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A Yank in the RAF (1941) was a War - Adventure Film directed by Henry King and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and Louis F. Edelman.

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Tim Baker: Well, I haven't looked at another girl since you left.
Carol Brown: Well, I've looked at other men.
Tim Baker: Maybe, but I'll bet you didn't look at them the same way you looked at me that first night in Kansas City. Remember?... You were going east, and I was going west; then we saw each other, and I was going east!
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The scenes with the Spitfires were filmed in the UK. The Spitfires were from 602 squadron under the command of Squadron Leader Sandy Johnstone who were resting in early 1941 in Scotland after fighting in the Battle of Britain.
Working on this movie, a 20th Century Fox studio camera operator for the flying sequences of this film, Otto Kanturek and his uncredited assistant, aerial photographer Jack Parry, were both killed in a military plane crash when a Hurricane fighter collided with their Avro Anson camera plane over Cawston, Norfolk, England on 26 June 1941 and this happened after filming for this picture. Other reports state that according to 20th Century-Fox studio publicity, these events involved the two flying to England to shoot airplane fight sequences and after this they, in a dogfight with the R.A.F., German aircraft shot them down and they were killed.
This movie was based on the real-life activities of American volunteers in the Royal Air Force (R.A.F.) according to an article in the 5 November 1940 'Hollywood Reporter' and the Twentieth Century-Fox Produced Scripts Collection at the UCLA Arts Special Collections Library.
The film utilizes an oft-used storyline of the war movie genre which has two soldiers in love with the same girl.
The movie utilized real airborne combat footage. One the film's posters had a puff-box that read: "The aerial battles in 'A Yank in the R.A.F.' are authentic and were filmed over Germany, France and England with the full cooperation of the British Air Ministry!"
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