Wings of Mercy (1947)
21m
Running Time
January 2, 1947Release Date
Plot.
This short film takes a look at Saskatchewan’s air ambulance service, organized and operated by experienced flyers who provide speedy hospitalization and treatment to the ill and injured. Within 15 minutes of receiving a desperate phone call for help from a remote area, a plane is on its way, guided to the patient with the help of landmarks such as a coal bin or a thin column of smoke on a northern lakeshore.
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Wings of Mercy is a 21-minute 1947 Canadian documentary film made by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), written, directed and produced by the team of Evelyn Spice Cherry and her husband, Lawrence. The film describes the formation and operational use of the Saskatchewan Air Ambulance service. The NFB production was later re-edited into a shorter, 11-minute film, Mercy Flight, released in 1948.