Part Six
- Episode aired Feb 23, 2024
- TV-MA
- 1h 1m
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8.1/10
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Rosie and his crew are sent to rest at a country estate. Crosby meets an intriguing British officer at Oxford. Egan faces the essence of Nazi evil.Rosie and his crew are sent to rest at a country estate. Crosby meets an intriguing British officer at Oxford. Egan faces the essence of Nazi evil.Rosie and his crew are sent to rest at a country estate. Crosby meets an intriguing British officer at Oxford. Egan faces the essence of Nazi evil.
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- TriviaWhile not accurate for John Egan's actual evasion and capture in Germany, the experiences shown by his character in this episode were very strongly based on the actual incident named the Russelsheim Massacre, where six American airmen were executed by an angry mob of German civilians, while their two armed guards stood by idle. One uniformed air warden, armed with a semi-automatic pistol, emptied his magazine while shooting all six in the head to ensure they were dead. The incident started when two German women called the airmen, "terror flyers," and one threw a brick to the head of an airman.
Finally, again as portrayed, those airmen who failed to escape were taken by a cart to a nearby cemetery and buried in a mass grave. One event that happened in reality, but not portrayed in the scene was that an air raid siren sounded off at the height of the violence, causing the mob to stop and flee in fear. This allowed two of the six airmen to escape. Their reports were integral to the post-war investigation.
The American prosecutor was Lt. Col. Leon Jaworski, who was the special prosecutor in the Watergate hearing. He insisted on individual accountability for war crimes and secured eight convictions with one acquittal. Six German civilians and the air warden were sentenced to death. The two others were sentenced to 15 and 25 years in prison. One of the death sentences was later commuted to 30 years of hard labor, and the other five were hanged.
- GoofsWhen Robert Rosenthal comes into the doctor's room at the English estate and comes over to the record player, the photograph is playing 33RPM records that did not exist until 1948, and the tone arm (and likely the whole machine) is a Garrard model dating from the 1950s, likely a Garrard RC-80.
- Quotes
Sandra Westgate: [On surprising a near naked Crosby] Oh, don't worry. I've seen men in much less, Captain. Big family. Small house. Few doors.
- ConnectionsReferences Test Pilot (1938)
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Series goes from mediocre to bad
Started watching this episode and in my opinon this has now gone down hill to absurd
multiple captured US aircrew taken into a bombed german town and then killed by civilian mob . Just to be clear that the devastation is not the Americans fault it's stated that this was RAF damage. (as if this somehow makes the Americans innocents)
This did happen on both sides but , when aircrew bail out into the population, but, (I suggest) not when they had been captured by the authories, particularly with high ranking air crew prisoner e.g. A Major - They go for interrogation .
The German mob proves incompetent and 2 of the 6 men are left unknowingly alive. Surprisingly the bodies are then taken out into the countryside on a cart, so lazy writing allows one of them to escape . WTF
(Afternote: I have since discovered the 'Rüsselsheim massacre' which is what the scenario is based on. So is based on a real event)
Never the less, this series is a poor relation to the classic band of brothers and war in the pacific which were totally factul accounts.
This series is largely fictional CGI dross, with cardboard caricatures (particularly of the British) It is not worth any further of my time. Deeply dissappointed.
multiple captured US aircrew taken into a bombed german town and then killed by civilian mob . Just to be clear that the devastation is not the Americans fault it's stated that this was RAF damage. (as if this somehow makes the Americans innocents)
This did happen on both sides but , when aircrew bail out into the population, but, (I suggest) not when they had been captured by the authories, particularly with high ranking air crew prisoner e.g. A Major - They go for interrogation .
The German mob proves incompetent and 2 of the 6 men are left unknowingly alive. Surprisingly the bodies are then taken out into the countryside on a cart, so lazy writing allows one of them to escape . WTF
(Afternote: I have since discovered the 'Rüsselsheim massacre' which is what the scenario is based on. So is based on a real event)
Never the less, this series is a poor relation to the classic band of brothers and war in the pacific which were totally factul accounts.
This series is largely fictional CGI dross, with cardboard caricatures (particularly of the British) It is not worth any further of my time. Deeply dissappointed.
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- Feb 23, 2024
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