Part Six
- Episode aired Feb 23, 2024
- TV-MA
- 1h 1m
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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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A tale of two interrogations
A masterly juxtaposition of two very different interrogations
One, obvious and pointed, as a smarmy German officer uses every trick he can think of to wheedle information out of Egan, who is far too smart and far, far too loyal to fall for it.
The other, not at all obvious, as a charming and confident - yet coy about her job - British officer befriends Crosby in a most unlikely way. To me it is obvious that she has been sent to see if the best navigator in the 8th is one to get drawn into a compromising position that could leave him open to blackmail, should he be captured by the Germans. This isn't made up - the woman is real and from Crosby's own account(1).
And, of course, there is a third with Rosie's crew sent on R'n'R, but also being assessed to see if they are fit to continue.
This is the part of war we don't talk about being spoken out loud. The grief that stays with you, the suspicion that surrounds you, and the pain and horror that will leave scars for a lifetime.
1. I did like the Scotland reference, allowing the playful idea that the mysterious young woman might be a very young Princess (future Queen) Elizabeth. A nice bit of wit in the darkness.
One, obvious and pointed, as a smarmy German officer uses every trick he can think of to wheedle information out of Egan, who is far too smart and far, far too loyal to fall for it.
The other, not at all obvious, as a charming and confident - yet coy about her job - British officer befriends Crosby in a most unlikely way. To me it is obvious that she has been sent to see if the best navigator in the 8th is one to get drawn into a compromising position that could leave him open to blackmail, should he be captured by the Germans. This isn't made up - the woman is real and from Crosby's own account(1).
And, of course, there is a third with Rosie's crew sent on R'n'R, but also being assessed to see if they are fit to continue.
This is the part of war we don't talk about being spoken out loud. The grief that stays with you, the suspicion that surrounds you, and the pain and horror that will leave scars for a lifetime.
1. I did like the Scotland reference, allowing the playful idea that the mysterious young woman might be a very young Princess (future Queen) Elizabeth. A nice bit of wit in the darkness.
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