Air Force (Warner Bros.) (1943)

There’s a new glamour She doesn’t wear sweaters, or pose for glamour photographs. She's never seen at the Brown Derby. And though her autograph is well-known in certain French and German cities, nobody has ever asked her for it. Yet Mary Ann —star of Warner Brothers’ new picture, “Air Force’— passed every screen test with flying colors. And that’s no more than you'd expect from a Boeing Flying Fortress!* “Air Force” is the story of a Boeing B-17, and the gallant hell-for-leather crew that flew her to girl in Hollywood glory . . . via Pearl Harbor, Wake Island, Manila, the Coral Sea and Australia. Made in collaboration with the Army Air Forces, it’s a picture to make your heart skip a beat . . . then beat faster. What the camera doesn’t show is an invisible supporting cast: the designers and engineers, the technicians and researchers, the laboratory men and the craftsmen and workmen whose savvy and skill keep a steady stream of B-17’s and other war planes flowing from Boeing plants —in Seattle, the Middle West and Canada. More than twenty-five different kinds of engineering know-how are represented by several thousand Boeing engineers. Daily they challenge the word “impossible,” in a ‘round-the-clock effort to do the job better in less time. Someday this effort will be applied to making life richer and happier, in a peaceful world. For aeronautics is merely the nucleus of Boeing's engineering resources . . . resources which are relevant to almost every phase of civilized life. DESIGNERS OF THE FLYING FORTRESS + THE STRATOLINER » PAN AMERICAN CLIPPERS BOE ING "THE TERMS ‘FLYING FORTRESS'* AND -"STRATOLINER’: ARE REGIETERED BOLING TRADEMARKS <<<WARNERS Give You National Boeing Ad in Plus—THIS BIG * Most newspaper readers have become armchair experts on aviation—especially the Flying Fortress—by reading of the daily exploits of America's Air Force. This contest tests their knowledge of the Flying Fortress interestingly, excitingly, instructively. If possible, promote War Bonds and Stamps for top prizes. [FIRST DAY] About The FLYING FORT ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS IN SPACE BELOW OR WRITE ANSWERS LEGIBLY ON SEPARATE PAPER AND ATTACH TO THIS CONTEST: Are all 4-motored bombers Flying Fortresses? What type of plane brought General MacArthur from the Phillipines to Australia? What big airplane on a photographic mission in the Pacific shot down six Jap planes? WATCH FOR TOMORROW'S EXCITING CONTEST! WIN WITH ‘AIR FORCE’?! How would you like to win valuable War Bond and. War Stamp prizes? Everybody knows about a Flying Fortress and what it is doing to help bring victory to the United Nations. But what do YOU really know about this fortress of the air? If you know enough, you may be a lucky winner. The rules of the _ contest, staged in cooperation with “Air Force” the great Warner Bros.’ air motion picture to appear in the (name the theatre) beginning (date), are simple. Here they are: 1. Today, and for the next four days, the Daily News will publish a scene from “Air Force” and on alternate days we will also print silhouette views of the famed Flying Fortress. With these scenes each day will appear three questions testing your knowledge of the Flying Fortress. Answer each question in the space allotted and save the daily contests until you have all fifteen questions answered. 2. In addition to these answers, tell, in not more than 200 words, pertinent facts about the Boeing Flying Fortress. What is its other name, the one with a letter and numerals? How high and fast can it fly? How is it armored and what is its fire power? What does its crew consist of and what are the duties of crew members? Describe other details about its bomb bay, bombs and any other interesting facts you can recall, briefly.