12 O'Clock High

Continuous stressful missions have made the men of 918th extremely fatigued, and put their planes in very bad shape with even more missions to come.

The 918th is now temporarily part of the 15th Air Force. They fly to a newly liberated Italian airfield to take charge. The commander, Colonel Yates, is drunk. Gallagher finds base security so lax that Italian loyalists could help the Germans retake the base.

Gallagher agrees to take orders from a brutal British Major named Mallory leading his commandos to destroy an advanced radar facility, after his B-17 is shot down.

A strict flight-instructor captain gives low instrument rating grades to a good combat pilot, which could hurt his chances of promotion.

52 Division 3rd Bn captures Argenteau Air Six Air Defense HQ in cellar, Sandy & Gallagher are in France scouting forward bases. Is ordered to investigate . Harvey & Rand from CIC fly in to examine documents. Major Dimscek is killed defending position. Captain Maso and the Willard Germans are closing in. Doud leads mission that successfully bombs the town.

A nun (Lilia Skala) won't evacuate her mountain top retreat, despite the fact that the Germans are using it as cover for attacks. Gallagher parachutes onto the mountain to get the Nuns and some refugees to move so the area can be bombed.

Captain Dula is a pilot flying as Navigator while Harvey flies as co-pilot and gets wounded. When Gallagher is wounded, Dula takes over but argues with Komansky; Komansky saves Harvey from bleeding to death, only to be charged with mutiny. Komansky talks with Jeanne, who gives him a letter from Jimmy Sinclair saying that Dula abandoned his crew. Dula suffers panic blackouts followed by memory loss.