Twelve O’Clock High

War picture from 1949 following an Air Force crew on daylight bombing missions on Nazi Germany and France. Nonimated for four Oscars and selected for preservation by US National Film Registy., “We’re in a war, a shooting war. We’ve got to fight. And some of us have got to die.” Frank Savage is the WWII commander drawing every ounce of fight from his weary airmen. Solid war drama which won two Oscars., Taut drama telling in flashback the story of an American WWII bomber chief who finds the strain of his command becoming unbearable. For its time, this film presented a remarkably unromanticised picture of war. Featuring an Oscar winning performance from Jagger., Best Picture nominee about an embattled Army Air Corps general who takes over the 918th Bomber Group for raids over World War II Germany when he deems their previous commander has gotten too close with his men., Twelve O’Clock High is a film about the World War II Air Force Squadron, starring Gregory Peck as the commander assigned to straighten up a down-on-their luck squadron, and send them into battle. The film includes footage of real-life World War II aerial fights., An embattled Army Air Corps general takes over the 918th Bomber Group for raids over World War II Germany when he deems their previous commander has gotten too close with his men.