National Archives Identifier: 2769
Local Identifier: 18AF100
Title: The Rear Gunner
Catalog: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/2769

From: Series: Motion Picture Films from the "Air Force Production" Program Series, 1942 1944
Record Group 18: Records of the Army Air Forces

Scope & Content: This film is a documentarystyle drama on the training of an aerial rear gunner in World War II. Actor Burgess Meredith stars as Private PeeWee Williams, a Kansas farm boy who, through rigorous training, transformed his homegrown shooting skills into those necessary to an aerial gunner in the tail turret of an American bomber. The film also features Ronald Reagan in a supporting role.

This item was produced or created: 1943

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