Owen Crump wrote and narrated this two-reel documentary short about the Army Air Corps in beautiful Technicolor. It's all about the boys next door -- ordinary Joes like Tod Andrews, Dom Defore, and Ray Montgomery -- who leave their pretty but ordinary girls next door like Eleanor Parker and Ruth Ford. They leave their ordinary jobs -- contract players for Warner Brothers, but supposedly working at banks and colleges -- to have their wings pinned on by Hap Arnold and sent off to ferry supplies to another ordinary Joe like Doug MacArthur and bomb the tar out of anyone who'd threaten barefoot kids and their Coca-Cola, because nothing can stop the Army Air Corps!
It's a recruiting short for the Air Corps, offered in finest gung ho fashion by director Breezy Eason. The Technicolor is quite lovely on this short. It's a fine document of its time and the nation at war.
It's a recruiting short for the Air Corps, offered in finest gung ho fashion by director Breezy Eason. The Technicolor is quite lovely on this short. It's a fine document of its time and the nation at war.