Fighter Combat Formation: Attacks and Escorts

Fighter Combat Formation: Attacks and Escorts — Plot

An ace fighter pilot captain expects to get leave, but instead is ordered to Washington, where a colonel explains that mounting casualties among fighter pilots require new, battle-tested tactics in combat. The captain sets out to train a group of young and relatively inexperienced pilots in the new methods. Fighter planes are used as both attack aircraft and as escorts for heavy bombers, and a variety of flight patterns and defensive and offensive maneuvers are explained to the young pilots.

• Release date
• March 13, 1944
• Runtime
• 14 min
• Genres
• Documentary, War
• Director
• Otho Lovering

Fighter Combat Formation: Attacks and Escorts — Cast

William Forrest Colonel Ronald Reagan Captain