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Flight Lieutenant (aka Flight Captain and He's My Old Man) is a 1942 American drama war film starring Pat O'Brien as Sam Doyle, a disgraced commercial pilot who works to regain the respect of his son against the backdrop of World War II.
The Adventures of Martin Eden (1942) Flight Lieutenant (1942) City Without Men (1943) The Boy from Stalingrad (1943) Faithful in My Fashion (1946) Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1947) Millie's Daughter (1947) Sword of the Avenger (1948) Shadow of the Eagle (1950) Fugitive Lady (1951) The Golden Hawk (1952) Scarlet Angel (1952) The Pathfinder (1952 ...
Date Of Action: June 4, 1942 to June 6, 1942 The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Cross to Lieutenant Commander Richard Halsey Best (NSN: 0-71601), United States Navy, for extraordinary heroism in operations against the enemy while serving as Pilot of a carrier-based Navy Dive Bomber and Squadron ...
Propaganda film: Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject: The News Parade of the Year 1942: Eugene W. Castle: Short documentary: Prelude to War: Frank Capra: Documentary: The first of Capra's Why We Fight film series Sex Hygiene: Otto Brower, John Ford: George Reeves, Richard Derr: Docudrama: We Are the Marines: Louis de Rochemont: War ...
One of the British pilots taken prisoner, Flight Lieutenant Gordon Brettell, was later to be shot as one of the escapees in The Great Escape from Stalag Luft III in 1944. [4] Personnel of No. 121 Squadron look on as three Spitfire Vbs come in to land at RAF Rochford in Essex, after a fighter sweep over northern France during August 1942.
Flight lieutenant is the most common officer rank in the RAF; in April 2013, for example, there were 8,230 RAF officers, of whom 3,890 (47.3%) were flight lieutenants. [8] In RAF informal usage, a flight lieutenant is sometimes referred to as a "flight lieuy". A Flight Lieutenant's starting salary is £42,008.48 as of 2019. [9]
Wheeler was born on 27 September 1903 in the village of Bitterley near Ludlow, Shropshire. [citation needed] He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge and then commissioned as a Pilot Officer in the Royal Air Force in 1925 where he trained as an engineer and pilot.
[11] [12] Now holding the rank of acting flight lieutenant, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) early the following month; the citation, published in The London Gazette, read: This officer has participated in a large number of operational sorties. He has at all times displayed great dash and determination.