjutants
are sloppy sometimes...

604
01:01:28,062 --> 01:01:32,148
and I don't want them criticized
for sloppy paperwork.

605
01:01:32,233 --> 01:01:34,109
- Do you?
- No.

606
01:01:34,193 --> 01:01:39,364
Every request may have to go back
to the adjutants to be done over.

607
01:01:39,448 --> 01:01:41,658
By the time I recheck them...

608
01:01:41,742 --> 01:01:45,245
it'll be 10 days before
they're ready for signature.

609
01:01:50,501 --> 01:01:52,628
What a way to run an outfit.

610
01:01:54,506 --> 01:01:58,300
- You red-tape adjutants are all alike.
- That's right, sir.

611
01:02:00,887 --> 01:02:04,014
But, Harvey,
there can be trouble in this.

612
01:02:04,808 --> 01:02:09,145
I don't think so, sir. I never heard
of a jury convicting the lawyer.

613
01:02:36,382 --> 01:02:38,175
Let me have your attention.

614
01:02:43,765 --> 01:02:48,769
In case you aren't clear what this is
about, I'm supposed to be a deadbeat.

615
01:02:49,604 --> 01:02:51,981
So are you. That's why
you were assigned to me.

616
01:02:52,065 --> 01:02:54,817
"The Leper Colony."
How do you like it?

617
01:02:56,153 --> 01:02:58,696
You'll like it less after a mistake.

618
01:02:59,198 --> 01:03:02,950
A blowtorch is turned our way.
Nobody's shoving me into it.

619
01:03:03,535 --> 01:03:05,119
Is that clear?

620
01:03:14,004 --> 01:03:18,090
Everything set? I'll ride
in the top turret where I can see.

621
01:03:18,175 --> 01:03:22,638
Radio, rig an extension so the general
can talk on the command set.

622
01:03:23,598 --> 01:03:25,390
All right, let's go.

623
01:03:41,533 --> 01:03:46,370
"Close it up. Close it up." Shove that
damn wingtip right in his lap.

624
01:03:46,913 --> 01:03:48,622
Sweet Savannah!

625
01:03:48,706 --> 01:03:52,794
That wingtip's tickled me
in the ribs for three days.

626
01:03:52,878 --> 01:03:55,380
- I'm tired of it.
- Tell them.

627
01:03:55,464 --> 01:04:00,552
Another thing, for folks that talk
about other people's ability...

628
01:04:00,636 --> 01:04:04,472
that general seems willing
not to do any himself.

629
01:04:04,557 --> 01:04:08,268
We got us a talking general.
"Get in there, now!"

630
01:04:23,994 --> 01:04:27,204
We're alerted, sir.
Field order's coming in now.

631
01:04:28,874 --> 01:04:32,001
Tell Cobb to wheel and deal.
I'll be right over.

632
01:04:36,423 --> 01:04:41,802
Operator, keep this line clear.
Get me the bomb dump. Hurry.

633
01:05:02,617 --> 01:05:06,828
Two missions, only one aircraft lost.
Very little battle damage.

634
01:05:07,580 --> 01:05:11,124
That's because most of the time
we flew tight formation.

635
01:05:11,626 --> 01:05:15,378
The enemy took a look
and didn't want a part of the 918th.

636
01:05:21,553 --> 01:05:24,055
The bad side, the bombing.

637
01:05:25,307 --> 01:05:28,142
Fair, particularly the low squadron.

638
01:05:28,226 --> 01:05:32,271
We drop practice bombs every day
we haven't got a mission. Cobb.

639
01:05:33,106 --> 01:05:34,815
That's your baby.

640
01:05:35,400 --> 01:05:37,485
Anybody got any comment?

641
01:05:39,905 --> 01:05:43,532
- I've got some more. Henley?
- Here, sir.

642
01:05:43,617 --> 01:05:47,871
You've been late with your bombs
the last two missions. Why?

643
01:05:48,957 --> 01:05:50,499
No excuse, sir.

644
01:05:51,501 --> 01:05:54,127
I'll say this for you, you're honest.

645
01:05:54,504 --> 01:05:58,966
Nine men risk their lives to ride
with you to drop on target.

646
01:05:59,050 --> 01:06:01,718
Gately?
Here's a new bombardier for you.

647
01:06:04,389 --> 01:06:06,765
- Pettinghill?
- Yes, sir.

648
01:06:07,266 --> 01:06:11,019
We're lucky to have only one loss.
Why did you break formation?

649
01:06:12,647 --> 01:06:14,564
Ackerman was in trouble.

650
01:06:14,649 --> 01:06:18,444
Two engines on fire,
and we were getting enemy fighters.

651
01:06:19,697 --> 01:06:24,367
I figured I'd stay back and try
to cover him. But he couldn't make it.

652
01:06:32,918 --> 01:06:36,546
- Ackerman a friend of yours?
- My roommate, sir.

653
01:06:39,550 --> 01:06:43,261
For the sake of your roommate
you violated group integrity.

654
01:06:44,221 --> 01:06:50,728
Every gun is able to give the group
maximum defensive firepower.

655
01:06:51,730 --> 01:06:57,109
When you go out of formation,
you reduce the group's power by 10.

656
01:06:58,194 --> 01:07:00,988
A crippled airplane
is expendable.

657
01:07:01,072 --> 01:07:05,492
What is never expendable
is your obligation to this group.

658
01:07:05,577 --> 01:07:10,581
This group. That has to be your
loyalty, your only reason for being.

659
01:07:11,124 --> 01:07:12,958
- Stovall?
- Yes, sir.

660
01:07:13,043 --> 01:07:18,048
Work out a reassignment of quarters
so every man has a new roommate.

661
01:07:18,132 --> 01:07:19,424
Gately?

662
01:07:19,508 --> 01:07:23,511
Baxter's promoted out of the Leper
Colony. Pettinghill's your copilot.

663
01:07:28,100 --> 01:07:29,893
That's all I've got.

664
01:07:31,353 --> 01:07:35,482
- Anybody got anything else?
- What about our transfers?

665
01:07:46,745 --> 01:07:49,163
Okay, if that's all. Dismissed.

666
01:07:57,297 --> 01:07:58,631
Come in.

667
01:08:00,467 --> 01:08:03,385
Keith. Come on in. Glad to see you.

668
01:08:03,470 --> 01:08:06,555
How are you?
How's the adjutant business?

669
01:08:06,640 --> 01:08:09,975
I'm out of that line of work.
Ground exec now.

670
01:08:10,060 --> 01:08:13,897
- Glad to hear it. You had it coming.
- Thanks. Good to see you.

671
01:08:14,565 --> 01:08:20,070
- Good to see you, Harvey.
- Piece of cake? It's a bit old.

672
01:08:21,405 --> 01:08:23,156
Many happy returns.

673
01:08:25,409 --> 01:08:29,788
- I've seen this joint before.
- Looks better with you in it, Keith.

674
01:08:30,832 --> 01:08:34,042
Have a drink.
The boys will be glad to see you.

675
01:08:34,460 --> 01:08:36,044
I'm not so sure.

676
01:08:36,129 --> 01:08:40,549
I saw Sergeant Keller at the gate.
Had to show my A.G.O. card to get in.

677
01:08:41,551 --> 01:08:46,556
I just dropped down for a minute.
Something I want to talk to you about.

678
01:08:46,974 --> 01:08:51,227
I'll get on about my exec-ing.
I'll see you before you go.

679
01:08:51,311 --> 01:08:52,979
All right, Harvey.

680
01:08:55,899 --> 01:08:58,151
- Nice guy, Harvey.
- First-rate.

681
01:08:59,695 --> 01:09:01,028
Sit down.

682
01:09:01,780 --> 01:09:05,158
Tastes good.
Gets the chill out of your bones.

683
01:09:05,242 --> 01:09:08,202
- What a stinking climate.
- It's pretty bad.

684
01:09:09,705 --> 01:09:12,291
You didn't come to talk
about the weather.

685
01:09:12,375 --> 01:09:13,542
No.

686
01:09:14,460 --> 01:09:16,378
Or maybe I did at that.

687
01:09:20,008 --> 01:09:23,051
- There's a storm coming, Frank.
- The old man?

688
01:09:23,511 --> 01:09:26,138
I don't know if he knows about it.

689
01:09:26,222 --> 01:09:29,349
Those transfer requests.
None have come through.

690
01:09:30,185 --> 01:09:32,811
- You been sitting on them?
- I have.

691
01:09:32,896 --> 01:09:35,397
You've got a mutiny on your hands.

692
01:09:35,982 --> 01:09:40,402
The inspector general's got them.
If he investigates you, you're cooked.

693
01:09:42,698 --> 01:09:44,908
Can you slow him down?

694
01:09:44,992 --> 01:09:47,577
The old man can't interfere with IG.

695
01:09:48,120 --> 01:09:52,957
You want a few good missions.
Maybe they'll change their minds.

696
01:09:54,043 --> 01:09:57,170
- But it won't work that way.
- You got any ideas?

697
01:09:58,547 --> 01:10:03,676
To be frank, when you took command
here, I was hoping you'd fail.

698
01:10:04,345 --> 01:10:05,970
I'm that human.

699
01:10:06,764 --> 01:10:10,851
I blew it, but I want to tell you
how to run this group.

700
01:10:10,936 --> 01:10:14,438
- Shoot.
- All right. You're blowing it too.

701
01:10:15,106 --> 01:10:19,735
You can't drive those boys.
They can't be just a set of numbers.

702
01:10:20,278 --> 01:10:23,364
My blowing it doesn't mean
that idea was wrong.

703
01:10:23,782 --> 01:10:26,533
My failure was me.
I wasn't good enough.

704
01:10:27,077 --> 01:10:32,122
You've got to help them, Frank,
or they will walk out on you.

705
01:10:32,791 --> 01:10:35,626
That'll be a worse failure
than mine was.

706
01:10:36,878 --> 01:10:39,255
Give them something to lean on?

707
01:10:39,882 --> 01:10:42,050
Call it anything you like.

708
01:10:46,222 --> 01:10:47,764
Well, Keith...

709
01:10:55,356 --> 01:10:59,442
I don't believe it.
Here's where we part company.

710
01:11:00,486 --> 01:11:03,071
They're not boys.
They're men.

711
01:11:03,155 --> 01:11:05,782
Too bad to have to find out so young.

712
01:11:06,325 --> 01:11:09,203
How old is Bishop?
Twenty-one, maybe.

713
01:11:10,414 --> 01:11:13,541
It's tough to have to grow
all the way up at 21.

714
01:11:14,543 --> 01:11:18,337
But that's the only way
we're gonna get it done.

715
01:11:18,422 --> 01:11:21,048
And I think they can do it.

716
01:11:21,133 --> 01:11:24,385
Lean on somebody?
I think they're better than that.

717
01:11:25,429 --> 01:11:28,264
If that's not true,
then we're a dead duck.

718
01:11:28,849 --> 01:11:33,019
We'd better find out about it
right now. Once and for all.

719
01:11:34,479 --> 01:11:36,355
Well, that's that.

720
01:11:39,277 --> 01:11:42,696
You called a turn for me once,
and I couldn't see it.

721
01:11:44,073 --> 01:11:45,699
Now we're even.

722
01:11:47,785 --> 01:11:50,412
- Good night, Frank.
- Good night, Keith.

723
01:12:21,904 --> 01:12:23,237
Not again.

724
01:12:27,242 --> 01:12:31,954
No good, sir. The other groups
turned back. Nothing from the 918th.

725
01:12:32,039 --> 01:12:34,874
- Forget code. Try in the clear.
- Yes, sir.

726
01:12:35,751 --> 01:12:40,714
Pinetree to Flashlight Leader.
This is a recall. Do you read me?

727
01:12:41,132 --> 01:12:46,637
Pinetree to Flashlight Leader.
This is a recall. Do you read me?

728
01:12:49,682 --> 01:12:51,183
Nothing, sir.

729
01:12:51,684 --> 01:12:55,646
Weren't all commanders
told to go on channel B?

730
01:12:55,730 --> 01:12:58,107
It was in the field order, sir.

731
01:12:58,191 --> 01:13:01,819
Something's happened.
They've gone on to the target alone.

732
01:13:02,445 --> 01:13:05,447
I'm going down there.
I can't just stand here.

733
01:13:17,211 --> 01:13:19,295
That's 21 . They're all back.

734
01:13:19,380 --> 01:13:22,590
That's something.
I'm glad we still have miracles.

735
01:13:59,504 --> 01:14:05,177
We had a little weather, but the
target area cleared. We clobbered it.

736
01:14:05,261 --> 01:14:07,929
That's fine. What about the recall?

737
01:14:08,014 --> 01:14:13,185
Recall, sir? Never heard it.
Must have had radio malfunction.

738
01:14:13,269 --> 01:14:16,354
- I see. Let's get up to your office.
- Yes, sir.

739
01:14:17,356 --> 01:14:20,692
Bar's open, Harvey.
The boys really earned it today.

740
01:14:25,740 --> 01:14:30,035
You think I'm going to buy a Persian
rug about a radio malfunction!

741
01:14:32,705 --> 01:14:36,626
You'll tell me next you didn't see
the others turn back.

742
01:14:38,128 --> 01:14:41,297
You've no right to gamble
with my money.

743
01:14:41,381 --> 01:14:45,009
It isn't enough that you plant
an inspector on me.

744
01:14:45,093 --> 01:14:48,221
I've lived without them
for 20 years.

745
01:14:48,305 --> 01:14:51,891
Don't justify this
because you got away with it.

746
01:14:52,518 --> 01:14:55,144
I didn't hear a thing.

747
01:14:55,229 --> 01:14:58,397
- You're sticking to that fairy tale?
- Yes, sir.

748
01:14:59,233 --> 01:15:01,567
There's one more thing, sir.

749
01:15:02,319 --> 01:15:06,615
The 918th got through today and
bombed the target. Nobody else did.

750
01:15:07,242 --> 01:15:10,911
If I get another chance to give
this group...

751
01:15:10,995 --> 01:15:13,288
the pride it ought to have...

752
01:15:13,373 --> 01:15:16,208
I may have radio
malfunction again, sir.

753
01:15:16,918 --> 01:15:21,547
There's one more thing. I'm asking you
for a commendation for this group...

754
01:15:22,298 --> 01:15:27,761
for their courage in bombing
under very adverse conditions.

755
01:15:28,930 --> 01:15:31,682
You don't need to mention
the leadership.

756
01:15:33,686 --> 01:15:38,398
You'll get it. Maybe I'll send you one
for leadership. I don't know.

757
01:15:40,109 --> 01:15:43,111
Got somebody around here
can take dictation?

758
01:15:46,490 --> 01:15:49,409
Mclllhenny,
bring a book and pencil in here.

759
01:15:49,952 --> 01:15:51,703
Come on. Hurry up!

760
01:15:55,124 --> 01:15:57,667
Relax, Harvey. Mission accomplished.

761
01:16:16,479 --> 01:16:18,397
What do you make of it?

762
01:16:18,815 --> 01:16:21,734
I don't know. I can't make it out.

763
01:16:21,818 --> 01:16:26,864
They're pleased, but they're
not celebrating the way kids ought to.

764
01:16:27,532 --> 01:16:29,158
It's not normal.

765
01:16:32,079 --> 01:16:34,914
No cries for
"Savage for President," then?

766
01:16:36,917 --> 01:16:38,460
I don't know.

767
01:16:43,758 --> 01:16:47,761
Get hold of Bishop. Tell him
I'd like to see him in my quarters.

768
01:16:52,350 --> 01:16:54,893
- Smoke, Bishop?
- No, thank you, sir.

769
01:16:56,354 --> 01:17:00,315
I wanted to talk with you,
because I know you'll level with me.

770
01:17:00,900 --> 01:17:04,737
I wish you'd try to tell me
what you're feeling right now.

771
01:17:05,155 --> 01:17:07,281
- About, sir?
- The transfers.

772
01:17:07,366 --> 01:17:11,786
That we showed them how it's
done today. If you're proud of that.

773
01:17:13,038 --> 01:17:17,416
- I can't speak for the rest of them.
- Then don't. Just speak for you.

774
01:17:19,544 --> 01:17:23,506
Well, sir, that's hard.
I don't know how I feel.

775
01:17:25,133 --> 01:17:28,803
- That's kind of the trouble.
- What is?

776
01:17:31,349 --> 01:17:33,850
The whole thing, sir. Everything.

777
01:17:35,395 --> 01:17:38,647
I can't see what good
our bombing's doing.

778
01:17:38,731 --> 01:17:41,108
And all the boys getting killed.

779
01:17:41,776 --> 01:17:43,652
Just a handful of us.

780
01:17:44,237 --> 01:17:49,074
We're some kind of guinea pigs,
only we're not proving anything.

781
01:17:49,784 --> 01:17:51,910
You've got to have confidence
in something.

782
01:17:53,079 --> 01:17:58,667
When you find something you've got
confidence in, everything changes.

783
01:17:58,751 --> 01:18:01,087
It just doesn't make any sense.

784
01:18:02,589 --> 01:18:07,301
- I just want out.
- Would it be better in another group?

785
01:18:08,387 --> 01:18:12,140
It isn't a question of that.
I don't wanna fly anymore.

786
01:18:14,435 --> 01:18:18,354
Doesn't it mean anything
that we hit the target with no losses?

787
01:18:18,856 --> 01:18:20,148
Yes, sir.

788
01:18:20,691 --> 01:18:22,191
I suppose so.

789
01:18:23,110 --> 01:18:24,527
In a way.

790
01:18:25,195 --> 01:18:26,946
But I just want out.

791
01:18:31,995 --> 01:18:38,292
That's a pretty tough request
from a Medal of Honor man.

792
01:18:42,797 --> 01:18:46,133
Sure we're guinea pigs, Jesse.
But there's a reason.

793
01:18:47,385 --> 01:18:49,595
If we can hang on here now...

794
01:18:50,180 --> 01:18:53,766
one day soon
somebody's gonna look up...

795
01:18:55,643 --> 01:18:58,980
and see a solid overcast
of American bombers...

796
01:18:59,732 --> 01:19:03,818
on their way to Germany
to hit the Third Reich where it lives.

797
01:19:04,528 --> 01:19:07,447
Maybe we won't see it.
I can't promise that.

798
01:19:08,157 --> 01:19:13,161
But I can promise they'll be there,
if only we can make the grade now.

799
01:19:17,708 --> 01:19:19,959
I'd like to believe you, sir.

800
01:19:22,922 --> 01:19:25,590
I just don't have confidence anymore.

801
01:19:39,648 --> 01:19:40,981
Well...

802
01:19:43,860 --> 01:19:48,030
Looks like I'm chopping
and no chips are flying.

803
01:19:52,911 --> 01:19:55,538
It's easy to transfer out of a group.

804
01:19:56,164 --> 01:19:59,584
It's hard for a man to transfer
out of his obligation.

805
01:20:02,922 --> 01:20:06,049
But every man has to play it
the way he sees it.

806
01:20:09,971 --> 01:20:12,514
- Good night, Jesse.
- Good night, sir.

807
01:20:38,709 --> 01:20:40,126
How's it going?

808
01:20:40,210 --> 01:20:43,671
The inspector's got every pilot
in there. Cigarette.

809
01:20:44,172 --> 01:20:47,508
- You got a light too?
- I have only the habit.

810
01:20:56,728 --> 01:20:58,020
Well...

811
01:20:58,855 --> 01:21:01,106
they're still at it, sir.

812
01:21:01,190 --> 01:21:04,526
You'll make a silly-looking
second lieutenant.

813
01:21:04,611 --> 01:21:08,655
Don't ever give up the case
before the jury comes in.

814
01:21:08,740 --> 01:21:10,574
Don't kid yourself.

815
01:21:11,284 --> 01:21:13,994
So what? What's so bad
about the Pentagon?

816
01:21:14,078 --> 01:21:16,955
Good food, cocktails.

817
01:21:19,918 --> 01:21:23,921
- Well, sir, that was short and sweet.
- I'll bet it was.

818
01:21:26,717 --> 01:21:30,887
Unpack. The IG didn't even
make an opening speech.

819
01:21:30,971 --> 01:21:33,973
Bishop withdrew his transfer.

820
01:21:34,558 --> 01:21:36,976
Wilson followed, and the rest climbed
aboard.

821
01:21:37,061 --> 01:21:40,146
Left the IG with nothing to do
but go home.

822
01:21:40,230 --> 01:21:41,981
What do you know?

823
01:21:52,743 --> 01:21:55,871
Where's that briefcase?
I had it a minute ago.

824
01:21:55,956 --> 01:21:58,123
They couldn't buck you forever.

825
01:21:58,208 --> 01:22:01,752
They realize they had a chance
with you leading.

826
01:22:02,420 --> 01:22:06,006
Better not count on one man.
Don't make that mistake.

827
01:22:06,508 --> 01:22:10,970
It wouldn't be bad to cut loose
with a few passes to London.

828
01:22:11,054 --> 01:22:12,846
A pat on the back.

829
01:22:14,557 --> 01:22:16,392
I see what you mean.

830
01:22:17,143 --> 01:22:19,019
Kiss and make up, huh?

831
01:22:22,107 --> 01:22:25,235
You kiss them for shedding
their diapers.

832
01:22:25,319 --> 01:22:28,947
Tell them we're going to work
on building leadership.

833
01:22:29,532 --> 01:22:34,452
Tell them you're gonna lead
the next one, and it better be good.

834
01:22:34,870 --> 01:22:38,331
Tell Bishop he'll find out
what it feels like.

835
01:22:38,416 --> 01:22:43,586
I want every man who shows signs
of being able to lead a mule to water.

836
01:22:43,671 --> 01:22:46,381
I want them all to have a crack.

837
01:22:46,465 --> 01:22:50,802
You're out from under
those second lieutenant bars.

838
01:22:50,886 --> 01:22:52,554
Let's get to work.

839
01:22:56,518 --> 01:23:00,396
- Why burn 3 feet off my tail surface?
- Tough man?

840
01:23:00,480 --> 01:23:03,649
He's taking this iron-tail business
too far.

841
01:23:03,734 --> 01:23:06,027
Yeah, he's pretty iron-tailed.

842
01:23:07,237 --> 01:23:10,740
He'll never feel for the group
like Davenport did.

843
01:23:10,824 --> 01:23:16,245
- Nothing will eat holes through him.
- There's such a thing as being human.

844
01:23:17,164 --> 01:23:23,086
You know what? The only difference
between Savage and Davenport...

845
01:23:23,171 --> 01:23:27,340
is that Savage is about
that much taller.

846
01:23:28,551 --> 01:23:30,218
I don't get it.

847
01:23:34,265 --> 01:23:38,602
Hey, Joe. How come you ain't
leading this one? Been a bad boy?

848
01:23:40,229 --> 01:23:43,440
You know Joe, he only leads
the milk runs.

849
01:23:43,524 --> 01:23:46,651
Where are we going?
Pull back the curtain.

850
01:23:47,111 --> 01:23:50,781
- You'll wish I was leading it.
- Attention!

851
01:24:00,584 --> 01:24:01,959
Rest.

852
01:24:05,589 --> 01:24:08,007
This you'll be interested to know:

853
01:24:08,092 --> 01:24:11,719
Intelligence says
the German aircraft industry...

854
01:24:12,304 --> 01:24:16,724
was converted to the production
of fighter planes for defense.

855
01:24:17,142 --> 01:24:18,976
Fighters are being withdrawn...

856
01:24:19,061 --> 01:24:22,314
from the Russian front
to defend this one.

857
01:24:23,566 --> 01:24:26,110
They must have heard about the 918th!

858
01:24:29,197 --> 01:24:31,740
This morning's mission is important.

859
01:24:32,200 --> 01:24:34,576
- For the first time...
- Germany.

860
01:24:35,954 --> 01:24:37,496
You said it.

861
01:24:41,835 --> 01:24:43,418
Wilhelmshaven.

862
01:24:44,712 --> 01:24:48,257
For the first time we'll be targeting
German soil.

863
01:24:48,800 --> 01:24:52,846
I'll lead. Bishop, high squadron,
Hollerman the low.

864
01:24:53,305 --> 01:24:54,931
All right, Joe.

865
01:24:55,015 --> 01:24:57,058
Stations, 0700.

866
01:24:57,893 --> 01:24:59,894
Start engines, 0710.

867
01:25:00,688 --> 01:25:02,730
Taxi, 0720.

868
01:25:55,661 --> 01:25:57,287
Got a cigarette?

869
01:26:18,100 --> 01:26:19,685
They're heading in.

870
01:26:19,770 --> 01:26:21,896
- How many?
- I don't know, sir.

871
01:26:24,107 --> 01:26:27,109
Here they come.
They're approaching the field.

872
01:26:58,142 --> 01:26:59,351
Nine.

873
01:27:17,871 --> 01:27:19,205
Fourteen.

874
01:27:19,748 --> 01:27:21,416
Fifteen, sixteen.

875
01:28:10,383 --> 01:28:12,176
How was it, sir?

876
01:28:12,260 --> 01:28:15,304
Rough. They were waiting for us.
The count?

877
01:28:15,388 --> 01:28:18,933
Two. Looked like four.
O'Neal made it to Lincolnshire.

878
01:28:19,393 --> 01:28:23,730
Gately ditched in the Channel
and was picked up. Two wounded.

879
01:28:23,814 --> 01:28:26,149
Let's get up to interrogation.

880
01:28:41,374 --> 01:28:43,416
- Mclllhenny.
- Yes, sir.

881
01:28:48,090 --> 01:28:50,341
- Were you in my ship?
- No, sir.

882
01:28:52,552 --> 01:28:56,097
- That is... Yes, sir.
- Who authorized it?

883
01:28:56,723 --> 01:29:01,227
No one. But I've been checked out as
a gunner. I had to make the big ones.

884
01:29:02,062 --> 01:29:06,065
I won't have personnel
jeopardizing aircraft safety.

885
01:29:06,149 --> 01:29:10,111
Maybe you'll keep on the ground
by removing those stripes.

886
01:29:10,195 --> 01:29:12,655
And this time you stay a private.

887
01:29:14,450 --> 01:29:17,035
- Get up to interrogation.
- Yes, sir.

888
01:29:28,506 --> 01:29:32,300
I want a critique of the mission
first thing in the morning.

889
01:29:33,094 --> 01:29:36,721
We might stand down a few days
with the weather.

890
01:29:36,806 --> 01:29:40,767
They're ready for a breather.
Deal out some passes for London.

891
01:29:41,394 --> 01:29:44,689
I gotta talk to you
about Sgt. Mclllhenny.

892
01:29:44,773 --> 01:29:48,025
- What about him?
- Busting him complicates things.

893
01:29:48,485 --> 01:29:50,319
How?

894
01:29:50,404 --> 01:29:54,115
It's the precedent. We'd have
to bust Captain Twombley too.

895
01:29:54,700 --> 01:29:58,244
- What about him?
- He stowed away too.

896
01:29:58,328 --> 01:30:01,747
Bishop found out over Wilhelmshaven.

897
01:30:01,832 --> 01:30:05,251
He heard the parson praying
when he was firing.

898
01:30:09,798 --> 01:30:12,049
Now I've heard everything.

899
01:30:12,134 --> 01:30:14,261
I'm afraid you haven't.

900
01:30:14,345 --> 01:30:17,473
I'll give it to you in one slug.
No, thank you.

901
01:30:18,183 --> 01:30:21,435
Harvey Stovall and Doc Kaiser
flew with Klein.

902
01:30:21,519 --> 01:30:24,855
The whole ground echelon
was some place on this one.

903
01:30:26,566 --> 01:30:29,276
- Any of them hurt?
- Don't think so, sir.

904
01:30:29,694 --> 01:30:32,446
One more thing about Mclllhenny...

905
01:30:32,530 --> 01:30:36,783
he's been credited with
two FWs destroyed and one probable.

906
01:30:36,868 --> 01:30:38,869
A born gunner, I guess.

907
01:30:45,377 --> 01:30:49,047
- Did you know about this, Joe?
- No, sir, I didn't.

908
01:30:49,548 --> 01:30:52,717
- I hope you don't think...
- All right, all right.

909
01:31:02,061 --> 01:31:03,728
Twombley, Stovall!

910
01:31:05,397 --> 01:31:06,648
Come over here.

911
01:31:24,084 --> 01:31:27,044
You're pretty proud of yourselves,
I suppose.

912
01:31:28,505 --> 01:31:31,924
- Let me...
- I hoped you wouldn't go into this.

913
01:31:32,008 --> 01:31:34,843
I think I am suffering
from combat fatigue.

914
01:31:40,433 --> 01:31:45,438
I'm gonna weaken, just this once.
I'll probably live to regret it.

915
01:31:46,482 --> 01:31:49,818
You got the bulge on me.
I can't bust everybody.

916
01:31:49,902 --> 01:31:53,738
With an understanding
that your combat days are over.

917
01:31:53,823 --> 01:31:56,032
You ought to know better.

918
01:31:56,117 --> 01:31:59,369
I won't like having to write
a letter to your wife.

919
01:32:00,621 --> 01:32:03,540
You, Padre, your business is sin.

920
01:32:04,125 --> 01:32:08,461
You'll confine your activities to that
theater of operations. Clear?

921
01:32:09,589 --> 01:32:10,965
Yes, sir.

922
01:32:17,472 --> 01:32:19,390
Hit anything up there?

923
01:32:19,474 --> 01:32:24,687
Sir, my glasses were frosted over,
but I think I got a piece of one.

924
01:32:25,647 --> 01:32:27,273
Ours or theirs?

925
01:32:37,242 --> 01:32:40,495
Mclllhenny.
I heard about those two FWs.

926
01:32:41,539 --> 01:32:44,416
- Put the chevrons back on.
- Yes, sir.

927
01:32:44,500 --> 01:32:48,670
If we keep on having these ups
and downs, get zippers.

928
01:32:48,755 --> 01:32:50,172
Yes, sir!

929
01:32:56,179 --> 01:32:58,847
- When are they due back?
- Any time now.

930
01:33:40,100 --> 01:33:42,351
Call the tower. Get a count.

931
01:33:43,770 --> 01:33:46,480
Tower. What's the count?

932
01:33:46,898 --> 01:33:50,317
Twenty back, one missing. 397.

933
01:33:51,569 --> 01:33:53,696
We lost one, 397.

934
01:33:56,241 --> 01:33:58,242
Lieutenant Bishop, sir.

935
01:34:07,669 --> 01:34:09,170
Thanks, sergeant.

936
01:34:41,496 --> 01:34:44,165
- See any chutes?
- No.

937
01:34:44,791 --> 01:34:49,754
Jesse got a direct burst right over
the target. They didn't have a chance.

938
01:34:51,047 --> 01:34:56,051
He was a swell kid. One
of the best pilots. He would get it.

939
01:34:56,136 --> 01:34:59,430
Could've been much worse.
And battle damage?

940
01:34:59,514 --> 01:35:01,640
Everybody caught plenty.

941
01:35:04,394 --> 01:35:06,813
- More coffee, general?
- General...

942
01:35:07,815 --> 01:35:12,027
- I tried to phone you about Gately.
- Did he get hit?

943
01:35:12,111 --> 01:35:15,989
No, sir. But right after he landed,
he passed out cold.

944
01:35:17,074 --> 01:35:22,162
I should've examined him, but he
didn't report an injury the other day.

945
01:35:22,830 --> 01:35:26,833
The x-rays show a crack
in the lip of the vertebrate body.

946
01:35:29,045 --> 01:35:30,295
Painful?

947
01:35:30,379 --> 01:35:33,381
Incredibly.
He's flown three missions with it.

948
01:35:39,097 --> 01:35:43,768
- A fractured spine?
- That's it. I've put him in traction.

949
01:35:46,772 --> 01:35:48,022
Gately.

950
01:35:49,817 --> 01:35:51,400
Okay, Doc.

951
01:35:51,485 --> 01:35:53,653
Thanks for letting me know.

952
01:35:54,655 --> 01:35:57,114
- Now I'll have that coffee.
- Okay.

953
01:37:00,931 --> 01:37:03,934
Anyone in particular
you'd like to see, sir?

954
01:37:04,019 --> 01:37:07,313
No, thanks, lieutenant.
Just looking around.

955
01:37:07,898 --> 01:37:10,983
- Go right on with what you were doing.
- Yes, sir.

956
01:37:15,822 --> 01:37:19,950
- That'll cut in on your crap-shooting.
- It's costing me.

957
01:37:20,035 --> 01:37:22,870
- How long will you be here?
- Ten days.

958
01:37:22,954 --> 01:37:25,873
- Tell me if I can do anything.
- Thanks.

959
01:37:25,957 --> 01:37:29,126
Birdwell, they get all that flak
out of you?

960
01:37:29,210 --> 01:37:34,132
Just about, sir. Doc didn't need
no mine detector to find it.

961
01:37:34,216 --> 01:37:38,929
- You getting enough chow?
- Just living in the tall cotton, sir.

962
01:37:48,522 --> 01:37:51,524
- How are you feeling, Ben?
- I'm okay, general.

963
01:37:52,735 --> 01:37:55,612
I was sorry to hear
about your bad luck.

964
01:37:55,696 --> 01:37:57,364
Thank you, sir.

965
01:37:58,366 --> 01:38:00,825
Doc didn't waste much time.

966
01:38:02,286 --> 01:38:04,330
Oh, excuse me, Ben.

967
01:38:05,540 --> 01:38:07,041
That's pretty sensitive, huh?

968
01:38:08,543 --> 01:38:10,336
That's okay, general.

969
01:38:12,381 --> 01:38:14,298
Go ahead and sit down.

970
01:38:15,300 --> 01:38:17,009
I'd rather stand.

971
01:38:18,136 --> 01:38:22,139
I've been piling up more sitting time
than flying time anyway.

972
01:38:23,517 --> 01:38:27,603
What kind of a gadget is this?
Part of the Wright brothers' plane?

973
01:38:28,355 --> 01:38:30,523
Looks uncomfortable enough.

974
01:38:32,610 --> 01:38:36,071
- Help the back any?
- Relieves the pressure a bit, sir.

975
01:38:37,323 --> 01:38:40,450
How long did Doc say
you're gonna be laid up?

976
01:38:40,535 --> 01:38:42,202
A few weeks, sir.

977
01:38:43,997 --> 01:38:46,915
- Is it pretty painful?
- Not much, sir.

978
01:38:50,545 --> 01:38:53,755
- Guess you don't feel like talking...
- Go ahead.

979
01:39:03,726 --> 01:39:05,018
Ben...

980
01:39:09,231 --> 01:39:10,523
Yes, sir?

981
01:39:16,905 --> 01:39:18,948
I was just gonna say...

982
01:39:20,451 --> 01:39:24,370
Anything you want?
Something I can send you?

983
01:39:29,084 --> 01:39:32,588
Not a thing, general.
I've got everything I need.

984
01:39:35,258 --> 01:39:37,885
Let us know if you need anything.

985
01:39:38,887 --> 01:39:40,429
Thank you, sir.

986
01:39:44,934 --> 01:39:48,145
I'm gonna drop in across the hall.

987
01:39:50,732 --> 01:39:52,775
I'll be seeing you, Ben.

988
01:40:26,143 --> 01:40:29,188
I'll have to rate you
a Class A customer.

989
01:40:29,272 --> 01:40:32,399
I just learned you're something
"extra special."

990
01:40:51,086 --> 01:40:55,881
This mission has been handed us
by the combined chiefs of staff.

991
01:40:56,591 --> 01:41:01,471
It is a target of critical importance,
which requires deep penetration...

992
01:41:02,181 --> 01:41:04,975
far beyond possible
fighter support.

993
01:41:05,059 --> 01:41:09,062
If we can destroy it,
we'll have proved daylight bombing.

994
01:41:09,772 --> 01:41:14,568
This is the one we've waited for.
With our limited equipment...

995
01:41:14,652 --> 01:41:18,947
it'll take three trips to carry
enough bombs to destroy the target.

996
01:41:19,740 --> 01:41:24,244
You will have to plan these strikes
down to the last pint of gas...

997
01:41:24,871 --> 01:41:28,749
the last pound of load,
the last second of time.

998
01:41:30,711 --> 01:41:32,920
All right, Colonel Davenport.

999
01:41:44,725 --> 01:41:48,186
There it is, what we're after.
Ball bearings.

1000
01:41:49,021 --> 01:41:54,358
Almost the entire German production
is concentrated here.

1001
01:41:55,569 --> 01:41:59,489
Without ball bearings, the German
armament industry will halt.

1002
01:42:03,953 --> 01:42:07,080
I wish I had something stronger
for you, Frank.

1003
01:42:09,334 --> 01:42:12,294
If we pull this off,
things will pick up.

1004
01:42:12,378 --> 01:42:16,006
- We may get three or four new groups.
- Growing up, huh?

1005
01:42:16,591 --> 01:42:20,344
How soon do you think you can
come back up here and help me?

1006
01:42:21,012 --> 01:42:23,764
That's hard to say, sir.

1007
01:42:23,848 --> 01:42:26,643
Why?
On paper the group looks fine now.

1008
01:42:27,394 --> 01:42:29,938
Leadership's a problem, always has.

1009
01:42:30,981 --> 01:42:33,691
Haven't you got the personnel?

1010
01:42:34,193 --> 01:42:37,028
There's nothing wrong
with our personnel.

1011
01:42:37,112 --> 01:42:39,322
I lost Bishop and Hollerman.

1012
01:42:40,032 --> 01:42:43,868
Cobb's okay. So's Gately,
but he's just out of the hospital.

1013
01:42:44,787 --> 01:42:46,412
Takes time to know.

1014
01:42:48,040 --> 01:42:51,918
- How long before you will know?
- I don't know that one either.

1015
01:42:52,920 --> 01:42:58,384
How can you be sure? How do you know
what you're pushing Gately into?

1016
01:42:58,468 --> 01:43:04,014
How do we know we didn't send Bishop
up once too often? I'm down there...

1017
01:43:04,099 --> 01:43:06,767
Frank! You're swinging after the bell.

1018
01:43:08,228 --> 01:43:12,147
Tell me something. What was
the name of the man you relieved?

1019
01:43:12,983 --> 01:43:14,566
Who, Keith?

1020
01:43:14,651 --> 01:43:19,029
Remember his trouble? You're not
propping them up too, are you?

1021
01:43:19,739 --> 01:43:21,740
Take a good look, Frank.

1022
01:43:25,036 --> 01:43:26,705
Do you think that?

1023
01:43:28,624 --> 01:43:30,709
It would be natural enough.

1024
01:43:32,461 --> 01:43:35,422
The things you go through
with those boys.

1025
01:43:35,506 --> 01:43:38,008
Working your way out of the hole.

1026
01:43:38,676 --> 01:43:41,261
It's hard not to let them
get to you.

1027
01:43:41,345 --> 01:43:45,181
You've been flying more missions
rather than less.

1028
01:43:45,266 --> 01:43:48,351
I'm the one who's got
to shove them up there.

1029
01:43:49,186 --> 01:43:52,605
Until they're ready,
I won't turn them loose.

1030
01:43:52,690 --> 01:43:56,235
All right, Frank.
Make it as soon as you can, will you?

1031
01:43:57,154 --> 01:44:00,031
- You bet I will, sir.
- You'll tell me when?

1032
01:44:00,115 --> 01:44:03,326
- Yes, sir.
- Bring me back a ball bearing.

1033
01:44:04,119 --> 01:44:07,788
As a personal favor,
keep yourself in one piece.

1034
01:44:07,873 --> 01:44:10,833
That seems like a reasonable request.

1035
01:44:10,917 --> 01:44:13,127
- Good night, sir.
- Good night.

1036
01:44:28,561 --> 01:44:33,815
I want the files on all the air execs
and operations officers...

1037
01:44:33,900 --> 01:44:37,694
recommending those who'd
take over in an emergency.

1038
01:44:37,779 --> 01:44:41,365
- Anything special?
- No, but keep it to yourself.

1039
01:44:41,449 --> 01:44:43,200
- Yes, sir.
- Thanks.

1040
01:45:01,053 --> 01:45:03,971
- Tail wheel?
- Locked. Light off, sir.

1041
01:45:09,812 --> 01:45:10,937
Brakes.

1042
01:45:59,822 --> 01:46:02,115
Over splasher beacon 9, navigator.

1043
01:46:02,199 --> 01:46:05,577
Set course
for combat wing assembly line.

1044
01:46:06,370 --> 01:46:10,165
Tail gunner, let me know
when the other groups tack on to me.

1045
01:46:39,321 --> 01:46:44,033
Savage to crew.
10,000 feet. Go on oxygen.

1046
01:46:45,494 --> 01:46:51,208
From now on we're registering
on the enemy radar screen.

1047
01:46:51,709 --> 01:46:55,462
Watch your talk.
Don't tell them more than we have to.

1048
01:47:04,180 --> 01:47:09,518
Navigator to commander. Departing
English coast on course, on time, sir.

1049
01:47:10,811 --> 01:47:15,273
Savage to gunners.
Okay to test your guns.

1050
01:47:30,832 --> 01:47:32,708
Yeah. Again?

1051
01:47:33,168 --> 01:47:34,377
Picked them up yet?

1052
01:47:34,461 --> 01:47:37,755
- The air ministry's on the scrambler.
- Say it again.

1053
01:47:38,340 --> 01:47:41,092
All right. Thanks.
I'll ring you again.

1054
01:47:43,428 --> 01:47:47,181
Your aircraft is approaching
the enemy coast at 24,000 feet.

1055
01:47:48,141 --> 01:47:53,272
Our intercept station reports the
largest enemy reaction ever recorded.

1056
01:47:54,649 --> 01:47:58,443
They're ordering down units
from as north as Denmark...

1057
01:47:58,528 --> 01:48:01,071
and as far south as lafu Five.

1058
01:48:01,155 --> 01:48:02,990
Here's a new wrinkle.

1059
01:48:03,449 --> 01:48:07,327
They're instructing pilots
to ram your aircraft if necessary.

1060
01:48:15,712 --> 01:48:17,170
Navigator.

1061
01:48:17,547 --> 01:48:20,258
Do you think
we crossed the enemy coast?

1062
01:48:20,342 --> 01:48:22,385
Yes, sir. We sure have.

1063
01:48:27,349 --> 01:48:31,394
Change course.
Fifteen degrees left.

1064
01:48:44,366 --> 01:48:48,704
Heads up, everybody.
Look out for fighters.

1065
01:48:52,500 --> 01:48:55,836
Four FWs 10 o'clock level. Climbing.

1066
01:48:55,920 --> 01:48:57,963
I'm coming up on the side!

1067
01:48:58,048 --> 01:49:02,092
You on the inter-phone.
Be specific. How many? Where?

1068
01:49:02,177 --> 01:49:04,595
Eleven FWs three o'clock.

1069
01:49:05,680 --> 01:49:10,601
On your toes, both squadrons.
Here they come. Twelve o'clock high.

1070
01:49:10,685 --> 01:49:13,687
Cobb, they're heading
for the high squadron.

1071
01:50:14,000 --> 01:50:17,170
Birdwell got a direct hit.
He's going down.

1072
01:50:19,590 --> 01:50:22,926
- Squadrons climbing at 12 o'clock.
- I see them.

1073
01:50:23,010 --> 01:50:27,180
Six more, nine o'clock level.
About a mile.

1074
01:50:27,265 --> 01:50:30,267
Gately, pull that squadron forward.

1075
01:50:30,685 --> 01:50:33,228
Abel to Baker and Charlie leaders.

1076
01:50:33,312 --> 01:50:36,773
They'll fake an attack
to cover the real one.

1077
01:50:36,858 --> 01:50:39,776
Watch out for mass attacks,
eight and 10 abreast.

1078
01:50:59,006 --> 01:51:02,175
More coming around from one.
Watch them!

1079
01:51:26,284 --> 01:51:29,411
I got one. He's bailing out.

1080
01:51:43,384 --> 01:51:47,514
17 dropping out of blue squadron.
In trouble. Keep an eye on him.

1081
01:51:51,143 --> 01:51:52,936
Two men bailing out.

1082
01:51:55,689 --> 01:51:58,024
Three more. They're on fire.

1083
01:52:01,028 --> 01:52:03,780
Save your ammunition.
We got a way to go..

1084
01:52:03,864 --> 01:52:06,699
Shorten bursts. Don't waste rounds.

1085
01:52:34,521 --> 01:52:37,189
B-17 out of control, three o'clock.

1086
01:53:08,472 --> 01:53:10,765
There goes another Charlie, sir.

1087
01:53:21,278 --> 01:53:24,572
Navigator, did we make up
that 2.5 minutes yet?

1088
01:53:24,656 --> 01:53:27,366
Yes, sir. We... Watch out!

1089
01:53:27,451 --> 01:53:31,537
If it doesn't shift any more,
we'll be okay at control 0.7.

1090
01:53:31,622 --> 01:53:34,457
Here come three more.
Close it up tight.

1091
01:53:43,760 --> 01:53:46,178
Savage to crew. How bad are we hit?

1092
01:53:46,262 --> 01:53:50,265
We're hit bad, sir,
in radio compartment, on fire.

1093
01:53:50,350 --> 01:53:52,726
See what you can do about it.

1094
01:53:52,810 --> 01:53:56,647
Rest of crew,
hold your stations. Let's settle down.

1095
01:53:57,982 --> 01:54:00,984
Bombardier to commander.
Fly at 12 o'clock.

1096
01:54:02,153 --> 01:54:04,905
We can forget about fighters
for a while.

1097
01:54:06,324 --> 01:54:08,325
Abel to Baker and Charlie Force.

1098
01:54:08,409 --> 01:54:12,997
Change of plan. Start your bomb run
from Halstuben.

1099
01:54:13,374 --> 01:54:15,291
Charlie leader. Wilco.

1100
01:54:15,376 --> 01:54:21,297
Baker to Abel. We'll be bombing in
a crosswind. Secondary target clear.

1101
01:54:21,757 --> 01:54:24,717
Abel to Baker. No dice.
We'll hit the primary.

1102
01:54:24,802 --> 01:54:28,471
- Your new IP is Halstuben.
- Roger.

1103
01:54:42,112 --> 01:54:46,615
- Halstuben dead ahead, sir.
- Pilot to bombardier. Center PDI.

1104
01:54:48,243 --> 01:54:49,952
PDI centered, sir.

1105
01:54:50,036 --> 01:54:54,123
Pilot to bombardier.
You're flying the airplane now.

1106
01:54:58,211 --> 01:54:59,712
Bomb bay doors open.

1107
01:55:49,514 --> 01:55:53,559
We clobbered them! Right on
the button. We're heading home.

1108
01:55:53,643 --> 01:55:56,645
How's that formation back there?

1109
01:55:56,730 --> 01:56:00,524
Baker Force reassembling.
Charlie Force is strung out bad.

1110
01:56:00,609 --> 01:56:03,861
- FWs attacking stragglers.
- Abel to Charlie.

1111
01:56:03,945 --> 01:56:09,117
We'll give you a turn to the left.
Cut across and get back in formation.

1112
01:56:09,202 --> 01:56:12,662
We'll be turning over a heavy flak,
though, sir.

1113
01:56:12,747 --> 01:56:16,625
Better than leaving
those stragglers to the fighters.

1114
01:56:16,709 --> 01:56:18,293
Roger.

1115
01:56:21,172 --> 01:56:22,798
Direct burst.

1116
01:56:24,050 --> 01:56:27,594
Bail out, Joe. Bail out!
Jump, you guys, jump!

1117
01:57:19,858 --> 01:57:24,194
Well, Keith.
Welcome to Operation Stovall.

1118
01:57:24,279 --> 01:57:28,866
- How does it look for tomorrow?
- Can't tell yet. Lots of damage.

1119
01:57:29,534 --> 01:57:32,578
- I'm sorry about Joe.
- That's the way it goes.

1120
01:57:33,371 --> 01:57:35,455
- How's the weather?
- Looks okay.

1121
01:57:35,540 --> 01:57:39,002
Looks like all we've got left
to do is get it done.

1122
01:57:39,587 --> 01:57:42,797
- The old man was mighty pleased.
- He ought to be.

1123
01:57:43,424 --> 01:57:46,718
Tomorrow might wash it up
if we're any good.

1124
01:57:46,802 --> 01:57:49,470
- Know he went on the mission?
- No!

1125
01:57:49,555 --> 01:57:53,558
Slipped into Mayer's. He didn't
know until he crossed the coast.

1126
01:57:55,686 --> 01:57:58,980
So the old man's
stowing away these days, huh?

1127
01:57:59,064 --> 01:58:04,485
If I'd known, I'd have cut him closer
with the flak. How are the others?

1128
01:58:04,570 --> 01:58:07,489
They'll put up the maximum
for tomorrow.

1129
01:58:07,574 --> 01:58:11,327
Maximum. Maximum effort.

1130
01:58:12,829 --> 01:58:15,080
Are you drunk, Colonel Stovall?

1131
01:58:15,916 --> 01:58:17,458
I am a little.

1132
01:58:18,168 --> 01:58:23,297
I believe I warned the general
it might happen again sometime.

1133
01:58:24,007 --> 01:58:28,552
Well, keep it going until
tomorrow night and I'll join you.

1134
01:58:28,637 --> 01:58:30,679
I believe I shall, sir.

1135
01:58:30,764 --> 01:58:33,599
Harvey drew
the worst end of the racket.

1136
01:58:33,683 --> 01:58:38,688
Sitting, watching them come and go,
all those stinking papers.

1137
01:58:38,773 --> 01:58:41,107
That is not why I am drunk.

1138
01:58:42,526 --> 01:58:45,278
I got drunk because I am confused.

1139
01:58:46,948 --> 01:58:50,533
I was thinking,
which is a thing one should not do.

1140
01:58:51,786 --> 01:58:55,705
Then I couldn't remember
what any of them looked like.

1141
01:58:55,790 --> 01:58:57,999
I couldn't see their faces.

1142
01:58:58,793 --> 01:59:00,502
Bishop, Cobb...

1143
01:59:01,462 --> 01:59:03,756
Wilson, Zimmy.

1144
01:59:03,840 --> 01:59:05,299
All of them.

1145
01:59:06,969 --> 01:59:08,427
All of you.

1146
01:59:09,638 --> 01:59:13,474
They all looked alike.
Just one face...

1147
01:59:15,060 --> 01:59:18,229
and it was very young.
It confused me.

1148
01:59:19,940 --> 01:59:22,149
I think I shall stay drunk...

1149
01:59:23,652 --> 01:59:27,154
until I'm not confused anymore.

1150
01:59:28,824 --> 01:59:30,658
Stay with it, Harvey.

1151
01:59:32,119 --> 01:59:35,122
You boys will have to
carouse someplace else.

1152
01:59:35,206 --> 01:59:37,165
Good night, sir.

1153
01:59:37,250 --> 01:59:40,544
Good night, Keith.
Am I gonna sleep tonight.

1154
01:59:40,628 --> 01:59:42,879
- Good night, sir.
- Good night.

1155
01:59:57,145 --> 01:59:59,438
Guess it's about that time.

1156
02:00:00,857 --> 02:00:02,567
Good luck, Frank.

1157
02:00:08,073 --> 02:00:09,657
Good luck, sir.

1158
02:01:16,477 --> 02:01:19,145
- What's the matter, sir?
- I don't know.

1159
02:01:20,773 --> 02:01:24,526
- Are you sick?
- Something's wrong. My arm won't work.

1160
02:01:25,611 --> 02:01:27,529
You want me to take it?

1161
02:01:28,239 --> 02:01:29,739
No. Tell...

1162
02:01:30,241 --> 02:01:31,534
Tell...

1163
02:01:32,244 --> 02:01:36,122
- Tell Gately to take it.
- Yes, sir. He'll take it.

1164
02:01:45,465 --> 02:01:47,466
Get a hold of Doc Kaiser.

1165
02:01:48,093 --> 02:01:50,094
I'll take the lead ship.

1166
02:02:00,273 --> 02:02:02,232
Where's my oxygen mask?

1167
02:02:02,316 --> 02:02:04,776
Frank. Come on, Frank.

1168
02:02:04,861 --> 02:02:06,862
Come on, get in the jeep.

1169
02:02:14,912 --> 02:02:17,289
Frank, are you sick?

1170
02:02:27,008 --> 02:02:28,341
Stop it!

1171
02:02:28,801 --> 02:02:30,219
Stop it!

1172
02:02:30,512 --> 02:02:33,181
I'm right here, Frank. It's okay.

1173
02:02:49,573 --> 02:02:51,365
He can't make it!

1174
02:02:53,327 --> 02:02:55,077
They can't go!

1175
02:02:55,162 --> 02:02:57,413
You can't send them out again.

1176
02:02:58,040 --> 02:02:59,541
Stop them!

1177
02:02:59,876 --> 02:03:01,418
Stop them!

1178
02:03:27,487 --> 02:03:29,113
Cigarette, Frank?

1179
02:03:30,199 --> 02:03:31,866
How about a smoke?

1180
02:03:43,712 --> 02:03:45,338
What do you make of it?

1181
02:03:45,422 --> 02:03:49,926
State of shock. Complete collapse.
Everything let go at once.

1182
02:03:50,302 --> 02:03:53,596
Can't you give him a hypo?
Knock him out?

1183
02:03:54,098 --> 02:03:56,933
In his condition,
it wouldn't be any good.

1184
02:03:57,644 --> 02:04:00,229
He's up there with the mission.

1185
02:04:00,313 --> 02:04:03,065
When they get back, maybe he'll let go.

1186
02:04:04,276 --> 02:04:05,526
I hope.

1187
02:04:06,695 --> 02:04:09,905
I never figured it could
happen to him.

1188
02:04:09,990 --> 02:04:14,910
I did. He swept his feelings under
the carpet. It had to spill out.

1189
02:04:14,995 --> 02:04:17,705
But he was full of fight at briefing.

1190
02:04:17,789 --> 02:04:22,585
Have you seen a light bulb burn out?
How bright the filament is before?

1191
02:04:23,461 --> 02:04:26,005
I think they call it maximum effort.

1192
02:04:55,161 --> 02:04:56,829
Colonel Davenport.

1193
02:04:58,290 --> 02:05:00,499
That's fine. Thanks very much.

1194
02:05:01,001 --> 02:05:03,002
The strike report, Frank.

1195
02:05:05,631 --> 02:05:07,798
They hit the primary okay.

1196
02:05:09,051 --> 02:05:11,344
Gately reports, "Results good."

1197
02:05:12,804 --> 02:05:14,805
They clobbered it, Frank.

1198
02:05:16,642 --> 02:05:19,352
Frank, try and listen to me.

1199
02:05:20,228 --> 02:05:23,189
I know just what you're feeling.

1200
02:05:23,940 --> 02:05:25,817
You think you blew it.

1201
02:05:26,277 --> 02:05:28,904
What do you expect of yourself, Frank?

1202
02:05:31,741 --> 02:05:32,991
Look.

1203
02:05:33,660 --> 02:05:36,828
I saw something in those
kids' faces at briefing.

1204
02:05:37,330 --> 02:05:39,456
Something I never put there.

1205
02:05:39,999 --> 02:05:44,211
You were gonna make them grow up,
remember? They were this morning.

1206
02:05:45,463 --> 02:05:47,506
You're up there with them.

1207
02:05:48,091 --> 02:05:51,718
You're riding in every crew station
and in every cockpit.

1208
02:05:54,097 --> 02:05:58,559
That's right. Don't listen to me.
Sit there and do it the hard way.

1209
02:05:59,436 --> 02:06:01,688
Tell yourself that you blew it.

1210
02:06:01,772 --> 02:06:05,316
Eat your guts out until
you're hollow inside.

1211
02:06:05,401 --> 02:06:07,485
Don't let anybody help you!

1212
02:06:30,760 --> 02:06:32,553
They're back, Frank.

1213
02:06:35,348 --> 02:06:37,224
Six.
Seven.

1214
02:07:17,266 --> 02:07:18,433
Eight.

1215
02:07:18,976 --> 02:07:20,101
Nine.

1216
02:07:20,811 --> 02:07:21,978
Ten.

1217
02:07:23,482 --> 02:07:25,149
Piccadilly Lily.

1218
02:07:26,276 --> 02:07:27,485
Eleven.

1219
02:07:28,528 --> 02:07:29,779
Twelve.

1220
02:07:31,072 --> 02:07:32,323
Thirteen.

1221
02:07:34,159 --> 02:07:35,493
Fourteen.

1222
02:07:36,995 --> 02:07:39,747
Fifteen. Sixteen.

1223
02:08:27,965 --> 02:08:29,465
Control Tower.

1224
02:08:34,012 --> 02:08:36,389
- Tower.
- Did you get a count?

1225
02:08:36,473 --> 02:08:39,517
Twenty-one dispatched,
nineteen returned, sir.

1226
02:08:40,269 --> 02:08:42,562
The boys really did it today.

1227
02:08:47,860 --> 02:08:49,235
Nineteen.

1228
02:08:52,490 --> 02:08:54,032
They made it.

1229
02:08:56,202 --> 02:08:57,870
Nineteen of them.

1230
02:09:00,456 --> 02:09:02,457
- Who led?
- Ben Gately.

1231
02:09:05,670 --> 02:09:07,546
Is he back all right?

1232
02:09:07,964 --> 02:09:09,882
Yes, Frank. He's back.

1233
02:09:26,859 --> 02:09:28,484
I'm kind of tired.

1234
02:09:30,863 --> 02:09:32,590
I think I'll go to sleep
for a little while.