𝘼𝙥𝙥𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙖𝙩 𝙇𝙞𝙚𝙜𝙚✈️🔴⚪🔵 A pilot major assigned elsewhere when his crew was killed in combat, suffers a guilt complex and becomes reckless with his missions and the lives of his subordinates. A WWII bomb group commander must fill the shoes of his predecessor and get the performance rating up to snuff. He struggles with his own men, until he is able to develop pride in the group and win the men over, but at a cost to him. This series chronicled the adventures, in the air and on the ground, of the men of the 918th Bombardment Group of the U.S. Eighth Air Force. First commanded by irascible General Frank Savage, and later by Colonel Joe Gallagher, the son of a Pentagon General. The group is stationed in England, and flies long-range bombing missions into German held Europe.
Stars Frank Overton, Paul Burke, Chris Robinson And Robert Lansing.
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Some Trivia:
01: While trying to get sponsors for this series, the producers approached the Volkswagen executives and showed them the pilot show which featured actual bombing footage from the war. During the film, one of the executives recognized the plant that was being bombed as the Volkswagen plant which had made cars for the German Army at the time. He commented, "There goes our plant", and the executives then and there decided not to sponsor the show.
02: The meaning of this series' title "12 O'Clock High" is that of an example of a pilot's enemy position call. Allied pilots during World War II would vocally call-out the positions of enemy airplanes by referring to their bearings via the use of a pretend face of a clock. As such, in this case, "12 o'clock" meant the enemy was directly ahead, whereas "6 o'clock" would mean directly behind. "High" or "low" referred to whether the enemy was above or below the airplane respectively. "Even" meant that the enemy was level with the pilot's plane.
03: While most of the airborne footage in the series was wartime combat footage, much of it from the documentary "Memphis Belle" directed by William Wyler, the former DB-17P 44-83584 (N3713G) at Edward T. Maloney's Air Museum at Ontario, California, was brought the short distance to the former Cal-Aero Field at Chino where the 918th Bomb Group flightline sets were and used for taxiing, crew loading and unloading sequences, and as a backdrop for other filming.
04: Based on the real-life 306th Bomb Group. The fictional 918th was devised by taking 306 and multiplying by three. The fictional name of the base was Archbury, based on the real-life Alconbury, the wartime home of the 306th Bomb Group.
05: The character of Major Harvey Stovall (played by Frank Overton) was based on a real-life person, Colonel William Howard "Hank" Stovall. He was a World War I ace fighter pilot who returned to active duty for World War II and was the Assistant Chief of Staff for Personnel for the 8th Air Force.
Some Goofs:
01: Throughout the series, actors regularly smoked king-sized filter cigarettes, which didn't exist in WWII.
02: WWII B-17 crews uniform with 50-star USA flags.
03: In many scenes through the series crew members are shown smoking on or near aircraft. Smoking was never allowed anywhere near aircraft or ammo by the Army Air Corps since day one. It was especially prohibited in the days when aviation fuel was 100 octane gasoline which was then used by prop-driven aircraft like the B-17.