Soldiers with Wings
1939 19mDocumentary
A warning to Americans not to be complacent about the perils of war in the air, this film showcases the results of the $200 million programme for aircraft construction and pilot recruitment. Multiple shots of gleaming B17 bombers, bristling with machine guns, and equipped with state of the art automatic bomb sights, contrast starkly with footage of ageing Amiot 143 bombers on the airfields of France, so that although the intended message is that Europe is prepared but America is not, it almost seems that the opposite is true.