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Answer 1

Here is a synopsis of the movie...maybe it will help in answering your question:

After a brief prologue set in the present, the bulk of the story takes place in late 1942 and early 1943. General Savage is assigned to take over temporary command of the 918th Bomb Group, which has suffered heavy losses and is having serious morale problems.

Reaching the base, Gen. Savage finds it in some disarray, starting with the guard who waves his car through without identifying its occupants. True to his name, he deals with everyone harshly. An enlisted man out of uniform is demoted to Private on the spot. The Group second-in-command, Lt. Col. Gately, is absent despite being nominally in command till Savage arrives. Gen. Savage sends the MP's to arrest him. He closes down the officers club, part of a plan to unify the men in their dislike of their new commander.

When Lt. Col. Gately is brought in, Savage calls him a coward for not flying on missions. When Gately threatens to bring charges of abuse, Savage calls his bluff by putting in a call to General Pritchard, and also defying Gately to explain his conduct to his father, a well-regarded lieutenant general.

For a final humiliation, Savage removes Gately from his command position and puts him in charge of a single bomber, renamed the "Leper Colony", crewed with the worst airmen in the Group. As the story progresses, Savage transfers any flyer who fails to measure up to the plane.

The group "stands down", and enters intensive re-training. Savage knows that the B-17 is designed for defense against fighters based on tight formation flying, so every direction is covered by guns, so they practise this endlessly.

During this time, all of the pilots put in for transfer. Savage orders the Adjutant, Maj. Stovall, to delay their applications, but it is a race against time. They resume flying missions, and Savage continues to insist on strict adherence to his orders, using the Leper Colony as punishment.

There comes a point where missions are flown almost without loss. Savage leads them himself, at one point faking radio trouble to ignore a recall order resulting from bad weather, so that his Group is the only one to hit the target on that mission.

Morale improves, and when an Inspector General arrives to find out what is happening, all the men stand up for Savage and withdraw their transfer requests. Finally, Savage learns that Gately is in hospital, having flown several missions with a spinal injury that left him in acute pain.

As the war moves into Germany, the missions become longer and riskier.

Answer 2

WW2 England ,US Air Force Base.

Answer 3

world war 2-airplanes and dropping bombs and the crew returning safely!

Answer 4

In the air ... it was a WWII fighter movie.