Jul 25, 1942
20 min
Full-HD

Men of the Sky (1942)

A propaganda film, made in the early months of World War II, dramatizing a new group of U.S. Army Air Force pilots receiving their wings from Lt. General H.H. Arnold. An off-screen narrator introduces four of them to us; we see them before the war, during flight training, and in their first assignments as pilots.

Category

Drama War

Country

United States of America

Companies

Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation

Tod Andrews

Cadet Frank Bickley

Eleanor Parker

Mrs. Frank Bickley

Don DeFore

Cadet Dick Mathews

Ray Montgomery

Cadet Jim Morgan

Ruth Ford

Cadet Gladdens' Sweetheart

Dave Willock

Bob 'Sir Galahad' Gladdens

Owen Crump

Narrator (voice)

Henry H. Arnold

Himself - 'Hap' Arnold

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