All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 The Rear Gunner

    Produced by the U.S. Army Air Forces in cooperation with Warner Brothers; featuring Lieutenants Burgess Meredith and Ronald Reagan; directed by Ray Enright. The first few minutes of the film are affected by recurring image washout, which affects the soundtrack as well. The source of the problem is the original print since the soundtrack fade occurs about a second after the picture fade, matching the 20-frame sound advance on 35mm film. (B/W, 1943, 26 min.)

  • S01E02 The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress

    Presented by the War Department; distributed by Paramount Pictures; directed by Lieutenant Colonel William Wyler. (Technicolor from a 16mm original, 1944, 43 min.)

  • S01E03 Bomber: A Defense Report on Film

    Presented by the Office of Production Management. Poet Carl Sandburg wrote the suitably bellicose narration for this film on the production of B-26 bombers. (B/W, 1941, 10 min.)

  • S01E04 Thunderbolt

    Presented by Monogram Pictures; directed by Lieutenant Colonel William Wyler and Captain John Sturges; introduced by James Stewart. (Technicolor from a 16mm original, produced in 1944, released theatrically in 1947, 43 min.)

  • S01E05 Combat America

    Presented by the U.S. Army Air Forces; featuring 1st Lieutenant Clark Gable. (Technicolor from a 16mm original, 1945, 62 min.)

  • S01E06 Expansion to Air Power

    The original classification of this film was Restricted. Presented by the Statistical Control Division, Management Control, Army Air Forces. A summary of the "story of the Army Air Forces from June 1939 to December 1943." (B/W, 1944, 43 min.)

  • S01E07 Army Air Forces: Pacific

    An Army Air Forces film. Introduced by General H. H. (Hap) Arnold. (B/W, 1944, 18 min.)

  • S01E08 Air War in Europe

    Presented by the Army Air Forces Motion Picture Service Detachment. Newsreel-style summary of recent air operations. (B/W, 1943, 14 min.)

  • S01E09 AAF Report

    Prepared for the U.S. Army Air Forces by the Office of Strategic Services. Official motion-picture report from, and introduced by, General "Hap" Arnold on the accomplishments of the AAF since Pearl Harbor. (B/W, 1944, 41 min.)

  • S01E10 The Fight for the Sky: Our Fighter Pilots versus the Luftwaffe in Western Europe

    Produced by the First Motion Picture Unit, Army Air Forces; presented by the 8th Air Force Fighter Command. Concentrates on the accomplishments of the P-38 "Lightning," P-47 "Thunderbolt," and P-51 "Mustang" fighters. Features General James Doolittle. (B/W, 1945, 20 min.)

  • S01E11 The Thunderbolts: "Ramrod" to Emden!

    Presented by the First Army Air Forces Combat Film Detachment; produced by the U.S. Army Pictorial Service (Signal Corps) and the Eighth Air Force Photographic Section. The story of one operation in the Battle of Germany as Thunderbolts of the 56th Fighter Group accompany a bombing mission to Emden. (B/W, 1943, 33 min.)