영국 폭격단은 공습작전으로 많은 사상자를 낸다. 전투기 파일럿 밀러 대위는 비밀 폭격단으로 배치되고 대원들의 나태한 군기 때문에 사사건건 충돌한다. 드디어 베를린 공습 작전이 떨어지고 출 격하지만 독일군의 저항으로 대규모 공중전이 벌어지는데… 진정한 전쟁 영웅을 만난다!
Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber offensive. The film centres around Pilot Officer Peter Penrose, fresh out of a training unit, who joins the squadron, and quickly discovers about life during war time. He falls for Iris, a young girl who lives at the local hotel, but he becomes disillusioned about marriage, when the squadron commander dies in a raid, and leaves his wife, the hotel manageress, with a young son to bring up. As the war progresses, Penross comes to terms that he has survived, while others have been killed.
A documentary propaganda film produced by the U.S. Army Signal Corps about the Aleutian Islands Campaign during World War II. The film opens with a map showing the strategic importance of the island, and the thrust of the 1942 Japanese offensive into Midway and Dutch Harbor. Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.