The Rear Gunner

Movie · 0h 26m

Starring Burgess Meredith, Ronald Reagan, Tom Neal, Dane Clark

Documentary-style drama on training of aerial rear gunners in World War II. Private PeeWee Williams, a Kansas farm boy, transforms his home-grown shooting skills into those necessary to an aerial gunner in the tail turret of an American bomber. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.