Fighter Combat Formation: Attacks and Escorts
Overview
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.
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Crew
- Director
- Otho Lovering
- Production
- First Motion Picture Unit, United States Army Air Forces
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Who directed Fighter Combat Formation: Attacks and Escorts?
Fighter Combat Formation: Attacks and Escorts was directed by Otho Lovering.
When was Fighter Combat Formation: Attacks and Escorts released?
Fighter Combat Formation: Attacks and Escorts was released in 1944.
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