This is the true story of a World War II air combat crew`s amazing courage and indomitable spirit during the two years they spent together flying and surviving. It follows them from the day the crew first came together to the day they shot down more German aircraft during a single mission than any other American aircraft, bomber or fighter, had ever done. From their seventeenth and final mission, when they had to ditch "Doc" over enemy territory, to their capture and interment in the infamous Stalag 17B, where they spent 16 months in captivity.