ww2 air warfare movies to watch

Inspired by Churchill's Dunkirk speech, brash, undisciplined bush pilot Brian MacLean and three friends enlist in the RCAF but are deemed too old to be fliers.

An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend.

The story of an RAF fighter squadron at the height of the Battle of Britain.

A dead World War II bomber pilot, Pete Sandidge becomes the guardian angel of another pilot, Ted Randall. He guides Ted through battle and helping him to romance his old girlfriend, despite her excessive devotion to Sandidge's memory.

In World War II Burma, a Canadian bomber pilot becomes reckless after losing his bride in a Luftwaffe air raid.

November 1940, during the greatest conflict man has ever known, an epic duel unfolds between two ace pilots, each willing to take the match to it's ultimate conclusion. Unknown to the pilots is a fate neither has considered.

The story of airmen training in rural Manitoba in the summer of 1942 to go overseas and become bomber pilots in World War II, as well as the romantic entanglements which overcome them while they contemplate life and love in a world at war.

The story of the 1941 Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor, and the series of preceding American blunders that aggravated its effectiveness.

During World War II, a Soviet veteran pilot teaches newcomers that war is transient, and music is eternal.

Young Japanese pilots are trained to sink Allied warships by flying into them.

In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland.

The life of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto from the early 1930's to his death at the hands of the US military in 1943.

Biographical movie about Colonel Kato, an officer serving with the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force in Southeast Asia, he was highly respected by his pilots for his fairness and excellent flying ability.

In 1944,when British navy convoys try to supply the Soviets with war matériel under the lend-lease agreement,the Soviet naval aviation base in Murmansk is attacked by German bombers.

In WW2, an American aircraft carrier sails around the Pacific on a decoy mission until it joins the battle of Midway against the Japanese forces.

A certain number of French fighter pilots who will not accept the Second Armistice at Compiègne nor Vichy's orders decide to join the USSR. Once they have reached Moscow they resume training and form a squadron they call "Normandie". Reinforced in 1944, the squadron wins many victories. Following the acts of valor displayed by its pilots during the Battle of the Nieman River, it becomes the "Normandie-Niemen" squadron for the rest of times...

The first Yugoslav Partisan air force unit. Loosely based on historical facts.

A U.S. Air Force colonel convinces the Allies during World War II that a daylight bombing raid of Germany will bring a quick end to the war.

A replacement co-pilot joins a B-17 bomber crew in North Africa. He soon finds himself at odds with the remainder of the crew and has to regain their trust and support.

When a boy who is in the navy college returns home for vacation he meets his young cousin who also wants to join in order to become a pilot. However, the younger man's mother is antagonistic knowing the folly of war. When the younger man recruits his cousin to speak to the mother the enlisted man is successful and the mother relents. The younger cousin is soon in the navy and training to become a pilot. He graduates too, but one night loses his friend yet has no time to reflect on the event as japan draws nearer to war with the West. The pilot and his fellow pilots are told to embark on a mission, but initially not told their purpose or destination. Only later it is revealed that the destination is Hawaii, USA. Pearl Habour looms.

Wartime film dealing with a Japanese torpedo bomber squadron at war. The film opens with the Battle of Midway, The enemy carriers and ships are sunk with the IJN suffering minimal losses. However, the enemy has yet to surrender. Three IJN fliers Mikami (Susumu Fujita), Kawakami (Masayuki Mori), and Murakami (Akitake Kono) are good friends, and they are all renowned for their torpedo techniques. Mikami is posted as a staff officer at a base on an island in the Pacific. The base gets attacked by Allied Aircraft but the Zeros always fight back. One Air-raid has P-38s shooting down natives and a U.S. Pilot shot down. The Pilot is extremely disrespectful and the fliers realize how the Americans "really are". Kawakami and Murakami later join him as the base squadron is reinforced. An enemy task is spotted in the Philippine Sea. The enemy task force approaches the island and all three attack the fleet, killing themselves in the process. The Carrier Squad destroys the Main Task Force and the Land Squad attacks the Final Task Force. The fleet is sunk and the men have done their duty well. Good scenes of Nakajima Jill (Tenzan) torpedo bombers, and a scene involving a captured American flyer, played by Osman Yusuf (Mothra, King Kong vs. Godzilla, King Kong Escapes). The film takes place during the Battle of the Philippine Sea. In the Battle, The Japanese lost Taiho, Shokaku, and Hiyo. The Film shows Yorktown and Wasp-Class Carriers being sunk. This shows that the FIlm is blatant Propaganda. It also shows really hard how the film wants you to hate Americans.

Major Kirby leads The Wildcats squadron into the historic WWII battle of Guadalcanal.

Capt. Jim Gordon's command of the famed American volunteer fighter group in China is complicated by the recruitment of an old friend who is a reckless hotshot.