(Fighter Combat Formation: Attacks and Escorts)

Content: An ace fighter pilot captain expects to get leave, but instead is ordered to Washington, where a colonel explains that mounting casualties among fighter pilots require new, battle-tested tactics in combat. The captain sets out to train a group of young and relatively inexperienced pilots in the new methods. Fighter planes are used as both attack aircraft and as escorts for heavy bombers, and a variety of flight patterns and defensive and offensive maneuvers are explained to the young pilots.

Countries:

United States of America

Genres:

Documentary,

War

Runtime:

14 minutes

Year:

1944

Directors:

Otho Lovering

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Production companies:

First Motion Picture Unit, United States Army Air Forces

Actors:

Colonel

Captain

Crews:

Director