Pilot #5 (1943)

Directors

George Sidney

Cast

Alan Baxter, Ava Gardner, Edward Fielding, Franchot Tone, Frank Ferguson, Frank Puglia, Gene Kelly, Howard Freeman, Marsha Hunt, Peter Lawford, Sara Haden, Steven Geray, Van Johnson, William Tannen

The story

In May 1942, an Allied base on Java is bombed by Japanese aircraft, with another attack expected the next day. With only one working fighter and five American pilots who all volunteer to fly it, Dutch commander Major Eichel (Steven Geray) chooses George Collins (Franchot Tone) because he has come up with a daring plan: attach a bomb rack to the fighter to bomb the Japanese aircraft carrier from which the attack came. After George takes off, Eichel asks the other pilots to tell him about George.

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