Granted that it was important to give the American folks at home (not serving in the military) the most patriotic message possible as I recall those early days of WWII when the headlines of the local paper had virtually nothing in the way of good news as we took one licking after another. But this film is just preposterous; in one scene, young aviator Ford leaves his training convinced that he had failed to make the grade and heads for South America to find his long unseen father (Pat O'Brien who was disgraced in WWI), and then in the next scene after being talked out of flying a shoestring outfit in S.A., he is now a prominent test pilot asked to undertake a dangerous mission in which a U.S. "Interceptor" flies at speeds in excess of 600 M.P.H. What poppycock....in actuality, the Army Air Corps and the Navy were delighted if they could find anything that could exceed 300 MPH. And to end the film, they just drop everything with absolutely no resolution to any of the subjects they have broached. A total waste of time.
Review of Flight Lieutenant
