A very authentic look at an American Bomber Group serving in England doing daylight bombings over occupied France and Germany in 1942 and onwards. The movie uses authentic WWII combat footage for the flight battles, and since the movie was made just after WWII the quality of the film isn’t very different from the reels from WWII (unlike modern movies that uses authentic footage that often just looks odd and out of place).

The plot itself is just as authentic, many survivors that took part in these daylight bombings have said that this is the only movie that describes their war effort correctly.

They US commanders wanted to know how much the soldiers could take, how many missions they could fly, how many days in a row they could stand being fired upon and seeing their friend perish. According to IMDb this is one of the first Hollywood movies to deal with the physiological effect the war had on soldiers, and I must say that it does it perfectly. There are some really emotional moments, but I don’t want to give anything away.