Name: Here's to Courageous Cowards
Released: 1964-12-04

12 O'Clock High

S1 · E11 — Here's to Courageous Cowards

S1:E11 · Here's to Courageous Cowards

12 O'Clock High

TV Series

196444m7.2

DramaWar & Politics

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Here's to Courageous Cowards

Season 1 · Episode 11 · Dec 4, 1964

Ross Lawrence a clerk in the Group Office stows away with Joe Morse's crew and shoots down an FW. Later Morse offers to have Lawrence transferred to a flight crew, but he refuses. Suspicious, Morse asks Sergeant Meadows to pull the file from the Ground Exec's office and finds out that Lawrence spent a year in an internment camp as a conscientious objector. Morse who has been lead pilot on too many missions is starting to crack and Savage wants him to step down voluntarily as lead pilot. On the next 2 missions they are badly hit and several of Morse's crew are wounded or killed. Needing replacements, Savage orders Lawrence to report for gunnery training, he does and is assigned to the ""Terrible Tillie"" as left waist gunner. On the next mission Wilson leads when Morse blanks out. They get to the target, and Lawrence hesitates until his friend is killed then he shoots down a fighter. At the debriefing, Major Morse recommends Wilson as the new lead pilot.

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12 O'Clock High

TV Series

196444m7.2

DramaWar & Politics

Now playing

Here's to Courageous Cowards

Season 1 · Episode 11 · Dec 4, 1964

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