Oh my! From absolute comedy - and good comedy at that - to tragedy and drama. A marvelous episode showing some of the factors not normally emphasized in war movies.
You are probably right. THE MOVIE TWELVE O'CLOCK HIGH, starring Gregory Peck, had some real footage. For the most part it was inferior and actually demonstrated P 47 American fighters as enemy aircraft. LOL! Truth is the TV show had some rare, little seen REAL air combat film.The series is authentic in every way.
@@DBEdwards absolutely love this show and it was a shame that they got rid of Lansing after the first season. I can stand watching the second and third season but prefer the first season
Just so those that don't know understand that 90% or more of the B17 film is real from ww2 army air corp films taken for the public to see us fighting the war on newsreels at the movies in America. They had no computers to organize these clips so it had to be hand chosen and spliced into the new films taken for television. I's no wonder we see bloopers all over such as a left turn when they said 90" right turn etc. They only had one or two 17s for close ups and rarely flew them for the show. Even with the bloopers I think they did a great job, We are spoiled today with the tools Hollywood has at their disposal. The honor is in watching real footage of the soldiers who gave their lives in a lot of this footage. Real people going up in those bombers at subzero temperatures getting frostbite and being shot at and knowing they're about to die every time they go. I salute all of them all.
Robert Lansing and Dana Wynter starred in an ABC-TV series called "THE MAN WHO NEVER WAS" in Fall 1966,which was filmed on location in Europe. the series was short lived,but a nice drama,that was well made! years later,Robert Lansing made appearances as "Control" on CBS"s "THE EQUALIZER" in 1985
What a great show and how nice of you to recall it. I was eleven then and still recall the show being very memorable. Shame it only ran for a season. Robert Lansing was one of a kind. Tough. Real. Admirable. No one like him today.
What a great T.V. series this must have been... So many great actors / actress's got their starts in T.V. series like these... Bruce Dern, Lew Gallo, Robert Lansing, several others.... These made for T.V. shows were excellent ways for people to get an idea of what WW2 was actually like....
Quite frankly, Paul Burke, Robert Lansing's replacement in season two and three, never did it for me. Lansing was tough and real and dimensional. The first season is the series I love and revere. Always will. Fantastic!
DB Ewards! You can add me to that list when Robert Lansing left, I sent a personal letter of complaint to the Studio; Paul Burke could never replace the image of General Frank Savage.
@@robertsmoot7640 A lot of people were very upset when Paul Burke replaced Robert Lansing on Twelve O'Clock High. As a matter of fact, Paul Burke said that not only did he get hate mail from Robert Lansing's fans (which I'm sure he expected), he got hate mail from his own fans!
Every time I watch this episode and it gets to the scene where Catherine chooses the house over Frank, I always yell at the screen, "WTF is the matter with you? The hell with the house, go with Frank!" I tell you, some women have their priorities all mixed up.
The British officer always love their gloves. I will say one thing for the British military they are big on ceremonies and all that stuff; I have watched hours and hours of their ceremonies on videos
ABC and Fox and the sponsors likely very much involved in the decision too...Ratings for season one weren't good but ABC and the investors wanted to save it regardless, thus the second season.
The look on Savage's face at 36:30 as he discovers that Catherine is taken, is like, "Just a minute, I thought m' Lady was mine!" But I don't quite get the ending. If Catherine truly loves Frank, and she knows the house is being torn down so she can't stay there in any case, why not agree to continue with him? Why does she instead decide to go with Derrick?
Lady Catherine decided to use the General to keep the house never believing he would follow through on the plan to tear it down. In her world it would be an arrangement of convenience.
Interestingly, in this episode, General Savage's driver is a corporal. In the movie, General Savage states that, due to his rank, he should have a sergeant to drive him around.
One of the most heartbreaking episodes in the series. Leaving aside the manners of the heart for a moment, how do you rebuild a house with that sort of style. General Savage sure makes some heartless decisions in the name of war sometimes.
Actually, the earlier Dana Wynter episode (E10 - The Interlude) is hands down the most heartbreaking episode in this series IMHO. Indeed, it even leaves Frank Savage with tears streaming down his face.
That grand house is "perilously unsafe".....you oughta see what I'm livin' in...... P.S. The fellow playing 'Derek' .- I don't think I've ever liked him in anything he played in.
17:21 "Everybody turn RIGHT." And which way do they turn? LEFT. LOL!! I also really like that guy playing Savage's co-pilot, Major Joe Cobb, actor Lew Gallo. Was in a number of early episodes, but got the heave ho at the end of Season 1. Shame too.
In the 12 o clock high movie Major Joe Cobb was killed by flak in the only combat scene in the movie. Of course there was 15 years between the movie and the TV show.
Brit Officer: "YEs you may tear down this house but this is where I get my spankings and NO Brit officer is required, BY LAW, to go without his spankings
Dana Wynter appeared in Twelve O'clock High Season 1 - episode 10 as a 'love interest' of General Savage. Why would she 'Guest Star' again in the same season as a different person? She appeared in the 'Interlude' episode as a British Lt. and General Savage shared a train carriage with her - while they were on their way to Scotland. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Ken Knotts The actors Bruce Dern and Tome Skerrit each played 5 different Army Air Corps characters in the series. They are only two examples. This was done often in early television. I think it was better accepted in those days because people were more appreciative of the story as realism and not so hung up on the graphic realism that we get today. Before the 1980’s real people had to perform real stunts. Now we get imagined stunts and characters survive.
Great episode, but that scene was pretty inane if you ask me. I get that you like it as a woman, but it makes no sense. Not only can't he handle a thin waif of a woman and an old lady with a broom, but he hollers like a baby for his corporal to come rescue him.
@Maria Kelly I don't mind a bit of comedy for levity either. But good comedy takes the funny things in life and exaggerates them somewhat, say like what Seinfeld &co. do to real-life idiosyncrasies. However, for me, if the underlying situation is utterly not believable, the comedy fails to work, especially if it is in the context of a serious show. To me, nobody will accept that a weak society lady and an old housekeeper with a broom will render General Savage helpless, to the point where he screams for his aide to come rescue him.
I hate to say it, but I prefer the other Dana Wynter episode. They weren't fighting about landing strips. They were dealing with life and death outside war.
Synopsis ; General Savage recuperates in a fine English Lady's house, starts banging her , smokes all her cigarettes and has her house torn down when he leaves..thats a REAL man
@Maria Kelly How do you arrive at such certainty. General Savage was an honourable gentleman and this show was from the early 60s before the sexual revolution. Besides, this woman was very insecure.
@Maria Kelly Her insecurity would suggest that she was shy and General Savage would not have taken advantage of an insecure woman. Stop smashing icons.
Season one was the best. When QM dropped Robert Lansing for Paul Burke the series changed. Seasons 2 &3 are not nearly as believable. Lansing's portrayal was more like that of the movie
Well in the film Gen Savage had a nervous breakdown and could command his wing anymore...which was still early in the war. The Lt Col that was the exec, which Peck busted and Lansing dressed down, took his place in Piccadilly Lilly that day...which implies that officer was going to be wing cmdr after the film ended. In the series, they instead killed Savage and Burke's character reluctantly took over. It is not inconsistent with the film...but changing leads was not popular with audiences.
And Nothing better did come out of it all. Only a temporary respite from war. The world today laughs and spits in the faces of all those men and women who struggled so hard for our freedom. And also it seems to me that the Lady in this episode would be rich enough to just build another home elsewhere, and or the USAAF could have funded such another build.
It’s so accurate about the life of a bomber crew but why did they not look at photos of women in the 1940s and change the 60s hairstyles and clothes?Some of the girls look like they just come from a shopping trip to Carnaby street.Wartime conditions were. Make do and mend!
@Maria Kelly You alluded that she should have waited for Savage's death in a few more episodes, so I joked that the way they killed him off so suddenly and the manner in which he disappears, I'm not sure if she could prove his death.
@Maria Kelly Sorry, sometimes I respond so quickly while doing work that I misspeak. Just replace the opening word "You" in my previous comment with "Jay M". In any case, I simply meant to respond to your question, "Who's dead in this episode?" by noting that I was referring to the death in a later episode, not this one. We just went around each other in circles. (P.S. I generally found your comments on the series enjoyable and sensible.)
I know they wanted to take her house down because they wanted it for the airforce runaway. I'm not sure why the girl never leaves her house because for what reasons? They never said what was the reasons why she never leaves her house for many years and she fall in love with that pilot for some reason
@@joechiodi5529 Please stop the "the English aren't grateful enough for everything the US did for them during WW2" line. Yes, if the US hadn't of came into the war England would be screwed (the whole planet would have been screwed). However, for 18 months England was the ONLY country in Europe fighting the Nazis. They went through hell. During the Blitz, England was bombed every night for months. And yes, Roosevelt was able to get them supplies with the Lend-lease program. But give them credit for hanging on until we were able to "save their asses."
@josephrochefort9989 I agree with your point , 100% . I was referring to the acting , the fake accents , terrible script etc . Out of nowhere she starts falling for Savage , it was poorly written .
soft caps were not worn by pilots on war missions above twenty thousand feet altitude. and american bombers flew at tenty five thousand feet or higher because the focke-wulf one ninety fighter's performance fell off at twenty thousand feet. all air crew wore the A two leather flying helmet and googles.
Well the film based it on that, and it was implying that the first 10 missions then some more when things got bad later on, and the film is a basis for reality of a group in the 8th airforce, Savage as a character is based on a real man Colonel Frank A. Armstrong of the 306th as well as some others, a few generals presumably
In the 1949 movie (and novel) Gen Savage was a staff cmdr at Pinetree over the 4 wings. His friend, a Col, couldn't do the job, had major losses, and got relieved and reassigned to Pinetree. The Lt Gen over Savage ordered him to fix the problems in the wing and take a Col's duty. Savage agreed. Watch the movie, then rewatch S1.
I'd forgotten how much humor got worked into these episodes..thanks for the loads.
Dana Wynter! Too beautiful for words.
Oh my! From absolute comedy - and good comedy at that - to tragedy and drama. A marvelous episode showing some of the factors not normally emphasized in war movies.
Dana Wynter appeared in another episode (and died). Pleased to see her back as she was gorgeous...
I'm watching this episode right now. You know what they say in Bond movies. You only live twice.
I liked her very much in SINK THE BISMARK you can watch the movie still on UA-cam.
Absolutely!!!!
I agree , Dana is a very beautiful woman.I began to tear up in the othe episode.
@@rogerlynch5279 yes and Kenneth Moore !
thank you so much for posting these. My husband and I are really enjoying
Dana Wynter was stunning and an excellent actress.
Great series and a fitting tribute to the Mighty Eighth.
Dana Wynter was a total stunner and a lovely actress; but how could Brig Gen Savage NOT want to marry her???
He was willing to resign his commission for her
Awesome real footage. No other show or movie had anything close.
You are probably right. THE MOVIE TWELVE O'CLOCK HIGH, starring Gregory Peck, had some real footage. For the most part it was inferior and actually demonstrated P 47 American fighters as enemy aircraft. LOL! Truth is the TV show had some rare, little seen REAL air combat film.The series is authentic in every way.
@@DBEdwards absolutely love this show and it was a shame that they got rid of Lansing after the first season. I can stand watching the second and third season but prefer the first season
Just so those that don't know understand that 90% or more of the B17 film is real from ww2 army air corp films taken for the public to see us fighting the war on newsreels at the movies in America. They had no computers to organize these clips so it had to be hand chosen and spliced into the new films taken for television. I's no wonder we see bloopers all over such as a left turn when they said 90" right turn etc. They only had one or two 17s for close ups and rarely flew them for the show. Even with the bloopers I think they did a great job, We are spoiled today with the tools Hollywood has at their disposal. The honor is in watching real footage of the soldiers who gave their lives in a lot of this footage. Real people going up in those bombers at subzero temperatures getting frostbite and being shot at and knowing they're about to die every time they go. I salute all of them all.
A testament to the hard work and dedication it takes to produce something worth watching Richard.
Speaking of sub-zero, my Dad many yrs ago pointed out the waist gunners wore heated flight suits to ward off the bitter cold.
Also from captured German films ,
Wonderful show!
Robert Lansing and Dana Wynter starred in an ABC-TV series called "THE MAN WHO NEVER WAS" in Fall 1966,which was filmed on location in Europe. the series was short lived,but a nice drama,that was well made! years later,Robert Lansing made appearances
as "Control" on CBS"s "THE EQUALIZER" in 1985
What a great show and how nice of you to recall it. I was eleven then and still recall the show being very memorable. Shame it only ran for a season. Robert Lansing was one of a kind. Tough. Real. Admirable. No one like him today.
I was hoping he would get a pilot called Assignment Earth from his Star Trek performance as Gary Seven along with Terri Garr as his side-kick!
Robert Lansing made this show and it was a shame getting rid of him for Burke.
I missed those episodes; I'll look for them now that I know of them.
Robert Lansing, what an honorable actor that portrays an American the way an American should be portrayed.
Mazel tov!
He was born for the role of General Frank Savage.
And Dana Wynter a true lady in the English tradition.
Sad ending for a love story that never got off the ground.
Gregory Peck and Robert Lasing portrayed the actual group commander of the 306th BG * 3 918th BG .Twelve O'clock High ,head on and from above
What a great T.V. series this must have been... So many great actors / actress's got their starts in T.V. series like these... Bruce Dern, Lew Gallo, Robert Lansing, several others.... These made for T.V. shows were excellent ways for people to get an idea of what WW2 was actually like....
Quite frankly, Paul Burke, Robert Lansing's replacement in season two and three, never did it for me. Lansing was tough and real and dimensional. The first season is the series I love and revere. Always will. Fantastic!
DB Ewards! You can add me to that list when Robert Lansing left, I sent a personal letter of complaint to the Studio; Paul Burke could never replace the image of General Frank Savage.
@@robertsmoot7640 A lot of people were very upset when Paul Burke replaced Robert Lansing on Twelve O'Clock High. As a matter of fact, Paul Burke said that not only did he get hate mail from Robert Lansing's fans (which I'm sure he expected), he got hate mail from his own fans!
DB Edwards wasn’t as good once Lansing left.
@@robertsmoot7640 my sister and i did the same for the sponsor at the time, Haggar Slacks.
Burke was great in the Leper Colony episode.
He wasn't a tough hardened but human commander as Lansing portrayed.
But I suppose War changes things.
Every time I watch this episode and it gets to the scene where Catherine chooses the house over Frank, I always yell at the screen, "WTF is the matter with you? The hell with the house, go with Frank!" I tell you, some women have their priorities all mixed up.
I'm the same as you.
@Carol Young Say it ain't so!
Another very interesting episode.
1964 - smoking & drinking at ease . wow , times have changed !!!
YEA. WE LIVE IN A FASCIST AMERICA.
It's called FREEDOM ???
Robert Lansing was a heavy smoker in real life, he died from lung cancer.
It was WW2...smoking was incredibly common.
The British officer always love their gloves. I will say one thing for the British military they are big on ceremonies and all that stuff; I have watched hours and hours of their ceremonies on videos
Agreed
Pilot to crew, we are too low and out of fuel..Everyone make a face!
Another good story.
No disrespect at all to Paul Burke, but replacing Robert Lansing was a BIG MISTAKE of Quinn Martin.
Lansing did not needed replaced but burke was the right replacement.
ABC and Fox and the sponsors likely very much involved in the decision too...Ratings for season one weren't good but ABC and the investors wanted to save it regardless, thus the second season.
I agree. Something is missing. I will not watch atb movie without lansing. He brought so much to the production. Shame on you Mr. Martin
They admitted years later that it was a mistake. In fact Lansing should have done the movie
What none of you seem to realize is Robert Lansing was dying of cancer and that is why he was replaced at his own request
The look on Savage's face at 36:30 as he discovers that Catherine is taken, is like, "Just a minute, I thought m' Lady was mine!" But I don't quite get the ending. If Catherine truly loves Frank, and she knows the house is being torn down so she can't stay there in any case, why not agree to continue with him? Why does she instead decide to go with Derrick?
Because she was a lunatic.
Lady Catherine decided to use the General to keep the house never believing he would follow through on the plan to tear it down. In her world it would be an arrangement of convenience.
Or she felt betrayed by General Savage, angry, and hurt, and could not feel close to him again.
Great video!
'There is nothing to be afraid of' . She put her guard down.
Interestingly, in this episode, General Savage's driver is a corporal. In the movie, General Savage states that, due to his rank, he should have a sergeant to drive him around.
I noticed that, too.
One of the chief requirements for falling in love with General Savage is that you have to really dislike him first.😉
I liked Lew Gallo ( Major Cobb ). He wasn’t in many movies or tv but he should have been . Solid actor
Lew Gallo had a beautiful smile.
A good performer, found on a lot of Fox shows at the time...
It's WAR!! but we have time to make a "scroll"
How fantastic General Savage shows the realty of war in this episode! Excellent.
Binge watching thru a hurricane. Perfect evening.
One of the most heartbreaking episodes in the series. Leaving aside the manners of the heart for a moment, how do you rebuild a house with that sort of style. General Savage sure makes some heartless decisions in the name of war sometimes.
Actually, the earlier Dana Wynter episode (E10 - The Interlude) is hands down the most heartbreaking episode in this series IMHO. Indeed, it even leaves Frank Savage with tears streaming down his face.
It's War my friend,
COLD BLOOD only.
Feelings have no place if you wish to win otherwise don't go to war.
There is no price that can be set on the lives of 9 Airman.
Savage did not do it.The war did.Houses ain’t worth lifes.
@@donlove3741😢😢
That grand house is "perilously unsafe".....you oughta see what I'm livin' in...... P.S. The fellow playing 'Derek' .- I don't think I've ever liked him in anything he played in.
He usually plays heavies.
In my much younger days, I had a huge crush on Dana Wynter, loved that Woman.
Tell me about it. GORGEOUS!
Robert Smoot British pulchritude!
17:21 "Everybody turn RIGHT." And which way do they turn? LEFT. LOL!! I also really like that guy playing Savage's co-pilot, Major Joe Cobb, actor Lew Gallo. Was in a number of early episodes, but got the heave ho at the end of Season 1. Shame too.
In the 12 o clock high movie Major Joe Cobb was killed by flak in the only combat scene in the movie. Of course there was 15 years between the movie and the TV show.
He went back to California to make wine
@Maria Kelly sure !
@Maria Kelly EJ GALLO WINES
Brit Officer: "YEs you may tear down this house but this is where I get my spankings and NO Brit officer is required, BY LAW, to go without his spankings
"Read you five by five." That's the real deal.
There is a lot of grassland around the house. He could have easily landed on the soft grass.
Isn't this the Scottish woman who died in Episode 10?
Great, payback on the lady's part. Mush, bang, right in the eye. I busted a gut laughing on that. I bet my downstairs neighbors heard that laugh.
Dana Wynter appeared in Twelve O'clock High Season 1 - episode 10 as a 'love interest' of General Savage. Why would she 'Guest Star' again in the same season as a different person? She appeared in the 'Interlude' episode as a British Lt. and General Savage shared a train carriage with her - while they were on their way to Scotland. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Yes, that's her. Obviously Robert Lansing and Dana Winter had chemistry.
It actually happens quite often that the same actor appears several times in a series, each time in a different role.
Ken Knotts The actors Bruce Dern and Tome Skerrit each played 5 different Army Air Corps characters in the series. They are only two examples. This was done often in early television. I think it was better accepted in those days because people were more appreciative of the story as realism and not so hung up on the graphic realism that we get today. Before the 1980’s real people had to perform real stunts. Now we get imagined stunts and characters survive.
@@lsmart Yes. This show is no exception to that. Several actors and actresses have made multiple appearances in different roles.
@@lsmart Yes. This show is no exception to that. Several actors and actresses have made multiple appearances in different roles.
6:20 I loved watching Frank getting his ass kicked by two women. lol!
Great episode, but that scene was pretty inane if you ask me. I get that you like it as a woman, but it makes no sense. Not only can't he handle a thin waif of a woman and an old lady with a broom, but he hollers like a baby for his corporal to come rescue him.
@Maria Kelly I don't mind a bit of comedy for levity either. But good comedy takes the funny things in life and exaggerates them somewhat, say like what Seinfeld &co. do to real-life idiosyncrasies. However, for me, if the underlying situation is utterly not believable, the comedy fails to work, especially if it is in the context of a serious show. To me, nobody will accept that a weak society lady and an old housekeeper with a broom will render General Savage helpless, to the point where he screams for his aide to come rescue him.
Love 💕 all season one.
Savage shoulda been tapping that stuff!!!!!!!!!
I think he did 31.20
You got to admit he came close. Lol.
@@shermankelly9062 What? Miss the target? Guess he had to go on another mission
wait, they didn't consider the house when the built the runway??
I hate to say it, but I prefer the other Dana Wynter episode. They weren't fighting about landing strips. They were dealing with life and death outside war.
AN OLD MANSION WHEN SOME PEOPLE ARE LOSING THERE HOMES AND LIVES EVERYDAY...HMMN
Synopsis ; General Savage recuperates in a fine English Lady's house, starts banging her , smokes all her cigarettes and has her house torn down when he leaves..thats a REAL man
He didn't bang her.
@Maria Kelly How do you arrive at such certainty. General Savage was an honourable gentleman and this show was from the early 60s before the sexual revolution. Besides, this woman was very insecure.
@Maria Kelly Her insecurity would suggest that she was shy and General Savage would not have taken advantage of an insecure woman. Stop smashing icons.
Keep this. Videos on UA-cam
Beauty and the Beast. Somehow, Colonel Savage / Alan Lansing always reminded me a bit of The Beast from Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" (1991).
I would have left her and the house intact and detoured the landing approach...
In truth, they would have never allowed the house to be torn down, ever
Quite an American looking English country house I've ever seen.
There is no way the geography around that place is either English of suitable for a run way
They do cry and carry on so....
The QM style.
Nothing is permanent.
the skid mark in your shorts is
Your a sick pup
Not even you.
A point in this episode seems clear enough... Savage doesn't much like mush... unless it's served by a beautiful woman... then maybe for awhile.....
The question is who does the most damage to the things you are fighting to preserve. Your enemies or your allies?
This is when scrits were very good
that yank he has better to face the whole of Luftwaffe than the lady the maid and their Broom upon the hill house
They could've and should've moved the runway. The house was there first... 400 years before.
Season one was the best. When QM dropped Robert Lansing for Paul Burke the series changed. Seasons 2 &3 are not nearly as believable. Lansing's portrayal was more like that of the movie
Well in the film Gen Savage had a nervous breakdown and could command his wing anymore...which was still early in the war.
The Lt Col that was the exec, which Peck busted and Lansing dressed down, took his place in Piccadilly Lilly that day...which implies that officer was going to be wing cmdr after the film ended.
In the series, they instead killed Savage and Burke's character reluctantly took over.
It is not inconsistent with the film...but changing leads was not popular with audiences.
And Nothing better did come out of it all. Only a temporary respite from war. The world today laughs and spits in the faces of all those men and women who struggled so hard for our freedom. And also it seems to me that the Lady in this episode would be rich enough to just build another home elsewhere, and or the USAAF could have funded such another build.
It’s so accurate about the life of a bomber crew but why did they not look at photos of women in the 1940s and change the 60s hairstyles and clothes?Some of the girls look like they just come from a shopping trip to Carnaby street.Wartime conditions were. Make do and mend!
I had watched all the series and I guess one series that was never played a Series that would say wars of all wars that comes to an end.
I don't understand all the Burke hate. I actually liked him a little better
Why wasnt General Savage sent to the hospital ?
Savage always gave a almost vertical salute from the center of his forehead.
Sooo.
That kinda annoyed me a little
She could have married him and got his pension and death benefits in only a few more episodes!
Ha ha
Not sure. The death was so secretive, I don't know if she'd be able to locate the insurance papers and death certificate.
@Maria Kelly You alluded that she should have waited for Savage's death in a few more episodes, so I joked that the way they killed him off so suddenly and the manner in which he disappears, I'm not sure if she could prove his death.
@Maria Kelly Sorry, sometimes I respond so quickly while doing work that I misspeak. Just replace the opening word "You" in my previous comment with "Jay M". In any case, I simply meant to respond to your question, "Who's dead in this episode?" by noting that I was referring to the death in a later episode, not this one. We just went around each other in circles. (P.S. I generally found your comments on the series enjoyable and sensible.)
23:21 Star Trek musical interlude.
I know they wanted to take her house down because they wanted it for the airforce runaway. I'm not sure why the girl never leaves her house because for what reasons? They never said what was the reasons why she never leaves her house for many years and she fall in love with that pilot for some reason
47:30 B17 crashes into house killing Catherine and her lady friend. Demolition not necessary.
Major Cobb is dead, I don't like that they extended that character post death in the film
I remember a old saying about the Americans over in England. They are over paid, over sexed, and over here.
Probably true
Yeah and if we never came England would have been devastated by the 3rd Reich.
@@joechiodi5529 Please stop that.
@@mariakelly5 stop what, the truth??
@@joechiodi5529 Please stop the "the English aren't grateful enough for everything the US did for them during WW2" line.
Yes, if the US hadn't of came into the war England would be screwed (the whole planet would have been screwed). However, for 18 months England was the ONLY country in Europe fighting the Nazis. They went through hell. During the Blitz, England was bombed every night for months. And yes, Roosevelt was able to get them supplies with the Lend-lease program. But give them credit for hanging on until we were able to "save their asses."
1961
Ooooo . . . snakey snake of a Group Captain. Make the girl think that you're trying to help her but in reality working to torpedo her.
36:54 Bust to the left...Prince Charles?
not air force until 1947 was air corps
They do overlook that occasionally.
Dana was smoking hot!
I don't care if he was in military. They aren't taking over the house.
WRONG!
TIME For A CIGARETTE GENERAL SAVAGE
SMITH!
How arrogant of the General to demand that an old house just be knocked down. Strikes of “ Ugly Americanism”.
America went and fought for our allies and this is the attitude we get from them . How ungrateful
They built the airbase bad spot. It was a war.
Get that rotter a drink and a smoke! That'll get that bloke up! What, what!!
Yeah and smoke too. I think I could catch lung cancer just from watching....
It sure killed Lansing. Not funny at all.
I didn't mean it as a joke as fat as Lansing... Just commenting on the popularity of smoking back then.
Highly recommended Chap.
There sloppy Salutes..n a General flying an aircraft..yea right
Oh Frank! your ..um..frank is so...uhh. frank
Thhhanks.....Bob
Another female character during WW2 wearing 1960s clothes & hairstyle. Wasn't there any research done ?
Archbury? Is that supposed to be an English village situated in what is typical American countryside. Spared no expense on this production I see. 🤣
@18:48 min, Austin 7
I noticed while at RAF Lakenheth, they had some really kool cars. Loved working on them!
B24 at 17:50.
Good eye man
60's hair 60's women's hat
Very short hair for a English woman in the 40's.
This episode is ridiculous
@josephrochefort9989 I agree with your point , 100% . I was referring to the acting , the fake accents , terrible script etc . Out of nowhere she starts falling for Savage , it was poorly written .
I still tjink Americans today are great. Stress and taxes! And no pateralistic mangement
"Something better will come" LOL like Donald trump
soft caps were not worn by pilots on war missions above twenty thousand feet altitude. and american bombers flew at tenty five thousand feet or higher because the focke-wulf one ninety fighter's performance fell off at twenty thousand feet. all air crew wore the A two leather flying helmet and googles.
😘👍😂😂😂😂😂🏵
YEssir..I have a luppy dress because I have no breasts
i dont think a brig gen would fly combat missioms
It's in the script.
Well the film based it on that, and it was implying that the first 10 missions then some more when things got bad later on, and the film is a basis for reality of a group in the 8th airforce, Savage as a character is based on a real man Colonel Frank A. Armstrong of the 306th as well as some others, a few generals presumably
In the 1949 movie (and novel) Gen Savage was a staff cmdr at Pinetree over the 4 wings. His friend, a Col, couldn't do the job, had major losses, and got relieved and reassigned to Pinetree. The Lt Gen over Savage ordered him to fix the problems in the wing and take a Col's duty. Savage agreed.
Watch the movie, then rewatch S1.
There is no limit to the extent of human self-delusion, whether with individuals or nations.