mission you may never see it again so you do your work as well as it can be done perfectly because you wouldn't want anything to go wrong that would be  always hundred pilots somebody else another gators take their places the group commander colonel stanley rae steps up to the target map and for the first time you learn where you're going sometimes your face turns white when you find out sometimes the feeling you won't come back tightens your insides not so long ago you were sitting like this in a college or high school classroom listening to perhaps even a little sleepy in ones bob or in one group of one wing of one air force out of fifteen united states army let me know what goes on back there quinlan just stay on the ball going and still bring us back like she's always done ok let's go accurate all along the coast and defending his vital installations radar to warn him about coming here is our plan to divide his defenses and weaken his opposit thirteen thirty hours later after takeoff six groups of planes will be heading toward the enemy coast from six directions the blue force one hundred b twenty four liberator four engine vomits the white the nazi controllers send their fighter it's our job to make them guess guess wrong a half hour later at fourteen hundred dollars the blue force will be heading east across the north sea with the white cross following these enemy fighters are tied down waiting to meet them and will not be able to attack the green for these fighters must come up to attack the green for us and thus will be no threat to the blue and white forces the b twenty six is and  will bomb and spray the key rail junction diverting viz to stop them and preventing the enemy from concentrating too many fighters on the green party which is scheduled to bomb an aircraft factory at kind of  a fourteen thirty hours the blue force will threaten this entire coastal area of northwestern germany which target will  fifteen hundred dollars while the white forces over its target only a fraction of the available german fighter strength of the carrier can intercept it because of the blue force diversion and the simultaneous bombing  of the green force this is the plan of battle for today drawn up by the combined operations planning committee and approved by the commanding general every face thursday and count watches trying to read the numbers on the ships these planes have priority to land first the colored great game with the other men in your crew fighting to keep you alive until late at the field the field these men will get the purple heart and this man t a transfusion right in the play this gun is too weak to be moved to new life giving blood flowing into his veins might be the blood of a high school girl in des moines minor in alabama a movie star in hollywood or it might be your blood was ever it is thirty six planes left this field this morning six moron that makes twenty home this was twenty one more w twenty two coming in with his left inboard engine twenty three with a feather prop on his left out bowditch twenty four so then company with a chunk of tail gone twenty five they flew home on their luck twenty six on a scratch twenty nine planes back so far twenty nine of thirty six losses were heavy but the enemies were far heavier we destroyed a german aircraft factory a rail junction submarine pens docks and harbor installations that specific no one damage but who can tell the number of german torpedoes that will not be fired a number of our convoys that were going through  among the return crew members talk flows like a river talking on every detail of the mission these are the faces of combat faces of americans who have watched their comrades die still watching and waiting and he spots the last flight three more planes one of them is the ship everyone's been pulling for wheels of the memphis the old come back to the soil of england for the t this is a day they will never forget and then there was another  never thought anything like this would happen to him when he left yeah the ground crew were a little self conscious about being president but the but the queen thought they were very nice their twenty sixth and most important mission return to america to train new crews to tell of people what we're doing here to thank them for their help and support and told them to keep it up so we can keep it up so we can bomb the enemy again and again and again until we are scared enough and then we can all come