A superb film and a pleasant surprise to come across it on You Tube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqxZoVLn6Tg.Compelling from start to finish and very original even though based on a true story.The story is well presented and unfolds cleverly keeping you thinking all the time and not quite sure what is going to happen next. Shatner is fine even though he still playing Kirk as in all his films. The performances of the the aviators are great and the casting is spot on. I started watching this film at 1am and only intended to watch the first half hour but couldn't stop watching it until the I reached the satisfying conclusion. Very very good!

Lately I've been listening to an audio book called "Great Military Blunders of the 20th Century" and during the huge section on WWII a brief chapter came up describing the fate of "Lady be Good." As I got to talking with my wife about the incident, I realized there had to be a connection with the haunting TV movie I'd seen decades ago. I still remember watching it on the B&W TV in my family's basement - with no one else around & believe me it stuck with me. I didn't see any comments on one of the conversations of the ghost crew when one of the members is amazed & fairly disappointed/upset that the Brooklyn Dodgers are no longer in Brooklyn but out in LA. That little bit stuck with me over the years, maybe because I'm from the NYC area. Today all that pathos, pain, relief & a whole bunch of emotions that the young guys felt as they suddenly started their journey to their final resting place, came flooding back as if I'd just watched the movie. Though Learmedia has the film for a whopping 27 dollars and change, I AM absolutely going to buy this film. Now that I think about it, the ideas about death in this film, clearly influenced my own writing in a book - a novel - I am about to release called "The Rest is Silence" ," where the person telling the story, the main character's first wife, has died & is trying to work out/figure out the confusion and anger she feels toward her husband. As others have pointed out, they just don't make them like this anymore. In fact, but for the exception of this film, TV movie or not, and a few like it, maybe they never did. For years I'd mixed this one up with Flight of the Phoenix. Now I realize, except for the desert, they have very little in common. Thanks!

After searching high and low for this movie, I found a link to You Tube, and the whole movie is there. Just sat here in front of my PC and watched it. Loved it. Very similar to the LBG story, even down to the layout of the B 25 as opposed to the LBG's final resting position. I'll post the link here http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7574338161920794843# I hope the people that can't find a copy enjoy the movie as much as I did. (I hope I haven't breached any IMDb rules though!!!) If so, apologies IMDb!!! William Shatner was excellent as the Colonel. The Movie was well acted and even with only the one main set, it held me spellbound to the last credit rolled. Vance played the Major to heart. Not wanting to give in to a bullying General. The crew were endearing to the watcher. I hope this movie can be re released on HD DVD one day. Browndog

Not much point in rehearsing the impact this movie made on me, or the long and until now fruitless search I've made to discover its real title... the experience was much the same as that recounted so many times by others on this page, though unlike several of you I have seen it only once. But, in response to tiamaria_102's comment from April 2005, I too saw the film in the UK - it was broadcast there in 1979 and I still have the diary in which I made an entry commenting on how profoundly it disturbed me, at age 16.SPOILER ALERT!!! Like tiamaria_102, I have a strong recollection that the last body was never found, and that the final scene, certainly as it was transmitted in the UK, featured the last remaining ghost (the tail gunner?) picking up the baseball bat, striking a long drive into the desert, and then dropping the bat and trudging off into the distance to retrieve the ball... presumably to repeat the action forever.I'm sure it's possible my memory has edited out the belated discovery of the final corpse, but that's certainly how I remember the film concluding, and why I remember it making such an impact on me.It's interesting, too, to review the other movies that the screenwriter, Guerdon Trueblood, was involved in... Tarantulas, SST: Death Flight, The Bastard, The Savage Bees. Not much sign in that oeuvre of the sensitivity and perception that so many have commented on here.