The Cockpit - S01

<p>A Luftwaffe pilot faces a choice between duty to his country and duty to the world: guard a bomber carrying Germany's final hope of victory, the world's first atomic bomb, or let it fall in flames to enemy Spitfires and become a footnote in history. Things get more complicated because of the plane's other cargo: the woman he loves.</p> <p>Near the end of the war, Japan has deployed a new weapon, a human-piloted rocket-propelled flying bomb. Aboard a bomber carrying one of these, young Ensign Nogami waits for his chance to die as a "cherry blossom," a suicide pilot. In a few hours, he will die. The date of his death is set: August 6, 1945.</p> <p>Two soldiers try to reach an air base to keep a promise, even though the reality of war may have made that promise meaningless.</p>