***SPOILERS**** Finding himself alone with his B-25, "The King Nine", crew gone USAAF Capt James Embry, played by TV's "Love That Bob" series star Bob Commings, has no idea how he and his plane ended up in the middle of the Tunisian Desert. What also puzzles Embry is him in being in civvies, civilian clothes, instead of his Army Air Force flight fatigues.
Checking out his crashed B-25 bomber Embry sees that it was hit and brought down by German ack-ack fire but his crew seemed to have disappeared off the face of the earth! In the heat of the broiling desert sun Embry starts to hallucinate and sees a member of his flight crew behind the wheel of his downed bomber only to disappear as soon as he got close enough to talk to him! It's later that Embry finds a number of markers indicating where his flight crew were buried that he realizes that he in fact was the only survivor and completely goes stark raving mad! What in fact added to Embry's madness is the sight of a squadron of USAF fighter jets flying in formation above him in 1943! That's years before jet-planes were even put into service!
***SPOILERS*** As it turned out Embry was hospitalized after suffering a mental breakdown in 1960 when he saw a newspaper headline that the long lost B-25 "The King Nine" was found in the Tunisian Desert after being lost for some 17 years. It was the "King Nine" that Embry was to pilot when he came down with a tropical fever and was replaced by another skipper who together with the planes eight man crew ended up getting shot down and killed by German anti-aircraft fire. This had Embry feel guilty all these years in deserting his men in their hour of need in not being able to save their lives but in joining them in their unmarked graves in the desert. It's only when Embry's clothes are examined by the hospital staff that they found that his shoes are filled with desert sand! Sand he somehow picked up while in was suffering delirium when he saw the starting headline of the finding of the "King Nine"! Sand that's traced back to the Tunisian Desert where the crashed B-25 bomber "The King Nine" was found!
Checking out his crashed B-25 bomber Embry sees that it was hit and brought down by German ack-ack fire but his crew seemed to have disappeared off the face of the earth! In the heat of the broiling desert sun Embry starts to hallucinate and sees a member of his flight crew behind the wheel of his downed bomber only to disappear as soon as he got close enough to talk to him! It's later that Embry finds a number of markers indicating where his flight crew were buried that he realizes that he in fact was the only survivor and completely goes stark raving mad! What in fact added to Embry's madness is the sight of a squadron of USAF fighter jets flying in formation above him in 1943! That's years before jet-planes were even put into service!
***SPOILERS*** As it turned out Embry was hospitalized after suffering a mental breakdown in 1960 when he saw a newspaper headline that the long lost B-25 "The King Nine" was found in the Tunisian Desert after being lost for some 17 years. It was the "King Nine" that Embry was to pilot when he came down with a tropical fever and was replaced by another skipper who together with the planes eight man crew ended up getting shot down and killed by German anti-aircraft fire. This had Embry feel guilty all these years in deserting his men in their hour of need in not being able to save their lives but in joining them in their unmarked graves in the desert. It's only when Embry's clothes are examined by the hospital staff that they found that his shoes are filled with desert sand! Sand he somehow picked up while in was suffering delirium when he saw the starting headline of the finding of the "King Nine"! Sand that's traced back to the Tunisian Desert where the crashed B-25 bomber "The King Nine" was found!