The Lost Chronicles of Young Indiana Jones

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April 7, 2008

The War Years

Episode #38 "Le Havre, June 1916"
Indy's Age: 16
Subject: The Law
Character: Jean Renoir; Donald Thompson
Theme: Trust

Synopsis: Indy and Remy are at basic training in the Belgian Army at Le Havre, France. Their sergeant is a very tough, nefarious character who gives all the men a difficult time, but he is particularly abusive to Indy, which angers Remy. At the end of training, the men are celebrating and drinking at a bar, and the sergeant is later found dead. Remy is charged with his murder. Indy defends him at his court martial.

Episode #39 "Ravenelle, Early February 1917"*
Indy's Age: 17
Subject: Flying
Character: Charles Nungesser, Manfred von Richthofen
Theme: [none listed]

Synopsis: Indy and Remy have joined the Belgian Espionage Corps. Remy is sent to Brussels, and Indy is assigned as an aerial reconnaissance photographer to th air base of the Lafayette Escadrille (American flying unit). He has some adventures with Charles Nungesser, a French flying ace, who is somewhat of a daredevil. Indy falls temporarily into German hands, and relays a challenge from Baron Von Richthofen to Nungesser for an air duel. Indy is unwillingly brought along and is involved in an aerial dogfight between the two pilots. On another reconnaissance flight, the American unit is attacked by the "Flying Circus," resulting in many casualties.

Note: This episode was produced, along with #40, as Attack of the Hawkmen, available on Volume 2 of The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones on DVD.

Episode #40 "Ahlhorn, Late February 1917"*
Indy's Age: 17
Subject: Ethics
Character: Charles Nungesser, Anthony H.G. Fokker, Villehad Forssman
Theme: [none listed]

Synopsis: Indy is sent on a spy mission into Germany to persuade Fokker (who is designing planes for the Germans) to work with the Allies. He takes off in an airplane flown by Nungesser, and they are forced to make a landing in occupied Belgium, where they are assisted in fixing and refueling their plane by the Belgian underground (the White Lady spy organization). They take off again, and Indy is parachuted into Germany. He then makes his way to Ahlhorn on a train. He overhears Fokker discussing plans for the Poll Giant Triplane (which is able to cross the Atlantic) that Forssman has designed. He is unsuccessful in persuading Fokker to assist the Allies,

Note: This episode was produced (though with a modified storyline), along with #39, as Attack of the Hawkmen, available on Volume 2 of The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones on DVD.

Episode #41 "Moscow, July 1919"
Indy's Age: 18
Subject: Political Science
Character: Sidney Reilly, Colonel De Vertement, Rene Marchard, Lenin, Trotsky
Theme: [none listed]

Synopsis: Indy is working in French Intelligence in Moscow on the eve of the Allied invasion at Archangel in North Russia. He is assigned to assist Sidney Reilly, who is working with counter-revolutionaries to try to destabilize the Bolsheviks from within. Indy encounters Rosa, whom he met in Russia in 1917; she is also working with Rielly. Indy and Reilly have dangerous encounters with the Cheka (a special commission to deal with counter-revolution) in an attempt to rescue a general who has been arrested. Reilly has a secret plan unknown to the British, French and Americans to take over Moscow, but Lenin is then shot, and all the conspirators must flee for their lives. Rosa helps Indy escape.

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