Air Force(1943)

Just a heads up if any one is interested – Film4(Freeview 15)/12.40pm – Air Force

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Air Force is a 1943 black-and-white Warner Bros. American war film directed by Howard Hawks and starring John Garfield, John Ridgely, Harry Carey, and Gig Young as crew members on a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress named the Mary-Ann. An uncredited William Faulkner wrote the emotional deathbed scene for actor John Ridgely, the pilot of the B-17. 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

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