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The Rear Gunner
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.
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- Apr 10, 1943
- 26m
- English
- Ray Enright
- Edwin Gilbert
- Released
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U.S. Army Air Forces
