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Scripted by Sy Bartlett and Beirne Lay Jr. from their own scenario-like novel about a heavy bomber group in the U.S. Army's Eighth Air Force (in which they both served), Twelve 0'Clock High has the uncommon merit of restraint. It avoids such cinemilitary booby traps as self-conscious heroics, overwrought battle scenes and the women left behind or picked up along the way. (In fact, women appear only in bit parts.) The picture concentrates on an engrossing human crisis posed by the demands of the early air war's "maximum effort...
Twelve O'Clock High is the story of a stubborn flying general's mission: rebuilding a bomber group whose shattered morale under heavy losses threatens to 1) discredit precision daylight bombing, and 2) undermine the whole aerial offensive against German-held Europe. Brigadier General Frank Savage-(Gregory Peck) goes at the job with the cold passion of a martinet and the inner torment of a man of good will. He breaks subordinates, cancels privileges, harangues his crews ("Consider yourselves dead"), disgraces misfits, puts the outfit through elementary training paces and woos such resentment that every pilot accepts...
...when the first men from the engine room hatch were coming to the surface, the Admiralty got the word. Destroyers, frigates, tugs, tenders and salvage ships hurried to the scene. One Lancaster bomber, carrying divers to the wreck, crashed; five men died, indirectly adding to the toll...
...Chicago's Art Institute. In 1929 he quit school to start cartooning on the Chicago Daily News, later moved to Cleveland and the Newspaper Enterprise Association. In 1941, Herblock drew the cartoon for N.E.A. that won him a Pulitzer: a German soldier searching the sky for a British bomber while Parisians look on and grin...
...Bessie's recent chores was finding out how to get the greatest range out of an Air Force bomber. She was given a complicated equation expressing the airplane's flying characteristics. By substituting different "variables," she figured how far it would fly with various loads, at various altitudes, various engine speeds, etc. When Bessie got through, she started over again, to figure how the plane would perform with one engine dead, two engines dead...