You can tell the actual fliers in this move because they speak their lines in a dull tone: Major General Harmon, who reads his own speech given to the graduates of the the Army Air Corps training program as if he has bad eyes and can't see them clearly on a blackboard, and Captain Hewitt T. "Shorty" Wheless. Well, he says "Yes, sir" well enough. Perhaps he had been practicing it.
This Warner Brothers Oscar-winning short is about Captain Wheless, his training as an Army Air Corps pilot and the details of the mission for which he won the Distinguished Service Cross, as narrated by Ronald Reagan and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. I suspect it was Roosevelt who won the Academy Award, even if he participated through a transcription of one of his Fire Chats.
This Warner Brothers Oscar-winning short is about Captain Wheless, his training as an Army Air Corps pilot and the details of the mission for which he won the Distinguished Service Cross, as narrated by Ronald Reagan and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. I suspect it was Roosevelt who won the Academy Award, even if he participated through a transcription of one of his Fire Chats.