12 O'Clock High (TV series) DVD cover.
Disambiguation : this page is about the TV series of the 1960s ; for the 1949 American Movie, look at Twelve O'clock High.
TV Series (1964-1967)
Starring:
Robert Lansing (Brigadier General Frank Savage (season 1))
Paul Burke (Colonel Joe Gallagher (seasons 2 and 3, two appearances in season 1))
Frank Overton (Major Harvey Stovall)
Chris Robinson (T/Sgt. Alexander "Sandy" Komansky (seasons 2 and 3))
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Season One[]
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress[]
Ep. 01 Golden Boy Had 9 Black Sheep
The first landing seems to be filmed using a radio command model. Later, archive footage are more realistic.
Several nose arts applied on the (same ?) aircraft:
Leper Colony
Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress[]
Ep. 01 Golden Boy Had 9 Black Sheep
Dear Mom Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress s/n 42-38168 of 359th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bombardment Group, 1st Air Division (archive footage).
Ep. 07 Decision
Archive footage of what à Boeing B-17 G which seems christened King's Racer (?)
Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress[]
Ep. 07 Decision
Archive footage of a B-17 with LL*F squadron code (401st bombardment squadron, 91st bombardment group with tail code ▲A). Six Flying Fortresses were coded F as individual letter code, three of them being of the F variant :
- B-17F-15-VE s/n 42-5763 Bomb Boogie lost on her 17th mission on 06 September 1943;
- B-17F-50-BO s/n 42-5362 Short Snorter II (did not return of her fourth mission on 26 Februar 1943);
- B-17F-70-BO s/n 42-29793 Shelia B. Cummin. Crash landing following trouble and aborted mission (4 October 1943). Returned to the USA 28 April 1944 after 20 missions.
A Luftwaffe gun camera footage used ... just before the stream is under attack !
Unidentified Aircraft[]
Ep. 01 Golden Boy Had 9 Black Sheep
Aerial action relied on combat footage, mostly drawn from the wartime documentary The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress. But some surprising footage are used too.
Ennemy high-wing aircraft ending in a great ball of fire :
A Luftwaffe fighter hit in its drop tank and so rolling into a steep dive.
Messerschmitt Bf 109 G[]
Ep. 01 Golden Boy Had 9 Black Sheep
Messerschmitt Bf 109G equipped with the Rüstsatz VI underwing gondola cannon kit (and on the second screenshot still with the drop tank, so a captured German footage).
Ep. 03 The Men and The Boys and Ep. 15 Those Who Are About to Die
Ep. 06 Pressure Point
A damaged Bf 109 G with the Rüstsatz (kit) VI and the left main landing gear partially down. It is under fire still with its drop tank. The next second, a direct hit in the tank makes it in a great ball of fire.
Republic P-47 Thunderbolt[]
Ep. 01 Golden Boy Had 9 Black Sheep
Footage from a combat training ?
Ep. 03 The Men and The Boys
Little Friends diving to help the stream.
Republic P-47 bubbletop (D-25 and over or N variant) :
Supermarine Spitfire[]
Ep. 02 Follow the Leader
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing).
War footage already used for the movie seen here a glimpse before the B-17 was out of sight.
Unidentified Aircraft[]
Ep. 02 Follow the Leader
Lockheed P-38 Lightning / Lockheed F-5[]
Ep. 02 Follow the Leader
Ep. 07 Decision
Action required a Lockheed F-5 (the photo-reconnaissance variant) and maybe here is one :
... but seconds later this one is clearly armed so just a basic Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter.
Boeing DB-17P Flying Fortress[]
Featuring Boeing DB-17P Flying Fortress 44-83684 Piccadilly Lily, actually on the civil registry as N3713G and seen with the military serial of "3713", fictitious code V*HP despite displaying 1st Combat Bomb Wing tail markings... and various nose art !
Ep. 02 Follow the Leader
Ep. 03 The Men and The Boys
North American P-51D Mustang[]
Ep. 03 The Men and The Boys
Ep. 16 In Search of My Enemy
Footage already used in 1953 by Ishirō Honda for Taiheiyo no washi / 太平洋の鷲 (Eagle of the Pacific)
The 3 machine guns on the left wing of a P-51 (seen in place of the armament of the Bf 109 leading the attack).
Messerschmitt Bf 110[]
Ep. 03 The Men and The Boys
B-17 under attack from a Bf 110.
Lockheed Hudson[]
Ep. 05 The Climate of Doubt
Acting as a Luftwaffe night bomber over London.
Focke-Wulf Fw 190[]
Ep. 05 The Climate of Doubt
Footage reused in S1E11 and S1E13.
Ep. 11 Here's to Courageous Cowards
A Luftwaffe fighter with such four letters code was not from a combat unit but on delivery or used for tests.
Messerschmitt Bf 109 E[]
Ep. 05 The Climate of Doubt
Boeing QB-17F Flying Fortress[]
Ep. 05 The Climate of Doubt
Public footage about the Nike/Ajax validation test from 1954. Regarding the other use of this action (look at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Military Fixed-Wing) to find other title featuring it), the image is topsy-turvy.
Seen again at 18 minutes in S1E16 In Search of My Enemy.
Unidentified Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress[]
Ep. 06 Pressure Point
No Flying Fortress known with such serial 4n-23613 (or 42-3613) ! A in triangle stands for 91st Bomb Group but GK two-letter squadron identification code is fictitious.
Boeing B-17F-45-BO Flying Fortress[]
Ep. 06 Pressure Point
Yankee Doodle Dandy Boeing B-17F-45-BO Flying Fortress s/n 42-5264 with 30 mission marks. Will added eight others before flying back to the USA on April 1944. Was delivered at Denver on 11 February 1942 and assigned to 358 BS / 303 BG on January 1943 as VK-J.
Unidentified Aircraft[]
Ep. 06 Pressure Point
North American T-6 Texan[]
Ep. 11 Here's to Courageous Cowards
North American T-6 Texan towing a target (gunnery training).
de Havilland Canada L-20 Beaver[]
Ep. 14 An Act of War
The de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver first flight was in 1947. Nearly one thousand were ordered by the U.S. Army as L-20 Beavers.
Of course, anachronistic but the serail number (60368) is (ironically?) from a cancelled batch for intended Aeronca L-3C-AE Grasshopper (42-60281/60770). But this lighter aircraft used for liaison and transport duties didn't match with deep rescue pick-up of people (underground fighters, rescue high-ranking pilots, spies). This Beaver is closer to the UC-81 (Stinson Reliant) of the World War 2.
The white roof is the usual paint sheme of some liaison/transport aircraft during the 1960s; of course, not during WW2.
Consolidated B-24H Liberator[]
Ep. 16 In Search of My Enemy
Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress[]
Ep. 16 In Search of My Enemy
s/n 41-24416 Black Diamond Express Boeing B-17F-5-BO Flying Fortress built in mid-1942. Based at Molesworth, Cambridgeshire, England between June 1943 and her return to the USA (5 July 1944). Used for War Bond tour before before being scrapped in October 1945.
Ep. 17 The Albatross
Boeing B-17F/G Flying Fortress with OR identification code (323rd bomb squadron, 91st Bombardment Group).
Eight B-17s used this radio call letter, all lost during operations. Only one had their entire crew safe.
Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress with WW identification code (369th Bomb Squadron) :
s/n 42-29993 Carroll Jun Boeing B-17F-80-BO based at Thurleigh 19 April 1943; Missing in Action over Oschersleben on 11 January 1944 : flak knocked off tailplane, so the B-17 spinned then crashed killing all the crew but the radio operator (prisonner of war)
or
s/n 42-5970 Boeing B-17F-40-VE 369BS/306BG [WW-K] Thurleigh 21/4/44; Missing in Action 16/7/44.
Footage shown inverted as the pilot is on the way back to base (i.e. towards England, to the West ... so on the left!).
Season Three[]
Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress[]
Ep. 3.01 Gauntlet of Fire.
Hundred Proof was a bare metal B-17 G s/n 42-98015 delivered in May 1944 which survived the war but quickly scrapped for metal).
Ep. ?
44-83316 : derelic fuselage being used for a crash scene or with a wheel stand putting the airplane into a normal B-17 attitude so it could be placed in the background. Seen with various serial on the tail (863 or 11868) with or without nose art. No chin turret.
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