Fighter Squadron Page #2

to tell Adolf.

Thanks for the umbrella.

Glad we could

return the favor.

You guys have

helped us plenty.

Haystack calling Hardin.

Haystack calling Hardin.

Who's that... Stu?

You character! Come on home.

I'm in no condition

to go to London.

Here he comes.

Crash truck, fire

truck standing by.

Anything else you need? Over.

Landing gear jammed.

Bring me a wheelbarrow.

Let's get out there.

Let me talk to him.

Easy, Ed. Easy.

Go ahead!

Boy, did we sweat you out!

You're lucky.

You're telling me!

Let's see you fly it out.

Get in. We'll go.

Not me.

That ship's a wreck.

Have the taxpayers

get me another.

Sure, sure, I understand.

Get these directives

off my desk.

Four days to install

radio equipment?

Take a memo.

What will I say?

Tell them to do it faster.

Here's another...

Cutting our requisition

on gun cameras in half.

From now on,

order twice as

many as we need.

I won't have the Air Depot

tell me how to run things.

Who the blazes is

Sergeant Kinsey?

I don't know, sir,

but there's been a stream

of young ladies here

from Randall, Kentborough,

Stratford, and Dorset,

all complaining about

a Sergeant Kinsey.

He must be quite a Don Juan.

It can't be any of our men.

They don't get passes to

get around that much.

See that I'm not bothered

with this Kinsey again.

Yes, sir.

General Gilbert's here, sir.

Send him in.

Ah, hello, Mel.

Sit down. Have a cigar.

No, thank you, sir.

Your wing had it hot today.

14 lost, 9 washouts,

20 major repairs.

When fatso Goering puts up three

groups to protect the target,

that means our bombers

are hitting them where

they're tender.

What's the trouble?

How did you know?

When there isn't any,

you take a cigar.

It's a thing I

hate to request...

The court-martial of a

fighter pilot, Major Hardin.

On what charge?

Repeated violation

of combat orders

in the face of the enemy.

This is difficult.

Next to Brickley,

he has the highest score

of planes in the command,

and he's one of your boys...

That's got nothing

to do with it.

I didn't mean to

imply favoritism.

What's he done this time?

The same as before...

Refuse to stay

with the bombers.

In fairness, he went

down to the deck

trying to save one of his men,

but afterwards, he didn't

rejoin his squadron.

He kept on after

the enemy plane.

Did he get him?

He got three...

Two in the air, one

on the ground.

By strafing the field, he

subjected his plane to flak...

A cylinder shot off.

He had to wash out his plane.

It's lucky he wasn't lost.

That gives him, let me see...

16 victories.

Makes a court-martial

kind of tough.

It's because of that, sir.

He's a top ace.

The replacements

see him as an idol

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