:24:25
Yes, sir, we fell behind
on the turn.
:24:26
Yes, sir, we fell behind
on the turn.
:24:27
I used maximum power and
pulled up with the group.
:24:30
- After you dropped your bombs.
- Yes, sir.
:24:33
- What did you drop them on?
- The target, sir.
:24:36
The target? With solid cloud cover?
Come on, Rickson.
:24:40
We found a hole.
We had about six-tenths visibility.
:24:43
- At what altitude?
- About 9000.
:24:46
Eight thousand five hundred, sir.
:24:50
- How's your hearing, Rickson?
- Very good, sir.
:24:53
In fact, all your reactions
are good, aren't they?
:24:56
You're about the hottest pilot
in the whole group.
:24:58
Yes, sir. I guess I am.
:25:02
Except for one thing. You're
insubordinate and irresponsible.
:25:06
- Me?
- You heard my order...
:25:07
...for the 180-degree turn, and you
deliberately abandoned formation.
:25:10
It wasn't deliberate. We ran into a little
bit of heavy haze, and I lost contact.
:25:15
And then you happened
to find yourself over the target.
:25:18
It says in regulations
if a target of opportunity...
:25:21
Don't tell me what it says in regulations.
This target didn't present itself.
:25:24
You defied mission orders.
You went after it.
:25:27
You went over a heavy flak corridor
at too low altitude...
:25:30
...and risked every man
in your squadron.
:25:31
I risk their lives every time
I take them off the ground.
:25:35
Don't I, sir?
:25:38
Anyway, we got through this one
all right. No one was hurt.
:25:41
Except Braddock.
:25:45
That was later, sir,
and it wasn't flak.
:25:53
I'm sending Reconnaissance over to
photograph the submarine pens in Kiel.
:25:56
And I think it'll show
that we clobbered them, sir.
:25:59
It had better.