When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950)

Directors

John Ford

Cast

Dan Dailey, Corinne Calvet, Colleen Townsend, William Demarest

The story

William "Bill" Kluggs is the first in his hometown of Punxatawney, West Virginia, to enlist in the Army Air Forces after the attack on Pearl Harbor, making his father Herman, mother Gertrude, girlfriend Marge Fettles and the entire town proud. Willie tries to become a pilot but fails, although he is so proficient at aerial gunnery that, rather than being sent to Europe to fight, he becomes an instructor and is assigned to a base near his hometown. After two years in the same place, he is branded a coward by the townsfolk, even though he continually requests a transfer to combat duty.

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