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An important senator is visiting the air fields and he's a real jerk. It seems that because he's hated General Savage for a long time...and this is coloring his judgment of the effectiveness of the American bombing campaign. His excuse is that combat losses are too great but there's more to it than this. As for Savage, he wants to prove that losses can be decreased by sending up a few super-heavily armed bombers, the so-called 'porcupine planes'.

The Senator is a wiener...period. Perhaps he's a realistic character, perhaps he isn't. But it did make for an interesting plot. What also was interesting was the plight of the guy stuck in the belly ball turret...something that occasionally WAS a serious issue. Overall, well worth seeing.

By the way, if you read the IMDB trivia, you'll notice that the super-heavily armed bombers were actually an operational failure...despite how they're portrayed in the show.

Strong writing and acting with incredible shots in the air. The visiting Senator has a long-standing loathing of pilots, thinks they are irresponsible children. He knew Savage years earlier and told him to quit flying. Now he is opposed to daylight and long range bombing and can influence funding. Even General Crowe and General Pritchard have to take crap from him and he threatened to replace Savage and Crowe. The subplot involves a crewman avoiding responsibility to his English girlfriend and Savage has to deal with it too. Savage tries a new tactic to protect the squadron and ignores orders to abort the mission. Too bad he couldn't take the Senator along and drop him on the Nazis.

I loved this show from the beginning and the repeats are even better. It's fairly accurate BUT..... When the copilot tells the general the ground is getting closer he isn't plugged into the intercom. Hardly a big deal 😷