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Fighter Combat Formation: Attacks and Escorts (1944)
Directed by Otho Lovering
Documentary, War · 14m
An ace fighter pilot captain expects to get leave, but instead is ordered to Washington, where a colonel explains that mounting casualties among fighter pilots require new, battle-tested tactics in combat. The captain sets out to train a group of young and relatively inexperienced pilots in the new methods. Fighter planes are used as both attack aircraft and as escorts for heavy bombers, and a variety of flight patterns and defensive and offensive maneuvers are explained to the young pilots.
Cast
William Forrest
Ronald Reagan
Crew
- Director
- Otho Lovering
Details
- Release date
- 1944-03-13
- Runtime
- 14m
- Genres
- Documentary, War
- Original language
- EN
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- First Motion Picture Unit, United States Army Air Forces