12 O'Clock High
Season 1, Episode 15: Those Who Are About to Die
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The 918th draws a particularly tough mission, an aircraft plant in Rhone Valley, 120 miles beyond fighter support range, surrounded by 500 anti-aircraft batteries and at the bombers maximum fuel range. At least 3 squadrons of fighters will be waiting for the bombers and they will not have a lot of fuel for evasive action. Fog rolls in and they stand down for 3 days, the tension of waiting is driving the men crazy. Tom Lockridge has flown 24 missions and has been hospitalized with hepatitis. He and Sergeant Rutherford are the only members of the original crew, all the others completed there tours or were killed. Major Kaiser wants to keep Lockridge is hospital a little while longer but Lockridge wants to get his tour over with.
All Episodes - Season 1
Episode 1
Golden Boy Had Nine Black Sheep
Episode 2
Follow the Leader
Episode 3
The Men and the Boys
Episode 4
The Sound of Distant Thunder
Episode 5
The Climate of Doubt
Episode 6
Pressure Point
Episode 7
Decision
Episode 8
The Hours Before Dawn
Episode 9
Appointment at Liege
Episode 10
Interlude
Episode 11
Here's to Courageous Cowards
Episode 12
Soldiers Sometimes Kill
Episode 13
The Suspected
Episode 14
An Act of War
Episode 15
Those Who Are About to Die
Episode 16
In Search of My Enemy
Episode 17
The Albatross
Episode 18
The Lorelei
Episode 19
Faith, Hope and Sergeant Aronson
Episode 20
To Heinie, with Love
Episode 21
The Clash
Episode 22
The Ticket
Episode 23
The Trap
Episode 24
The End of the Line
Episode 25
The Threat
Episode 26
Mutiny at Ten Thousand Feet
Episode 27
The Mission
Episode 28
The Cry of Fallen Birds
Episode 29
V for Vendetta
Episode 30
P.O.W. (1)
Episode 31
P.O.W. (2)
Episode 32
The Hero