Wings Up

Wings Up
Produced by First Motion Picture Unit
Starring Clark Gable
Gilbert Roland
Robert Preston
Distributed by Office of War Information
Release dates
  • 1943 (1943)
Running time
20 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Wings Up is a short propaganda film produced by the US Air Force during World War II.

Narrated by Clark Gable the short informed the youth of America about the Officers Candidate School of the Army Air Forces. It emphasized that while usually these courses would take years, the country was at war now and needed all the pilots it could get and fast. The curriculum is briefly outlined as well as the kind of life a cadets would lead at one of these facilities.


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