Air Force (1943)
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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