One Down One Dead

Two WWII fighter pilots raised on different continents and trained in different countries fight life or death combat with the Luftwaffe over Europe. They flew P-51 Mustangs in the 4th Fighter Group and contributed to the Group score of a record 1000-plus enemy planes destroyed the highest total of any Allied Group. They became Aces within a day of each other; then one was killed in combat on D-Day while the other having been shot down trekked across northern Germany in a futile effort to evade capture.</p> He is finally captured and as a POW is forced to participate in a Death March. After several unsuccessful attempts he and a fellow POW finally escape. Leading a handful of French forced-laborers they capture 25 German soldiers turn them over to Patton's advancing Third Army and eventually return to the U.S. by hospital ship.</p>