The Loneliest Place in the World
- Episode aired Sep 13, 1965
- 1h
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8.2/10
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Gen. Savage is killed when his plane is shot down by a captured B-17, and later, Lt. Col Gallagher shoots down another suspicious B-17 killing 10 Americans.Gen. Savage is killed when his plane is shot down by a captured B-17, and later, Lt. Col Gallagher shoots down another suspicious B-17 killing 10 Americans.Gen. Savage is killed when his plane is shot down by a captured B-17, and later, Lt. Col Gallagher shoots down another suspicious B-17 killing 10 Americans.
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- TriviaWhile there may be no instances of German captured B-17's being used to attack American aircraft, There is a story of the Italian front where an Italian pilot reportedly did use a captured P-38 fighter (still in its USAAF markings) to attack American Bombers. One pilot who lost his plane and crew supposedly used a YB-40 (an up-gunned experimental B-17 with 16 x .50 MG vs 11 x .50 MG) painted with the known Italian pilot's wife's picture (she was in allied occupied territory) and as the story goes, enraged the Italian pilot over the radio with descriptions of making love to the woman. The Italian recklessly did a frontal attack to kill the American and wound up being shot down by the up-gunned bomber and was captured. He survived the war, the American was killed on a later mission. There are some disputes about the story and some sources report that no YB-40's were used in Italy but it is listed in many references as true.
- GoofsAs the sole survivor of Brig Gen Savage's crew, TSgt Komansky is rescued by the French Underground and returned to Archbury in a matter of a day or so. Actual returns of Allied aircrews rescued by the French Underground normally took several months, especially before the D-Day invasion; also such aircrews were almost never returned to combat in the European Theater, but reassigned to another theater or back the the Continental US because they knew too much about the Underground operations and would risk compromising that information if subsequently captured by the Germans.
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Lt. Col. Joe Gallagher: Do you know something, Suzanne; All my life I've wanted to meet a girl who had 17 mobiles.
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Last episode for Frank Savage, too bad!
I am 51 years old and vaguely remember watching some episodes when I was a child. Now I have watched the first season on American Life TV (Time Warner NYC).I have missed a few episodes but overall the first season was excellent and Savage was an important character played well by the actor. He was very believable; tough, by the book but caring and compassionate too. Sad to see him go in this first episode of the second season that I saw last night. I feel that the network executives made a mistake cutting him out but I will continue to watch it and see if I am right. Does anyone know if the Germans really did use restore B-17's to get into our formations and wreak havoc?
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- mdantonio
- May 20, 2008
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- Runtime1 hour
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- 1.33 : 1
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