Twelve O’Clock High: 2x4

The Idolator

A new pilot, 1st Lieutenant Joshua Melton McGraw, who is an old friend of Gallagher’s arrives with a chip on his shoulder and buzzes the field. The bombers arrive from the current mission and the lead plane crashes and explodes killing the lead pilot Captain Newman. When Gallagher asks McGraw about the buzzing he says he had radio trouble, and Gallagher chews him out. He asks Josh how he wangled a transfer into the 918, He says he asked his father, a General to work on Gallagher’s father and his fiancé (Britt’s daughter, Martha) to work on General Britt. McGraw is angered to find out that Gallagher is going break up his crew for a couple of runs, standard procedure, he is going fly copilot for Gallagher. While in London to visit General Britt he checks out the plans for tomorrow’s bomb raid. He escorts Phyllis Vincent and during a Bomb raid kisses her in so that Gallagher sees. On the bombing mission the Group is assigned to bomb the 3rd bridge , while the group goes after the regul