Parachute Battalion (1941)
Thrill TO THE DRAMA OF UNCLE SAM'S NEW JUMP FIGHTERS!...
75 min
Pre-Pearl Harbor propaganda film about young Americans, from various social backgrounds, who undergo parachute training at Fort Benning prior to becoming paratroopers.
- Release date
- September 12, 1941
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Robert Preston as Donald Morse
- Nancy Kelly as Kit Richards
- Edmond O'Brien as Bill Burke
- Harry Carey as Bill Richards
- Buddy Ebsen as Jeff Hollis
- Paul Kelly as Tex
- Richard Cromwell as Spence
- Robert Barrat as Col. Burke
- Edward Fielding as Chief of Infantry
- Erville Alderson as Pa Hollis
Crew
- Leslie Goodwins · Director
- John Twist · Writer
- Hugh Fite · Writer
- Howard Benedict · Producer
- Roy Webb · Composer
- J. Roy Hunt · Cinematographer
- Theron Warth · Editor