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Wing and a Prayer, The Story of Carrier X (also known as Queen of the Flat Tops and Torpedo Squadron Eight) is a black-and-white 1944 war film about the heroic crew of an American aircraft carrier in the desperate early days of World War II in the Pacific theater, directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Don Ameche, Dana Andrews and William Eythe.
During the Yorktown’s shakedown cruise, a film crew captured footage for a Hollywood movie, A Wing and a Prayer: The Story of Carrier X. The film told a fictionalized reimaging of the Battle of Coral Sea and Battle of Midway.
A Japanese submarine targets Carrier X with a torpedo, but before the weapon can destroy the ship, Cunningham goes up in a catapult bomber plane and dives into the ocean to intercept the torpedo. Grateful for Cunningham's sacrifice, the sailors work hard to repair the carrier's disabled flight deck.
- Henry Hathaway, Henry Weinberger
- Don Ameche
Mar 5, 2009 · The setting was a torpedo-bombing run made against Japanese ships in the Pacific by carrier-based planes, not a bombing raid launched against German land targets from an airfield in England.
The plot of Wing and a Prayer centers around a conflict between Dana Andrews head of a torpedo squadron assigned to the carrier and Don Ameche, a stern by the book Naval commander in charge of the airplanes and their crews.
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Wing and a Prayer, The Story of Carrier X (also known as Queen of the Flat Tops and Torpedo Squadron Eight) is a black-and-white 1944 war film about the heroic crew of an American aircraft carrier in the desperate early days of World War II in the Pacific theater, directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Don Ameche, Dana Andrews and William Eythe.
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Henry Hathaway’s action drama is the story of the brave crew of an American aircraft carrier during WWII as it joined the Battle of Midway. Starring Don Ameche, Dana Andrews and William Eythe.
