A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941) on Netflix
American pilot Tim Baker ferries bombers to Britain, where he finds Carol Brown, a nightclub singer who also serves with the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. He joins the Royal Air Force.
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In 1940, while the United States remains neutral, training planes built in America are flown to the Canadian border and towed across for Britain to use. Tim Baker, a cocky American pilot, crosses into Ontario and lands in trouble with the military authorities; he says he was hunting for Trenton, New Jersey, and they do not believe him. The officer in charge suggests another job: ferrying Lockheed Hudson bombers to Britain for a thousand dollars a trip. Carol Brown, whom he has dated off and on, works with the Women's Auxiliary Air Force and sings at a nightclub. Baker joins the Royal Air Force, and two officers, John Morley and Roger Pillby, both notice Brown; Morley keeps asking her out even after she tells him there is someone else.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941)
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In the original version of the film, Tyrone Power's hero died at Dunkirk, but after the RAF complained that morale would be jeopardized, the scene was re-shot so that Baker survived.- For its Dunkirk evacuation sequence, the production filmed at Point Mugu, California, and used more than 1,000 extras.
- To stage the airfield scenes realistically, the prop department built accurate Spitfire and Messerschmitt replica fighters, alongside actual Lockheed Hudson bombers from the nearby Lockheed factory in Burbank, California.
- According to Robert Osborne, Tyrone Power felt that Betty Grable's song-and-dance numbers were out of place in the film, but Grable, believing her popularity rested on her singing, dancing and well-known bare legs, got her way and the scenes stayed.
