It's May 17, 1943; the day before the Memphis Belle's, a B-17 bomber, 25th and final mission. After their final mission, they crew of ten men get to go home. Since they would be the first crew to finish all 25 missions in the 8th Airforce, there were already plans to make the 10-man crew big stars back home for the war effort. But the mission hadn't been flown yet. With the target being Bremen (not Dresden), which was a target heavy in surface-to-air artillery, the flak wouldn't be easy to get through. With weather, nerves, and dreams all playing a part in the finishing of the mission, the crew has to become the lead plane in the squadron and get the job done of bombing a Nazi supply factory, if they get it wrong, many innocent people could be killed.

The poem Sgt. Danny Daly (Eric Stoltz) reads is "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death", by Irish poet William Butler Yeats (but a stanza referring to Ireland is left out).

Clay Busby:
Sir, if they found out they'd put my hot dog in a bun and chow down.

Continuity: Number of blades on propeller of first wounded B-17 returning to base.

Written by Tommie Connor, Jimmy Kennedy and Hamilton Kennedy