Jeff Young and Al Ludlow are cadets at Randolph Field, training to become Army Air Corps pilots. Jeff is a former college football star, while Al, a former mechanic, is haunted by a bitter breakup and fears he will fail. The two men grow close as they struggle through flight instruction, the pressure of washing out, and their own private doubts. The Lux Radio Theatre presents this dramatization of the 1942 film I Wanted Wings, a story based on the experiences of Army Air Corps cadets, first broadcast on March 30, 1942, with Ray Milland, William Holden and Veronica Lake starring.
Characters: Jeff Young, Al Ludlow, Tom Cassidy, Captain Everett Mercer, Sally Vaughan, Carolyn
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Luck presents Hollywood. The Luck's radio theatre brings you Ray Milan, William Holden, and Veronica Lake, an eye-wanted wing. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil P. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.
One of mankind's oldest dreams, traceable straight back through recorded history, to the ancient myths of Icarus and Belerophon came true on our lonely North Carolina sand dune on December 17, 1903, when man stretched his wings and flew. America gave man the airplane and now as the forces of freedom meet the powers of despotism in the battle for the
world, America must give freedom wings for victory. The planes that were counted by the hundreds in the last war when I learned to fly must be counted by the tens of thousands now and there must be men to fly them.
I wanted wings is a story of some of the men who will fight this battle of the sky. A story of the cadets of the Army Air Corps written by Lieutenant Bernie Lej, Jr. now on active duty with the air corps.
Paramount's picture must have given everyone who saw it a deep sense of pride in these gallant boys, and tonight we have the same stars who thrilled you on the screen. Ray Milan, William Holden, and Veronica Lake. Ray has just served a years term with me in Reap the Wild Wind. For your producer, a drama like I Wanted Wings, is very close to him.
Because in 1917 I started the first airline to carry passengers on regular schedule flights between cities in the United States, and we train many pilots for the Army, too. Traveling across the country last week, I met many people who may have been strangers, in fact, but seemed like old friends, because they were regular members
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It's a special beat of Mill saying good night to you from Hollywood. William Holden is currently starring in the Paramount picture, The Fleet Sin. Veronica Late is now being seen on the screen in the Paramount production, Sullivan's Travel.
Herdian tonight's play were Warren Ash as Captain Mercer, and Leo Cleary, boy David, Arthur Gilmore, Riff Barnett, Edward Marr, and Howard McNair. Tune in next Monday night to hear Patabrian, Robert Preston and Ralph Bellamy in the fighting 69.
Our music was directed by Lewis Silvers, and your announcer has been Melville Roy. This is the Columbia Vodka in 6.
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