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Bombardier (1943) was a Drama - War Film directed by Richard Wallace and Lambert Hillyer (uncredited) and produced by Robert Fellows.

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Well paced, but standard fare as young fliers learn to face the reality of air combat.

(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).

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Burton Hughes: You're quite an entomologist.
Sgt. Archie Dixon: Nope! But I know all about bugs.
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Cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca started the film, but he was replaced by Joseph F. Biroc, who finished the picture uncredited.

This film represents one of four movies made by Hollywood during the 1940s that were about or related to the US military's Dolittle Raid on Tokyo, Japan, during World War II. The four (the first three considered "fictionalized") are Destination Tokyo; The Purple Heart; this film; and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, the last being the most accurate and least fictionalized of the four.

The word "Hell" is drowned out with various sound effects each time an actor says it.

Richard Martin plays a character named "Chito Rafferty". He appeared as Tim Holt's sidekick, Chito Rafferty, in Holt's RKO series of "B" westerns in the 1940s and 1950s.

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