Radio review – Lux - “Air Force” (1943) ****

Tremendously exciting war story, very well written by Dudley Nichols, about a US airplane that is flying to Pearl Harbour just as Pearl Harbour is attacked. It goes on to Wake Island and Manila, giving it powerful resonance. The ensemble nature of the piece also means you’re not sure who is going to live, although you suspect George Raft (stepping in for John Garfield, and not bad at all) will. Harry Carey is also in the cast. It has racism of the time, i.e. reference to Tojo as a monkey; the plane flies to Darwin at the end.