While out on a mission, the squadron saves a transport plane from being shot down by zeros. Unbeknownst to them one of the passengers is Eleanor Roosevelt. The sheep become media darlings and get caught up in their own press. This leads to problems on the ground and in the air.moreless
Pappy cons a unit of lecherous Seabees into repairing the bomb blasted runway with a trumped up promise of a bawdy USO show after the work is done, but the only girls around are the island's four nurses.
Pappy gets transferred back to the States to boost morale, denying him a rematch with a top Japanese air ace and placing the Black Sheep under the command of a no-nonsense by-the-book commander.
As the Black Sheep are preparing for a dangerous night strike against Japanese bombers, things are disrupted by two new arrivals, an underage pilot and a nurse who happens to be Pappy's old flame -- and General Moore's daughter.
Pappy meets his match in a sergeant who is escorting civilian VIPs around the Pacific theater, and who cons Pappy into trading whiskey for oil that fails in the Black Sheep's engines during combat.
The squadron's chances of being assigned the mission to kill Admiral Yamamoto are lessened by T.J.'s romance with a Eurasian girl suspected of giving information to the Japanese.
The promotion list arrives, giving Gen. Moore another star and making Sgt. Micklin a warrant officer, which causes him to become even more hostile towards the "college boy" pilots.