Dina Merrill plays a lady meteorologist working for the US Army Air Corps. Meteorologists were VERY important during the war because weather over Europe was notoriously finicky....and often bombing missions needed to be scrubbed because of the cloud cover and fog.
"Which Way the Wind Blows" is a show about WWII with 1966's sensibilities. What I mean is that the show is about a lady meteorologist who is serving in the Army....something VERY unlikely during WWII. But to make it worse, she actually flies over Germany for a couple missions...something I simply cannot believe as women were expressly forbidden to do into such situations. A few female nurses served in war zones and were killed or captured...but a non-nurse flying in a B-7 over Germany is purely a 1960s invention. To make it worse, while she is supposed to be liberated and modern, this lady (Dina Merrill) ALSO is very emotional and when she is confronted by death and the realities of war, her character can't handle it because she is a lady! Huh?! So, on one hand they want to show a modern liberated woman....who can't handle war because she is a female! Clearly this is not only a ridiculous situation but it's like one step forward for women and two (or more) steps back! As a result, it's a VERY weak and silly episode...one that just seems out of place historically.
"Which Way the Wind Blows" is a show about WWII with 1966's sensibilities. What I mean is that the show is about a lady meteorologist who is serving in the Army....something VERY unlikely during WWII. But to make it worse, she actually flies over Germany for a couple missions...something I simply cannot believe as women were expressly forbidden to do into such situations. A few female nurses served in war zones and were killed or captured...but a non-nurse flying in a B-7 over Germany is purely a 1960s invention. To make it worse, while she is supposed to be liberated and modern, this lady (Dina Merrill) ALSO is very emotional and when she is confronted by death and the realities of war, her character can't handle it because she is a lady! Huh?! So, on one hand they want to show a modern liberated woman....who can't handle war because she is a female! Clearly this is not only a ridiculous situation but it's like one step forward for women and two (or more) steps back! As a result, it's a VERY weak and silly episode...one that just seems out of place historically.
