Flying Fortress

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Richard Greene and Carla Lehmann in Flying Fortress (1942)

Wartime drama of bomber crews based in England.Wartime drama of bomber crews based in England.Wartime drama of bomber crews based in England.

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5.4/10

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Richard Greene

James 'Jim Spence Jr.

Carla Lehmann

Sydney Kelly

Betty Stockfeld

Lady DeBorah 'Debbie' Ottershaw
(as Betty Stockfield)

Donald Stewart

Mr. William 'Sky' Kelly

Basil Radford

Captain Wilkinson

Charles Heslop

Herrington

Sydney King

Lord 'Squeakum' Ottershaw
(as Sidney King)

Joss Ambler

Sheepshead
(uncredited)

Robert Beatty

Connor
(uncredited)

John Boxer

Meterologist
(uncredited)

Peter Croft

Radio Operator
(uncredited)

Tommy Duggan

Hubert Gregg

Fire Controller
(uncredited)

William Hartnell

Gaylord Parker
(uncredited)

Kenneth Henry

Waiter
(uncredited)

Billy Holland

Group Commander
(uncredited)

Bill Kennedy

Manhattan News Radio Announcer
(uncredited)

Andreas Malandrinos

Maitre d' at Hotel Monopole
(uncredited)

Director
- Walter Forde
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Trivia
The heroic engine repair shown in the movie was based on an actual event. A Royal New Zealand Air Force pilot, Sergeant James Allen Ward, earned the Victoria Cross after he climbed onto the wing of his airplane on 7 July 1941 to smother the burning engine.

The plane is the strongest character

This movie is a mixture of the B-17 Flying Fortress, an inane class struggle, and superficial love interests. The are some exceptional scenes of the damage caused during the first London blitz of World War Two, yet little more of interest. The real star of the film is the B-17, with a typical bombing raid over Berlin, a propaganda target for 1942. It is an interesting docudrama of the early B-17's use during the war, so early that the navigator uses celestial fixes. Don't bail out on this movie without seeing it first.