twelve o'clock high : S1E02 Follow The Leader 

Thanks for sharing, an epic time in history, maybe THE MOST, bravery is understatement 👏😮

God Bless your father and fellow Marines 🙏🏻 ❤️ Semper Fi!

Dam I never knew that R.I.P 💯

We lost more Aviators in WW 2 than in all total in Viet Nam. That hurts my heart having been an Air Force Nurse during VN war.

My dad was a B-17 pilot, 34 missions over Nazi occupied Europe. I asked him many questions about his experiences and he freely answered. After the war he became a family doctor. Through my dad I’ve taken such a big interesting history particularly World War II.

They are very special men who must be remembered for how we are today.

It's Col. but he was a brigadier..

He's a BrigGen in the show. That's a O-3 in the rank system.

Savage was a Brigadier General, paygrade 0-7

I AGREE SO MUCH!! RECALL WATCHING THIS SERIES WITH MY MARINE CORPS FATHER (SERVED AS RADIO OPERATOR IN PACIFIC IN WW2) AND LATER A STATE POLICE TROOPER / MECHANIC / RACING CARS / MOTORCYCLES / PLANES & PILOT - MEMORIES FROM MY CHILDHOOD IN LATE 1950s - EARLY 60s!! READ AND LEARN A LITTLE BIT SOME MORE!! = D.E.T. (Baltimore /// Friday afternoon - August 4th, 2023) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigadier_general_(United_States) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighth_Air_Force en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Air_Forces en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_O'Clock_High_(TV_series) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lansing_(actor) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_B-17_Flying_Fortress

Absolutely agree, Burke was real good, but Lansing was great!

I will not watch after season 1.

Yes he's was but I personally had a turn over in my. stomach a bit watching his eyes - they were weird, narrow, drugged looking.

Was too young to watch this when it first came out, enjoying it now. Some great character actors

Lansing ...more believable

Amen. Especially season 1.

Ditto. My favorite TV series ever.

It exists on DVD, on some official site, but whoever has it there wants to rape you for the amount he charges. I would also buy it for a proper price.

But now of course we can watch it on youtube completely! Great. Schadenfreude to that selfish guy who kept it so exclusively for so long.

I bought the whole series on DVD from some company in China. Don't remember the exact price, but it was *very* reasonable.

You can purchase DVD set on ebay. Have it and will probably go for the deluxe set because should have the uncut version. The set I currently have has scenes not included in the youtube set.

@Matrox One i dont think he was wrong, if u would've looked at the age of his comment, it was 6 years ago, or, 5 years if u look at the age of your comment which is a year old now. Anyway, they might not have released the set until a year or 2 after he posted the comment, so he isnt "wrong" like u say he is....

@Siobha'n C...IMHO, they were engaged in 'pure acting', not the nonsense, PC we have now. Thanks.

Movies today are trash. I haven't been to a movie theater since 1997.

Many veterans of WW2 like my father were alive then. So they remembered and the shows were more authentic.

That show was a MUST SEE every week for my buddies and i!

Those words you spoke/texted, were right outta my mouth !

KetchMusic “ Pp!&2€@

Damn straight man great show

That's exacty what I thought. The music took me back.

Dave C I use to love how Savage would always argue with Crowe.

Thanks I was only allowed to watch Combat as a Kid but I guess I saved the best for last Two of my dads buddies were B-17 Crews and they'd Talk but only once I heard these stories from who were there until they had the mustangs they didn't even think they would live thru the War both were recovering alcoholics Mr Gosnel and Mr Whitty whose last Job was Service Manager of WEstminster Marland State Police Barracks Auto Maintence Dept He got my Dad a job

America is no longer a free country. It is a terrorist state run by perverts, criminals, liars and thieves. America has completely broken faith with its war dead. America is nothing but a corrupt lie where public office is just a another means of self-enrichment at any cost.

The one episode in the first Star Trek Robert Lansing and Terry Garr were back in the 60s and Star Trek shows of the enterprise went back in time and then he was paid Gary seven they were gonna take the showing and run it off on its own but somehow it didn’t get through and it would’ve been at arn series

I never remembered that, in my USAF ROTC - Detachment 105, University of Colorado/Bouldet.

That's for sure!

A tragic loss of men and a machine.

He landed way short of the runway, I hate to say it but the pilot was to old.

Reports are all in. Sadly, engine loss on take off and the pilot tried to return to the runway and didn’t make it. Lost 7 of 13 aboard. Pilot error and bad maintenance.

And one of those hacks, President Trump, is now our countries leader. How's that, for justice !

I'm seeing a ton of footage taken from the 1947 film!!

@@LazlosPlane You can even hear variations on Gregory Peck's dialog at places in the film.

Beirne Lay, Jr, who wrote the script for the movie, wrote this TV episode screenplay.

Gene Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek, flew 89 missions as a B17 pilot

I LOVE General Savage!

The AOPA guidelines on high-altitude flying require that pilots must go on supplemental oxygen if they are flying at altitudes of 12,500 feet or higher for more than 30 minutes, so I would imagine that it isn't that unsafe to wait until 10,000 feet before going on oxygen. Having only a limited supply of oxygen, I'm sure that the aircrew would not want to start using oxygen until it was really needed. I've done hikes and rock climbing at altitudes of 8,000 to 9,000 feet without being on oxygen, although I was in superb physical shape at the time and had become acclimated to being at higher altitudes.

Cool. Another "Arm Chair Hero".

I remember watching 'Combat' a LOT. But I only vaguely remember THIS show. Maybe it aired past my bedtime....LOL. Or my father was probably in charge of the TV , and watching something else. I'm determined to watch all of the episodes now though.

When the 8th air force started operations out of England, I think the BF-109s & FW 190s were sporting 7.92 mm MG 17 cowl guns. It wasn't until at least 1943 when the BF-109G6 models came with the 13 mm MG 13 cowl guns that you had larger caliber machines guns on the planes. I think the FW-190A7 version that came out in November of 1943 upgraded its cowl guns to 13 mm MG 13s.

Each also had a pair of 7.92 mm [ 30 caliber ] machine guns mounted over the engines, though.

He's the only actor I have a folder for in my computer. He was also in my favorite Star Trek episode:"Assignment Earth" Such strong intention in his performances! He was another victim of cigarette smoking.

He did a great deal of theater in New York,and had excellent reviews. That was his first love.

I watched a lot of it as a kid, but I never saw any of season 1.

Mark Espinola liberals and ghetto mentality ruining America.

I second that. We say shit like that and we're referred to racist grandpas. I like to see every smart ass millennial be drafted and have to fly over German flak and come back to an ass chewing by general Savage. See if they run that smart mouth then.....if the German flak didn't take them out first.

@@wrotenwasp easy there General Custer, calm down before you hurt yourself

Maria Kelly yea that’s where your wrong it’s you liberal whiners and metro sexual weirdos fault now you know, try to fix before it all caves in. Glad to set your warped warm infested minds straight.

Piers Bridges I loved the little S3A's stationed at NAS North Island. Loved to hear them turning up early in the morning . . .WwwooouaaaaooOOOOOwistling ! I worked across the base near the sea plane hangers on two classic C130A's. Our combat tested maintenance Chief and CO affectionaltely described them as, "Approximately 1.3 million individual used parts vibrating in a barely calibratable formation." We loved the old girls but they only tolerated us . . . Our Master chief and leading CWO spent a lot of time teaching young officers and enlisted's how to scrounge for parts in the bone yards. Once they came back asking if we could haul back an old WW2 bomber because someone was trying to get rid of enough parts, they claimed, to build two or three ! They say the Skipper made a few phone calls, but had to say no . . . That was in the early 1970's.

I beg your pardon, but are you refering to the Viking?

I worked on the OR 89 FLIR that was on the S3a at TI in Dallas in the early 80's.

At least you didn't pop a salute with a wrench to the forehead . It would've been a little bit longer before you were done .

They aren't supposed to fly missions. The reason why is that most generals are in positions where they know very sensitive information that if compromised could cause great damage and or loss of life. The enemy at the very least would believe they knew such information and wouldn't stop interrogating until they believed they had everything. The communists developed a method using sensory deprivation in the sensory deprivation tanks and drugs that was so amazingly effective that not only could they get everything a person knew but they could actually program them and convert them into spies for their side, or for that matter turn them into entirely different people that believe they are that different person with completely different background etc.. Torture by comparison could never be trusted. We're they giving up real info? Or were they just spouting info they think will make the pain stop.

VietVet 1970 ...excellent Karma...

@@jamesm.taylor6928 curtis lemay was the the lead pilot of his missions, even as a general.. He was only ordered to stop flying after being debriefed about the Manhattan project

PatrolOfficer161 .

Zippo, and it never gets old. Know what is old? Stupid tic toks and rtarded npc videos and the like.

Mazel tov!

I believe they also put on "chins"; a forward twin 50cal mounted under the front cockpit which gave them extra help up front. And the "stinger" in the tail was their biggest fear so the Krauts looked to take it out first. But overall, the Kraut fighters had a huge advantage and their wasn't really much defense against them until the fighter escort joined the fray.

i never knew that. a fact they left out of the history books.

paul pisano Sorry it's taken me so long to reply. Sadly, A LOT has been left out of our history books...and nobody cares.

pennyformethoughts I Do ! Current event and dayly news reporting isn't being treated the way it used to be either, for crying out loud. I'm fed up with this PC shit from All but a few politicians and groups of progressive socialist Liberals and the like. It's a pet peeve with me the way these anti-American 'Americans' are re-writing the fact to suit their own purposes and/or completely ignoring the truth.

My uncle was a ball turret gunner in the 44th Bomb Group ( B-24's) and on particular mission a P-47 was shadowing his formation. The group leader tried several times to raise the the fighter by radio, but the P-47 pilot refused to acknowledge. My uncle was then ordered to shoot the Thunderbolt down, which he did. He was credited officially with a "kill".

How do you capture a B-17?

Survived her personal demons and a broken neck, only to be taken out by pneumonia.

That's nice.

My dad flew B-24s out of Italy in 1944. He had great respect for the FW-190. He also said the ME-262 was basically unstoppable. Thankfully, they didn't see too many.

I believe that he was in the reserves for many years and may have attained the rank after the war.

If you like this series you might like the book, if you can find it, Flying Fortress by Martin Caidin.

+Will Drucker I thought that was Judy Carne! Didn't realize she did regular acting before laugh in.

LOL I was thinking the same thing when I saw the laugh-in chick and gunsmoke dude...