The Rear Gunner
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26mins
Directed by
Ray Enright,
Starring
Burgess Meredith,
Ronald Reagan,
Tom Neal,
Dane Clark
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Documentary-style drama on training of aerial rear gunners in World War II. Private PeeWee Williams, a Kansas farm boy, transforms his home-grown shooting skills into those necessary to an aerial gunner in the tail turret of an American bomber. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.
