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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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According to Bill Collins in his book 'Bill Collins presents The Golden Years of Hollywood', Darryl F. Zanuck was "very pro-British" and he wanted to make a movie about what was happening in England and Europe in regards to the Second World War.
The 'Hollywood Reporter's' news articles reported that this movies' stars, Betty Grable and Tyrone Power, attended this picture's Hollywood Premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre where an estimated ten thousand people watched on.
This movie was made prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Sunday 7 December 1941. The movie was first released at its world premiere on 26 September 1941, about 2½ months prior to the Pearl Harbor attack.
The film utilizes an oft-used storyline of the war movie genre which has two soldiers in love with the same girl.
According to the book 'Bill Collins presents The Golden Years of Hollywood' by Bill Collins, "Some filming was done in America. The RAF Harvard trainer and the Hudson bomber were made in the United States for British contracts, so it was possible to get some fine footage at Lockheed's Burbank facility. As there were not Mk.1A Spitfires or German BF-109Es in America, Twentieth Century-Fox had one of each constructed at the studio in Los Angeles. In England, Ronald Neame and his team worked at the RAF's No. 602 Squadron ('City of Glasgow') to capture authentic shots of take-offs, aerial formations and so forth . . . the marvelous five-minute sequence at Dunkirk was actually achieved on the Californian coast at a cost of $100,000."
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