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Winning Your Wings is a american film of genre War directed by John Huston released in USA on 28 may 1942 with James Stewart
Winning Your Wings (1942)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 28 may 1942
Directed by John Huston
OriginUSA
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II, United States Armed Forces in films
Rating61%
Winning Your Wings is a 1942 Allied propaganda film of World War II produced by Warner Bros. Studios for the US Army Air Forces, starring Jimmy Stewart. It was aimed at young men who were thinking about joining the Air Force. Members of the production crew would later form the core of the First Motion Picture Unit.
The film opens with a plane landing on a tarmac and a pilot in full flight gear getting out and walking toward the camera. Once he comes near enough the audience realizes that the pilot is Stewart and he begins his narration: "I want to talk to you all today about one of my favorite subjects, the Army Air Forces." "First, are there any questions?" Then begins a series of vignettes in which young men in different social positions ask about being in the air force, such as a college student, a high school student, and a 26-year-old worker with a family. Stewart assures each that they can join the air force and still be able to keep their various educational, occupational and family commitments. Then the film takes the audience through the average mustering in process, about the medical exams, the cadet training and learning how to fly.
Due to racial segregation polices of the U.S. Army Air Forces, there are no African Americans depicted in the film. Although, at the time of the film's creation, the first black aviators had already begun serving in the military, mainly as a result of the Tuskegee Airmen program.
Actors
James Stewart
(Self)
Peter Graves
Leah Baird
(High Schooler's Mother (uncredited))
Don DeFore
(Gas Station Attendant (uncredited))
Charles Drake
(State College Student (uncredited))
Creighton Hale
(Uncle Ed (uncredited))
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