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Air Force (1943) is a WWII combat drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Howard Hawks — a former aviator who brought real authority to the cockpit.
The crew of the B-17 "Mary Ann" arrives over Pearl Harbor to find it already burning after the Japanese attack. Orders push them on toward Manila. Hawks builds the film around the machine as much as the men: John Garfield's gunner, Arthur Kennedy's bombardier, and Harry Carey's crew chief each carry a distinct weight. The actual Flying Fortress used for exterior footage later went down in the Pacific — one of those details that sharpens the film's sense of wartime stakes.
Hawks turned a studio propaganda commission into something steadier and more precise than the genre usually managed. Stream Air Force (1943) online on iFILM.
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