The Production Code Administration (the censors) requested that the "pansy gag" be deleted from the prints. That gag has James Gleason kissing Wallace Beery, who responds with, "Only men belong in this outfit." However, that scene is in the Turner library print.
Filmed on and around Randolph Army Air Field (now Randolph Air Force Base) in San Antonio, TX. Most of the buildings are still in use, but have been remodeled into offices. Flight training is still conducted on the base.
This film's television premiere took place in Philadelphia Monday 3 June 1957 on WFIL (Channel 6) followed by Chicago Saturday 8 June 1957 on WBBM (Channel 2), and by Los Angeles Sunday 23 June 1957 on KTTV (Channel 11); it first aired in Honolulu 17 August 1957 on KHVH (Channel 13), in Miami 8 December 1957 on WCKT (Channel 7), in Norfolk VA 20 December 1957 on WTAR (Channel 3), in Hartford CT 6 March 1958 on WHCT (Channel 18), in San Francisco 20 June 1958 on KGO (Channel 7), in Seattle 14 August 1958 on KING (Channel 5), and in New York City 19 November 1958 on WCBS (Channel 2).
A contemporary source said there were 1,000 airplanes flying in formation and 200 simultaneous parachute jumps.
According to The Film Daily, November 13 1934, Ted Healy was in location in San Antonio for the shooting. He is not in the final version of the film.