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Release Date: 2012

Cast: Ward Wood, Arthur Kennedy, Stanley Ridges, Gig Young, Charles Drake, Henry DeWitt Carey II, George Tobias, James Brown, Willard Robertson, John Ridgely, John Garfield

Categories: Movies, Black-And-White, War Film, Drama Film, Action/Adventure, Action, Combat Films

Air Force is a 1943 war film directed by Howard Hawks. It starred John Garfield, John Ridgely, Harry Carey, and Gig Young as crew members on a B-17 Flying Fortress named the Mary-Ann. An uncredited William Faulkner wrote the emotional deathbed scene for John Ridgely, the pilot of the bomber. Made in the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor attack, it was one of the first of the patriotic films of World War II, often characterized as a propaganda film. December 6, 1941, with the United States still at peace, the Mary-Ann, a B-17D bomber and its crew, fly with the rest of their unarmed squadron... MORE

Air Force is a 1943 war film directed by Howard Hawks. It starred John Garfield, John Ridgely, Harry Carey, and Gig Young as crew members on a B-17 Flying Fortress named the Mary-Ann. An uncredited William Faulkner wrote the emotional deathbed scene for John Ridgely, the pilot of the bomber. Made in the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor attack, it was one of the first of the patriotic films of World War II, often characterized as a propaganda film. December 6, 1941, with the United States still at peace, the Mary-Ann, a B-17D bomber and its crew, fly with the rest of their unarmed squadron from Hamilton Field, near San Francisco, to Hickam Field at Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii. The crew includes a disaffected gunner, Sergeant Winocki (John Garfield), who washed out of flight school at Randolph Field, Texas in 1938 as an aviation cadet after a mid-air collision in which pilot, Flying Cadet Driscoll was killed. Quincannon was the Flight Instructor who requested the board dismiss Winocki. Later, in the Philippines, Major Mallory recalls training Quincannon at Kelly Field, Texas. The navigator and bombadier also washed out of pilot training. Master Sergeant Robbie White (Harry LESS