Part Six
- Episode aired Feb 23, 2024
- TV-MA
- 1h 1m
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8.0/10
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Rosie and his crew are sent to rest at a country estate. Crosby meets an intriguing British officer at Oxford. Egan faces the essence of Nazi evil.Rosie and his crew are sent to rest at a country estate. Crosby meets an intriguing British officer at Oxford. Egan faces the essence of Nazi evil.Rosie and his crew are sent to rest at a country estate. Crosby meets an intriguing British officer at Oxford. Egan faces the essence of Nazi evil.
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- TriviaWhile not accurate for John Egan's actual evasion and capture in Germany, the experiences shown by his character in this episode were very strongly based on the actual incident named the Russelsheim Massacre, where six American airmen were executed by an angry mob of German civilians, while their two armed guards stood by idle. One uniformed air warden, armed with a semi-automatic pistol, emptied his magazine while shooting all six in the head to ensure they were dead. The incident started when two German women called the airmen, "terror flyers," and one threw a brick to the head of an airman.
Finally, again as portrayed, those airmen who failed to escape were taken by a cart to a nearby cemetery and buried in a mass grave. One event that happened in reality, but not portrayed in the scene was that an air raid siren sounded off at the height of the violence, causing the mob to stop and flee in fear. This allowed two of the six airmen to escape. Their reports were integral to the post-war investigation.
The American prosecutor was Lt. Col. Leon Jaworski, who was the special prosecutor in the Watergate hearing. He insisted on individual accountability for war crimes and secured eight convictions with one acquittal. Six German civilians and the air warden were sentenced to death. The two others were sentenced to 15 and 25 years in prison. One of the death sentences was later commuted to 30 years of hard labor, and the other five were hanged.
- GoofsWhen Robert Rosenthal comes into the doctor's room at the English estate and comes over to the record player, the photograph is playing 33RPM records that did not exist until 1948, and the tone arm (and likely the whole machine) is a Garrard model dating from the 1950s, likely a Garrard RC-80.
- Quotes
Sandra Westgate: [On surprising a near naked Crosby] Oh, don't worry. I've seen men in much less, Captain. Big family. Small house. Few doors.
- ConnectionsReferences Test Pilot (1938)
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This review is as much about some of the truly ridiculous reviews others have made, as it is about this latest episode.
First, many allied airmen captured were executed enroute to their POW camps. This included when they were captured by a small group of German soldiers, who were often undisciplined and poorly trained rear guard troops, precisely as shown in this episode. For one reviewer to claim this portrayal in the episode is unrealistic enough to warrant calling the series "bad," is asinine.
No, the scenes shown with the character John Egan are not based on his actual experiences upon being captured. But, a number of people after the war were brought up on war crimes for executing allied airmen who were captured.
Many others have castigated the series for the scenes involving tribulation between American and British military personnel. Well, those events also happened more often than many are willing to admit to. And yet, this series has been quite evenhanded in that portrayal, showing far more scenes of harmony between the allies, vice the occasional Brit officer who seems fit to unleash his animosities.
The American bomber crews saw this animosity more than other US service members in Great Britain because their entire tour of duty was based in Great Britain. For two scenes to show this conflict, in six episodes, each lasting just a few minutes, seems an entirely appropriate character development, is a fair representation for what happened in real life.
Other reviewers have called the aerial combat scenes unrealistic, and while quite minor issues are present, these items are so trivial as no one but those who've conducted detailed research would notice the issues, and these people all appreciate the vastly more important things the series worked very hard to get entirely correct.
Frankly, enough is enough! People are free to write the reviews as they wish, but they would do well to to at least root their complaints in truth, vice twist what really happened to suit their narrow and frequently faulty criticisms of this series.
This episode was considerably more tranquil overall, as it was intended to be, given it devoted time to the rest and recreation centers many crews were sent to when things became particularly tough for them.
The scenes of Egan trying to evade capture and his experiences upon capture, while not reflective of his actual experiences, were nevertheless an opportunity for artistic license for the producers to bluntly tell narrations that actually did take place. These scenes provide the conflict in the episode, but more importantly, tell a part of the strategic reality that deserved telling. Many bombers crews survived being shot down, only to be captured and executed.
The episode was a nice change of pace that accurately reflected the lifestyle these bomber crews tried to live through, and most often did not.
First, many allied airmen captured were executed enroute to their POW camps. This included when they were captured by a small group of German soldiers, who were often undisciplined and poorly trained rear guard troops, precisely as shown in this episode. For one reviewer to claim this portrayal in the episode is unrealistic enough to warrant calling the series "bad," is asinine.
No, the scenes shown with the character John Egan are not based on his actual experiences upon being captured. But, a number of people after the war were brought up on war crimes for executing allied airmen who were captured.
Many others have castigated the series for the scenes involving tribulation between American and British military personnel. Well, those events also happened more often than many are willing to admit to. And yet, this series has been quite evenhanded in that portrayal, showing far more scenes of harmony between the allies, vice the occasional Brit officer who seems fit to unleash his animosities.
The American bomber crews saw this animosity more than other US service members in Great Britain because their entire tour of duty was based in Great Britain. For two scenes to show this conflict, in six episodes, each lasting just a few minutes, seems an entirely appropriate character development, is a fair representation for what happened in real life.
Other reviewers have called the aerial combat scenes unrealistic, and while quite minor issues are present, these items are so trivial as no one but those who've conducted detailed research would notice the issues, and these people all appreciate the vastly more important things the series worked very hard to get entirely correct.
Frankly, enough is enough! People are free to write the reviews as they wish, but they would do well to to at least root their complaints in truth, vice twist what really happened to suit their narrow and frequently faulty criticisms of this series.
This episode was considerably more tranquil overall, as it was intended to be, given it devoted time to the rest and recreation centers many crews were sent to when things became particularly tough for them.
The scenes of Egan trying to evade capture and his experiences upon capture, while not reflective of his actual experiences, were nevertheless an opportunity for artistic license for the producers to bluntly tell narrations that actually did take place. These scenes provide the conflict in the episode, but more importantly, tell a part of the strategic reality that deserved telling. Many bombers crews survived being shot down, only to be captured and executed.
The episode was a nice change of pace that accurately reflected the lifestyle these bomber crews tried to live through, and most often did not.
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