American Air Museum in Britain

As part of preparations for the D-Day invasion, members of the US Army's 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions were deployed to Britain. While conducting drills, marches and rehearsal operations in the Spring of 1944, American airborne troops were stationed across counties in the East Midlands including Leicestershire, Rutland and Lincolnshire, often billeted in or around the major towns in these areas.

It’s 1980 and in a darkened operations room located deep in the Norfolk countryside, Fighter Controllers monitoring a bank of radar scopes issue precise instructions into the ears of four US F-5 Tiger pilots. Their mission is to intercept hostile fighters that have intruded into friendly airspace. Or so it appears...