A Russian major aboard a 918th bomber recklessly shoots down a friendly plane from his own country, which causes problems for Gallagher when his force lands at a Russian airbase.
Gallagher's men take charge of a newly liberated Italian airfield, but the colonel there is so lax, that loyalist could help the Germans retake the base.
Col. Gallagher agrees to take orders from a brutal British Major leading his commandos to destroy an advanced radar facility, after his B-17 is shot down.
Col. Gallagher becomes a POW in Germany, when a German admiral helps to rescue him, then reveals plans to kill Hitler and negotiate total surrender to the allies.
Gallagher has a German born navigator bomb a hidden factory, and when they're forced to land in a Nazi Camp his accent becomes a liability as the Russians advance.
A British fighter pilot is enlisted to recover parts of a German guided missile that crashed in Sweden intact. But he has become depressed, alcoholic, overbearing and, unfortunately, has an anti-Yank chip on his shoulder.
A top notch aging bomber pilot is called in to surgically bomb a house of German scientist working on atomic weapon plans, nestled next to a building of allied POW's.
Gallagher is on allied captured base in Belgium in danger of being overran, with a boy that refuses to help him translate a wealth of German documents.
Two black U.S. soldiers guarding enemy POWs on an island help Gallagher and his wounded after they bail out, but the good medic in charge, may be hiding a secret.
A pilot captain suspected of bailing out of plane and leaving his crew to die in a previous mission, may have had a uncontrollable reason for doing so.