Twelve O'Clock High

Clips of the Twelve O'Clock High Series

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• B-17

[MrPloopy]

This was my Dad's & my favorite TV show when I was 4, 5, & 6 years old. Only later did I learn why my Dad was such a fan - he was a pre-teen & teen aged Polish slave laborer in Wiesmoor (NW Germany btwn Emden & Wilhelmshaven) from May 1942 until May 1945 and witnessed many an air battle from the ground. I think it was his way of paying tribute to the fallen & surviving aviators who helped win his freedom, to put his nightmares in perspective, and to see German asses kicked again & again.

[bluegoosejuice]

There isn't a show on televison now that compares to TWELVE O'CLOCK HIGH. NOT ONE!

[EIBBOR2654]

This TV series is why I enlisted in the Air Force. Thank God I served in SAC, yes I'm a SAC trained killer and proud of it! I still serve but with a Lawn Dart unit (F-16s), I miss the heavies, B-52s. Still the B-17 was the toughest bomber of WWII and the crews will always be my Heroes! I watched an interview of a German fighter pilot about attacking B-17s. He said that trying to shoot down a B-17 was like making love to a porcupine! Got to love that comment.

[maureencora1]

With the 332th Fighter Group the Red Tails as one episode as Escorting the 918th Bomber Group.

[stalker1647]

@MrPloopy - Thanks for Posting this - I'm from an AF family - my Grandfather and Father were Army Air Service, Air Corps, Air Force, and I retired from the Air Force after 28 years. People ask me why we do this - why Americans go all over the world to risk their lives to take fire and steel to foreign lands.It is so that boys like your father - and the ones with him - will get a chance to live free.

[Kharkovkid]

My Dad found and bought the nose art from the B-17 Green Gertrude in the early 60`s...It was a hula girl body with a Popeye Gargoyle head on top. He donated it to a museum when my mom got tired of it. I went to that museum when Memphis Belle came out. The directior admitted to me it had been liberated from the warehouse.... I was stunned.

[LargeSizedMarge]

@LargeSizedMarge The Air Corps ceased to have an administrative structure on 9 March 1942. As "the permanent statutory organization of the air arm, and the principal component of the Army Air Forces," it remained as a branch of the Army until 1947, and the overwhelming majority of personnel assigned to the AAF were members of the Air Corps......

[LargeSizedMarge]

@irish89055 Thats good. My dad joined the USAAC in 1939, and was very adamant that he was in the corp not the air force. It must have been a sticking point for him, possibly the change made people with a few years under their belts upset by the time 1942 rolled around.

[irish89055]

@LargeSizedMarge Try again Marge..... The USAAF was evolved from the USAAC in 1942 then became the USAF in Sept 1947..

[LargeSizedMarge]

My dad's favorite show. He was a sheet metal fabricator with the 381st HBG in Ridgewell England. I asked him once why he didn't join our local VFW and he said "Nobody ever asked me to risk my life". All I did was stay on the ground. His pet peeve was four-flushers that never saw combat but always wanted to tell stories like they were.

[LargeSizedMarge]

@irish89055 Army Air Corps, not Force.

[irish89055]

@varanid9 Yes, true. My father flew B17's and they are definitely ARMY.... Army Air Force.. Great looking plane, had one here near Richmond, VA yesterday. Great series, my dad enjoyed it..