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Airport Control Officer

He only appears twice in the movie and is killed the second time.

Overview

  • Role Airport Control Officer
  • Nationality German
  • Role description Glance
  • First appearance 02:17:47 (In the Airfield Control Tower)
  • Actor Ernst Walder

Favourite scene

Airport Control Officer discovering the tumult on the airfield, standing up and ordering more soldiers to stop the escaping heroes, with black smoke from the burning planes visible through the control tower window.

The plane lands at Oberhausen airfield. In the same moment, the bus starts and speeds over the field. German soldiers start shooting at the bus. The airport control officer starts the alarm.

Airport Control Officer: Flottilj 126. Oberhausen airfield. Over. Flottilj 126. Over.

Major John Smith: Get the control tower.

Schaffer and Mary shoot at the airport control tower and the officer inside is killed.

Favourite line

Airport Control Officer in a dark gray-blue German air officer’s uniform, speaking with Carpenter over the radio, with technical equipment visible in the background.

Our heroes airplane is on its way to the Oberhausen airfield.

WingComm, er Cecil Carpenter: Oberhausen control tower. Oberhausen control tower.

Airport Control Officer: Oberhausen control. Over.

WingComm, er Cecil Carpenter: I'm in serious trouble. Request aided permission to land. Over.

Airport Control Officer: Identify. Over.

WingComm, er Cecil Carpenter: Lieutenant Ulrich. On night navigation and excercise. One engine loosing altitude. Over.

Airport Control Officer: You're clear for immediate landing. Over.

WingComm, er Cecil Carpenter: Coming in. Over and out.

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Random stills

Smith standing behind Rosemeyer’s chair, giving the notebooks to Kramer and signaling Schaffer to be ready.
Smith’s coordination is essential to the mission’s success.