Thunder Birds (1942 film)

Thunder Birds 1942 subtitled Soldiers of the Air and also known as Thunderbirds is a Technicolor film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Gene Tierney, Preston Foster, and John Sutton. It features aerial photography and location filming at an actual Arizona training base of the United States Army Air Forces named Thunderbird Field No.during World War II.

Soon after the US enters World War II, Steve Britt Preston Foster, a former World War I flying ace, arrives at Thunderbird Field, looking for a job as a civilian primary flight instructor. The base commander is an old friend, Lt. Col. Mac MacDonald Jack Holt, working with Squadron Leader Barrett Reginald Denny, himself a WWI aerial observer, who is in charge of the Royal Air Force cadets at the base.Steve says he wants the job because he is too old for combat and the war will be won by pilots trained on bases like Thunderbird, but it is soon clear that he chose this base because his former girlfriend, Kay Saunders Gene Tierney, lives nearby with her grandfather, retired Colonel Cyrus Gramps Saunders George Barbier, also a close friend of Steves. ........

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