A year after this episode aired, guest star Louise Troy who played Frauline Gebhart (aka. Axis Annie) and Werner Klemperer would marry. However, they wound up divorcing six years later.
A picture on the back wall in the barracks is Bob Crane with clothing, hair of a woman.
Above Lebeau's head as his hands scratch Carter's back is Bob Crane with wavy, long dark hair. His body is in some long coat that can be mistaken as an Hawaiian Lei. The picture is in an oval inside a rectangle.
This may be the only picture on a Barrack's wall with some relevance other than something from a magazine, etc.
Above Lebeau's head as his hands scratch Carter's back is Bob Crane with wavy, long dark hair. His body is in some long coat that can be mistaken as an Hawaiian Lei. The picture is in an oval inside a rectangle.
This may be the only picture on a Barrack's wall with some relevance other than something from a magazine, etc.
The title is based on Axis Sally or Mildred Gillars (1900-1988) a female radio announcer during World War II who was best known for her propaganda broadcasts for Nazi Germany providing music and propaganda jabs at the Allied armies.
Colonel Hogan ( Bob Crane ) is introduced by Axis Annie ( Louise Troy ) as being from Bridgeport, Connecticut.
The real-world timeline for the events depicted in Axis Annie (1968) would be some time in 1944. Comments by Hogan and Newkirk establish that rocket attacks on England had already begun: Hogan states explicitly that "those rockets flying out of Peenemunde are creating havoc in England" while Newkirk expresses concern for his sister in London's Stepney district. The first V-1 flying bombs (essentially the first cruise missile) were launched against England from France in June 1944. The first V-2 rockets (essentially the first ICBM, although intra-continental, not inter-continental) were launched against England in September 1944. When Axis Annie asks Hogan how long he has been a prisoner of war, he replies "a couple of years." American bombing in Europe began in mid-1942, making Hogan among the earliest American POWs.
As for the premise of needing to stop the attacks from Peenemunde, writer Laurence Marks composites a number of facts into his story. Peenemunde, a town on the Baltic Sea at the German-Polish border, was instrumental in the development and testing of the V-2 rocket. However, Operation Crossbow, the Allied bombing campaign against the German "vengeance weapon" initiative, and specifically the Operation Hydra raids targeting Peenemunde in August 1943, forced the Germans to move production to an underground facility in central Germany. V-1s were launched from sites in France, and V-2s were launched from mobile "Meillerwagens" that had been designed at Peenemunde, but Peenemunde itself was never used as a site for attacks against England.
As for the premise of needing to stop the attacks from Peenemunde, writer Laurence Marks composites a number of facts into his story. Peenemunde, a town on the Baltic Sea at the German-Polish border, was instrumental in the development and testing of the V-2 rocket. However, Operation Crossbow, the Allied bombing campaign against the German "vengeance weapon" initiative, and specifically the Operation Hydra raids targeting Peenemunde in August 1943, forced the Germans to move production to an underground facility in central Germany. V-1s were launched from sites in France, and V-2s were launched from mobile "Meillerwagens" that had been designed at Peenemunde, but Peenemunde itself was never used as a site for attacks against England.