Screenwriting team for "AIR FORCE" (1943) employed by Director Howard Hawks : Dudley Nichols, W. Faulkner, Leah Baird

Notable director Howard Hawks worked closely

with the Army's Air Force to make this "insider"

picture of the bomber crew as an ensemble picture.

The pet dog "Tripoli" was played by the son of the

Acting Cairn Terrier "Terry" who played TOTO in 

the classic "The Wizard of Oz" (1939) director, Victor Fleming.

Among Screenwriters for "AIR FORCE" was

Yes, that Southern Novelist / Nobel Prize Laureate

William Faulkner of Oxford, Mississippi

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Air_Force begins with the 

arrival on Dec. 7, 1941 of

the Army bomber Mary Ann

in the midst of the Japanese

Air Force sneak attack bombing

of Navy port Pearl Harbor,

territory of Hawa'ii