Name: Air Force - George Raft - Harry Carey - Lux Radio Theater
Uploaded: 2021-06-26T00:42:57+00:00
Duration: 59 min 45 s
Description: On December 6, 1941, at Hamilton Field, near San Francisco, the crew of the Mary-Ann, an Army Air Corps B-17D, are ordered across the Pacific to Hawaii, one of a flight of nine Flying Fortress bombers

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On December 6, 1941, at Hamilton Field, near San Francisco, the crew of the Mary-Ann, an Army Air Corps B-17D, are ordered across the Pacific to Hawaii, one of a flight of nine Flying Fortress bombers.

With the United States still neutral, the Mary-Ann and the other B-17s fly, fully equipped except for ammunition, to Hickam Field. They arrive on December 7, 1941, during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.[Note 2] In its aftermath, the tired crew is ordered, with little rest, to fly first to Wake Island, and then to Clark Field in the Philippines, both also under heavy Japanese attack. En route, the crew listens to President Franklin D. Roosevelt ask Congress for a declaration of war. They take along two passengers: fighter pilot Lieutenant Thomas "Tex" Rader and a small dog, "Tripoli", the Marines' mascot on Wake Island.

Air Force is a 1943 American World War II aviation film directed by Howard Hawks and starring John Garfield, John Ridgely, Gig Young, Arthur Kennedy, and Harry Carey. The film was distributed by Warner Bros. and produced by Hal B. Wallis and Jack L. Warner. Made in the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor attack.

The film's storyline revolves around an actual incident that occurred on December 7, 1941. An aircrew ferries an unarmed 1940 "D" model Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber, named the Mary-Ann, across the Pacific to the United States Army Air Corps base at Hickam Field. They fly right into the middle of the Japanese air attack on Pearl Harbor and the beginning of America's major involvement in the Second World War

Originally Broadcast 7/12/1943

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