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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Did you know
- 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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more action, less padding, thank you!
This series has been suffering from a dichotomy: whenever there's air battle action, it's great. When it turns to the characters, oof. Not so hot. They are simply too undeveloped and interchangeably bland to work well for drama.
But now we have a third type of action emerging - the POW capture/escape drama. Combine that with more air action and maybe a modicum of personal dramatics back at the base, and we have a good balance.
The pilot trying to get away from cushy R&R just struck me as insane. He should spend his time having fun and smelling the roses at the very pretty estate. Might be his last chance. Is he just so tormented by repressed guilt that he has to risk his neck? Unclear.
The storyline in Oxford was reasonably interesting. But why does this show seem to have it in for the Brits? The snobby guy complaining about Americans fighting and chasing girls in pubs. Like British servicemen weren't doing all that too. The scene was designed to make him look completely insufferable and clueless.
Nice to see that my hunch about a certain character has been proven correct in the final scenes. But what happened to the guys escaping through France, anyway?
But now we have a third type of action emerging - the POW capture/escape drama. Combine that with more air action and maybe a modicum of personal dramatics back at the base, and we have a good balance.
The pilot trying to get away from cushy R&R just struck me as insane. He should spend his time having fun and smelling the roses at the very pretty estate. Might be his last chance. Is he just so tormented by repressed guilt that he has to risk his neck? Unclear.
The storyline in Oxford was reasonably interesting. But why does this show seem to have it in for the Brits? The snobby guy complaining about Americans fighting and chasing girls in pubs. Like British servicemen weren't doing all that too. The scene was designed to make him look completely insufferable and clueless.
Nice to see that my hunch about a certain character has been proven correct in the final scenes. But what happened to the guys escaping through France, anyway?
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- nerrdrage
- Feb 24, 2024
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