Movie Details
Theatrical Release:March 13th, 1944
Original Language:English
Production Companies:First Motion Picture Unit United States Army Air Forces
Fighter Combat Formation Attacks and Escorts (1944)
DirectorOtho Lovering
Plot
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 battletested 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
