12 O'Clock High

12 O'Clock High

Maj. Harvey Stovall

Col. Joseph Anson Gallagher

Sgt. Sandy Komansky

General Frank Savage

Doc Kaiser

Capt. Fowler

While trying to get sponsors for this series the producers approached the Volkswagen executives and showed them the pilot show which featured actual bombing footage from the war. During the film one of the executives recognized the plant that was being bombed as the VW plant which had made cars for the German army at the time. He commented, "There goes our plant", and the executives then and there decided not to sponsor the show.

In the initial episodes of the series, Savage wears a normal A-2 leather flight jacket with rounded collar points and general's stars on the ends of the epaulet straps at the shoulder. This changes in later episodes to another jacket with sharp collar points, stars in the middle of the epaulets, a cigarette pouch on the left arm, and expansion gussets at the rear of each shoulder.

George Nader was originally set to play Gen. Frank Savage, played by Gregory Peck in the film version (Twelve O'Clock High (1949)), but Robert Lansing was eventually given the role.

Reconnaissance flights are often shown with a P-51D taking off but a P-51B in flight. Due to their radically altered canopy configurations, these two types are plainly different.

The B17 Picadilly Lilly is an "F" model, yet throughout the series, combat footage of "G" model B17s are cut into the scenes. The main difference between the models is that the G models feature a "chin" turret under the nose of the plane.

Throughout the series, actors regularly smoked king-sized filter cigarettes, which didn't exist in WWII.