Hell Divers

Hell Divers is a 1932 American film starring Wallace Beery and Clark Gable as a pair of competing chief petty officers in early naval aviation. The film, made with the cooperation of the United States Navy, features considerable footage of flight operations on board the Navys second aircraft carrier, the USSSaratoga, including dramatic shots of takeoffs and landings filmed from the Curtiss F8C4 Helldiver dive bombers after which the movie was named. Note

Chief Petty Officer Windy Riker Beery Noteis a veteran aerial gunner of a Navy Helldiver dive bomber and the leading chief of Fighting Squadron One, about to go to Panama aboard the USSSaratoga aircraft carrier. He loses his fiveyear title of champion machine gunner after young C.P.O. Steve Nelson Gable joins the squadron. Windy, notorious for using his fists to enforce discipline, is charged by local police with wrecking a Turkish bath. Windy is saved from arrest, however, when Lieutenant Commander Jack Griffin Miljan, skipper of the squadron, intervenes on his behalf. Griffin and his secondincommand, Lieutenant Duke Johnson Nagle, agree that Nelson is the best candidate to replace Windy as he ponders retirement.The chiefs engage in friendly rivalry until the squadron practices a new divebombing technique and Steve becomes a hero, saving the base from being accidentally bombed by climbing out on the wing of his dive bomber to hold in place a bomb that failed to release. Feelings turn bitter when Steve contradicts Windys explanation of the accident and Windy punches him in resentment. Windy is dressed down by Duke when the officer sees the punch. When Steves sweetheart, Ann Mitchell Jordan, visits him, he proposes marriage to her, but Windy uses a practical joke to get even with Steve. Unaware that Ann is Steves fiancee and not simply a girl he is trying to impress, Windy bribes an old acquaintance, Lulu Prevost, to pretend to be Steves outraged lover. Ann leaves upset and will not listen to Steves denials. ........

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