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Gabin and two other French officers are captured in the early days of the war and, after being treated with extreme courtesy by the members of a German fighter squadron at the front, are shuttled through a long series of PW camps inside Germany. The film deals with their fate, the death of one of them, and the subsequent escape of the other...
...politicians withdrew. They knew that a Papagos government would be a military dictatorship, that the U.S. and Britain would disapprove. Lord Mountbatten, who was commanding a British cruiser squadron in the Mediterranean, went ashore and gave his cousin, King Paul, some family advice...
Quoting your review of the movie Fighter Squadron [TIME, Dec. 6]: "When O'Brien parachutes from a crippled plane, his wingman brashly lands in enemy territory to rescue him. This threadbare sort of hokum is fairly hard to take...
...Exum, then deputy commander of the 325th Fighter Group based at Lesina Airdrome in Italy, while returning from a fighter sweep over German-infested, mountainous Hungary, brashly landed his P-31D, wheels down, on a handkerchief of flat land bisected by a deep ditch, to rescue an uninjured squadron mate who had crash-landed his ship with an overheated engine...
...Fighter Squadron (Warner) is a war movie about U.S. flyers who operated from bases in England. It is a moderately successful blend of Hollywood histrionics and actual combat films from World War II. Its producers made a sincere effort to mix the two elements. The combat footage was used as a core for the story, rather than dragged in as a touch of "realism." The all-male cast is given convincing all-male dialogue, and there is a painless minimum of comic relief. Above all, there is skillful exploitation of the fierce beauty of aerial battle photography...