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A Yank in the R.A.F.

film by King [1941]

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In Henry King: Films of the 1940s
Next was the hugely popular A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941), a World War II drama about a callow American pilot (Power) in London who reunites with a former girlfriend (Betty Grable) and then joins the Royal Air Force to impress her. The sentimental Remember the Day (1941) centres on…
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In Tyrone Power
… (1940), and the war pictures A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941) and This Above All (1942). He was especially noted for the swashbucklers The Mark of Zorro (1940) and The Black Swan (1942).
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