Bombardier (1943)
May 14, 1943Release Date
Bombardier (1943)
May 14, 1943Release Date
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Pat O’Brien
Chick Davis
Randolph Scott
Buck Oliver
Anne Shirley
Burton Hughes
Eddie Albert
Tom Hughes
Walter Reed
Jim Carter
Robert Ryan
Joe Connors
Barton MacLane
Archie Dixon
Leonard Strong
Japanese Officer
Richard Martin
Chito Rafferty
Eugene L. Eubank
Eugene L. Eubank
Russell Wade
Paul Harris
James Newill
Captain Rand
John Miljan
Charlie Craig
Charles Russell
Instructor
Martin Rackin
Writer
Murray Alper
Little Boy
Stanley Andrews
Congressman
Joan Barclay
Buck's Secretary
Hugh Beaumont
Soldier
Abner Biberman
Japanese Sergeant
Charles D. Brown
Officer at Briefing
John Calvert
Calvert the Magician
James Craven
Major Morris
Eddie Dew
Chick's B-17 Co-Pilot
Bruce Edwards
Lieutenant Ellis
Martin Faust
Soldier
Walter Fenner
Congressman
Paul Fix
Big Guy
George Ford
Co-Pilot
Erford Gage
Meyer
Bud Geary
Sergeant
Kirby Grant
Pilot
Eddie Hall
Douglas A-20 Crewman
Neil Hamilton
Colonel
Herbert Heyes
General
Russell Hoyt
Photographer
Lloyd Ingraham
Colonel
John James
Buck's B-17 Co-Pilot
Joe King
General Barnes
Mike Lally
Co-Pilot
Harold Landon
Pete Jordan
Warren Mace
Co-Pilot
Wayne McCoy
Instructor
Robert Middlemass
Officer
Bert Moorhouse
Congressman
Flower Parry
Magic Show Spectator
Paul Parry
Captain Driscoll
Edward Peil Sr.
Officer
Joey Ray
Navigator
Cyril Ring
Captain Randall
John Sheehan
Congressman
Lee Shumway
Officer
Margie Stewart
Mamie Foster
Larry Wheat
Doctor
Dick Winslow
Navigator
Allen Wood
Army Clerk
Charles Flynn
Radio Operator
Richard Wallace
Director
John Twist
Writer
Lambert Hillyer
Writer
Robert Aldrich
Second Assistant Director
Robert Fellows
Producer
Nicholas Musuraca
Director of Photography
Robert Wise
Editor
Media.
Details.
Release DateMay 14, 1943
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 39m
Content RatingNR
Filming LocationsNew Mexico, United States
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Bombardier is a 1943 film war drama about the training program for bombardiers of the United States Army Air Forces. The film stars Pat O'Brien and Randolph Scott. Bombardier was nominated for an Oscar in 1944 for the special effects used in the film. It was largely filmed at Kirtland Army Air Field, New Mexico, site of the first bombardier training school.
The film follows the training of six bombardier candidates, seen through the differences between the two USAAF pilots in charge of their training over the efficacy of precision bombing.
Brigadier General Eugene L. Eubank, commander of the first heavy bombardment group of the U.S. Army Air Forces to see combat in World War II, introduces the film with the statement:
I want you to know about a new kind of American soldier, the most important of all our fighting men today. He is most important because upon him, finally, depends the success of any mission in which he participates. The greatest bombing plane in the world, with its combat crew, takes him into battle, through weather, through enemy opposition, just so he may have 30 seconds over the target. In those 30 seconds, he must vindicate the greatest responsibility ever placed upon an individual soldier in line of duty. I want you to know about him, and about those who had the faith and vision and foresight to bring him into being, to fit him for his task, long months before our war began.