1942年2月，哈里斯接任英国轰炸机指挥部司令官。他主张对大城市进行彻底的集中轰炸，以挫败敌国的士气和民心。与此同时，英国研制出先进的电子设备，用以提高轰炸精度。
同年3月份以后，英国开始由以往对不同目标轮番轰炸改变为短时间内集中轰炸。5月30日夜，英国空军对德国科隆市实施了千机大轰炸，从而揭开了对德国本土大规模轰炸的序幕。
为了组织这次轰炸，英国除动用了一线空军部队和防御指挥部的全部轰炸机外，还从训练部队中抽调了300余架轰炸机，参战飞机数量达到了1046架。这次空袭历时90分钟，投弹1455吨。科隆240余公顷地区遭到破坏，中心区的一半建筑夷为平地，致使486人死亡，5027人受伤，14万人无家可归，破坏效果明显。
英军为了迷惑敌军，对附近机场和其他目标进行了佯攻。空袭中，英军共损失飞机40架。

College graduates deal with Vietnam and other issues of the late '60s.

The Culpepper Cattle Co. is a worthy example of a certain kind of early-1970s Western: deglamorized, unromantic, and frankly violent. This one begins in familiar terms, as a greenhorn lad joins a cattle drive, surrendering himself to the extremely focused leadership of boss Frank Culpepper. The episodes that follow are engrossing and colorful, and the drive gets more interesting when a quartet of lethal hombres join the ride. The business of frontier justice--which here usually means shooting strangers just to be on the safe side--is worked out in refreshingly unheroic ways. Clearly director Dick Richards (making his debut in a relatively brief directing career) is responding to the revisionist era, and specifically to the films of the great Sam Peckinpah.

A bank-robbing gang of misfits heads to Mexico with the blueprints for the perfect million-dollar heist, but when one of the crooks wanders into the wrong bar, the thieving cohorts develop a thirst for blood.

A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.

Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".

An urgent phone call pulls a Yale Law student back to his Ohio hometown, where he reflects on three generations of family history and his own future.