Air Force - Original Trailer 1943

On December 6, 1941, a squadron of nine B-17 bombers takes off for Hickam Field, HI. The crew of the Mary Ann, including two new men, assistant radio man Private Chester (Ray Montgomery) and gunner Sergeant Joe Winocki (John Garfield), assembles for the flight, and in the first 20 minutes, the movie reveals certain things about the crew: the shadowy past of one, the mother of another, and the wife of a third; two of them are good friends with the sister of McMartin (Arthur Kennedy), the bombardier, who lives in Honolulu; the son of the senior member of the crew, Sgt. White (Harry Carey Sr.), is a pilot stationed at Clark Field in the Philippines. Then more characters make entrances: the aircraft commander Quincannon (John Ridgely); Weinberg (George Tobias), a Jewish mechanic from New York; and a man from a farm in the upper Midwest -- they all represent a broad cross-section of America as it saw itself, and the "regular guys" in the Army Air Force as it existed in 1941. The flight proceeds without incident. Winocki, an embittered, washed-out flight school candidate who accidentally killed another pilot, is about to leave the service when the weather report from Hickam Field is interrupted, and the radio man begins picking up transmissions in Japanese. The Mary Ann and the rest of the squadron fly right into the middle of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor unarmed and out of gas, and nearly crack up landing on an emergency field; no sooner do they make repairs than the crew comes under attack, and the plane takes off and makes for Hickam Field, which they find a flaming shambles. They fly on to the Philippines, stopping at Wake Island just long enough to meet a few members of the doomed Marine garrison, taking their company mascot, a dog, with them. At Clark Field, the Mary Ann and her crew finally go into action against the enemy, flying in alone against a Japanese invasion force; Quincannon is mortally wounded in the brief action, which leaves the plane damaged seemingly beyond repair. The remaining crew won't give up the plane, however, even when ordered to abandon and destroy her; they get the bomber off just ahead of the advancing Japanese, and survive to help bring retribution to the invading fleet and the Japanese empire. John Ridgely - Capt. Michael A. Quincannon Gig Young - Lt. Xavier Bill Williams Arthur Kennedy - Lt. Tommy McMartin Harry Carey - Sgt. R. L. White Charles Drake - Lt. M. W. Hauser John Garfield - Sgt. John B. Winocki George Tobias - Cpl. B. B. Weinberg Ward Wood - Cpl. Gus Peterson Ray Montgomery - Private H. W. Chester James Brown - Lt. T. A. Rader Willard Robertson - Col. Moroni Olsen - Col. Blake Edward S. Brophy - Sgt. J.J. Callahan Richard Lane - Maj. W.G. Roberts Bill Crago - Lt. Moran Faye Emerson - Susan McMartin Addison Richards - Maj. Daniels James Flavin - Maj. A.M. Bagley Ann Doran - Mary Quincannon Dorothy Peterson - Mrs. Chester Murray Alper - Corporal of Demolition Squad Lynne Baggett - Nurse Leah Baird - 2nd nurse Henry Blair - Quincannon's son Rand Brooks - Co-pilot James Bush - 2nd control officer Warren Douglas - Control officer Ruth Ford - Nurse Ross Ford - 2nd lieutenant William Forrest - Jack Harper Sol (Saul) Gorss - Sergeant William Hopper - Sergeant Marjorie Hoshelle - Nurse James Millican - Marine with dog Tom Neal - Marine George Neise - Hickam Field Officer Ted Offenbecker George Offerman - Ground crewman Stanley Ridges - Maj. Mallory Walter Sande - Joe Theodore Von Eltz - 1st lieutenant