Here's a full summary of the first half of my collab "Behind the Red Line", and animation I'm working on.
The following story is fictional, but takes place during real events
This is for F-22 Production members.
On December 15 1944, during World War Two, a small bombing raid of American 8th Air Force B-17 bombers is flown against some last minute target's in Frankfurt, Germany. One of the bombers is piloted by a man named Micheal Damon, and on board his plane is a stowaway* named Leonard O'Neil. The aircraft makes a successful run but is attacked by German fighter planes and damaged, wounding one man, and is also bombarded with flak**, and two crew members are killed. When the plane is over the Ardenns forest (on the Belgian/German border), more flak ensues, and the aircraft is shot down. All except one member of the crew manages to bale out. Damon and his crew manage to regroup, except for O'Neil, who is separated from the rest. They decide to set up camp for the night. Unfortunately, they don't know they are in fact 11 miles inside German territory, and when German troops come looking for them, they end up in a struggle to evade capture. Meanwhile, O'Neil, completely clueless with his geography, starts walking west, in an attempt to find american troops (he is too inside German territory). Eventually, O'Neil makes it back to the Americans, but right after, get's caught up in the middle of the Battle of the Bulge***.
*In WW2, ground crews were known for sneaking on board bombers, because they wanted to fight.
**Flak is a kind of Anti Aircraft weapon. An artillery gun launches a projectile in the air, and that explodes when it reaches a certain altitude.
***The Battle of the Bulge was Hitlers last major offensive in the war. The Germans attempted to drive hundreds of new King Tiger tanks, backed up my thousands of infantry (and the bad weather which grounded all Allied airplanes from bombing them), north-west from the German/Belgian border, through Belgium, to the coast city of Antwerp, cutting American forces (on the south side) and the British forces (on the north side) in two. It failed, and by 26 December, the weather lifted and the German advance stalled. They were pushed back to where they started in February 1945. The Germans surrendered on May 8 1945.
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