12 O'Clock High · SEASON 1

The Mission

Episode 27 · 1965-04-02

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  • War & Politics

Episode overview

Savage and the Piccadilly Lily are given a special mission to bomb an oil line in the Säär Valley. Captain Dirksen is a Lead Bombardier from Wing down for the mission. Captain Walters as the alternate Lead Bombardier. Savage's crew has rotated home, so he is using a new crew but needs two new waist gunners. He chooses Waller & Maglie. Waller is actually a bombardier but has excellent gunnery scores. The navigator First Lieutenant Gunther does not want to fly with ""Wash-out"" Waller. Savage chews Waller out for his negative attitude. Waller has a chip on his shoulder because he washed out of flight school then graduated from bombardier school as a Flight Officer and not a Second Lieutenant. On the mission, a bomb gets hung up on the rack and the crew blames Waller as he supervised the bomb loading. Later Waller saves Gunther's life. Captain Dirksen is killed, and the aircraft carrying the alternate lead bombardier is shot down so Waller takes over and makes a perfect bomb run. The plane

Season 1 episodes

1. Golden Boy Had Nine Black Sheep1964-09-18 2. Follow the Leader1964-09-25 3. The Men and the Boys1964-10-02 4. The Sound of Distant Thunder1964-10-16 5. The Climate of Doubt1964-10-23 6. Pressure Point1964-10-30 7. Decision1964-11-06 8. The Hours Before Dawn1964-11-13 9. Appointment at Liege1964-11-20 10. Interlude1964-11-27 11. Here's to Courageous Cowards1964-12-04 12. Soldiers Sometimes Kill1964-12-11 13. The Suspected1964-12-18 14. An Act of War1964-12-25 15. Those Who Are About to Die1965-01-01 16. In Search of My Enemy1965-01-08 17. The Albatross1965-01-15 18. The Lorelei1965-01-22 19. Faith, Hope and Sergeant Aronson1965-01-29 20. To Heinie, with Love1965-02-05 21. The Clash1965-02-12 22. The Ticket1965-02-26 23. The Trap1965-03-05 24. The End of the Line1965-03-12 25. The Threat1965-03-19 26. Mutiny at Ten Thousand Feet1965-03-26 27. The Mission1965-04-02 28. The Cry of Fallen Birds1965-04-09 29. V for Vendetta1965-04-16 30. P.O.W. (1)1965-04-23 31. P.O.W. (2)1965-04-30 32. The Hero1965-05-07