It was February 1942 when two future B-17 pilots began their training going through Primary to Advanced Flight School where they become best friends.

Join Captain Jack Harrington, the pilot, a Nebraska farm boy; Lieutenant Matt Moore, the copilot who is half Cheyenne Indian; Lieutenant Dale Kennedy, the navigator, a high school teacher; Lieutenant Kenny Donnelly, the bombardier, the son of a multimillionaire; and gunners that include Sergeant Keith McNeil, a career Army man; Sergeant Greg Cerminaro, a college student until the war intervened; Sergeant Al Schulze, a bottle capper from a Wisconsin brewery; Sergeant Joe Angelino, a longshoreman; Sergeant Jim Robinson, a truck driver, and Sergeant Tad Furmanski, a Polish national who survived the horrors of the Auschwitz death camp, as they move to England and become members of the 324th Squadron of the 91st Bombardment Group (heavy), stationed at United States Army Air Force Station #121.

Fly with the rookies through their first mission to bomb German airfields at Romilly-Sur-Seine, France, on December 20, 1942. Listen to their reactions to the shock of combat and relate what it is actually like to fly dangerous daylight precision bombing missions.