https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/dfaeaf10-28f6-4ae4-9ca0-d6d06d0ee08f Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com “Beyond the Line of Duty” is a 1942 morale boosting film produced by the U.S. Army Air Forces in cooperation with Warner Bros. Pictures. It tells the heroic story of Captain Hewitt T. Wheless, and is narrated by Lieutenant Ronald Reagan. The film won an Oscar in 1943. It was directed by Lewis Seiler. :44 montage of U.S. Capitol Building, radio towers and telephone poles. President Roosevelt tells of how Captain Hewitt Wheless and his crew distinguished themselves in battle. 01:20 A husband remarks to this wife that he went to university with Wheless. 01:25 A group of airmen comment on how Wheless was one of the airmen’s flight school students. 0:33 A young woman remarks she once dated Wheless. 01:39 Cowboys on a Texas ranch. One notes Wheless is a pal of his. 01:47 Texas ranch, 1938. Wheless hops a fence and mounts a horse. 02:06 Ranch hands relax on the porch. The radio announces recruiting for the U.S. Army Air Forces. Wheless decides to join. 03:12 Randolph Field in San Antonio, Texas. 03:30 New recruits arrive, suitcases in hand. Wheless watches a Boeing-Stearman Model 75 biplane perform maneuvers. 04:08 Uniformed cadets march past the 52nd Squadron barracks. 04:52 Student pilots in various classes learning about the theory of flight, flight operations, engines, morse code, aeronautical charts and flighting planning. 06:07 Student pilots prepare to mount Boeing-Stearman Model 75 biplanes. Wheless and his flight instructor take off. Wheless is at the controls and performs a barrel role before executing a 3-point landing. Wheless then takes off on his first solo. 07:56 Multiple squadrons of Boeing-Stearman Model 75 fly in Vic formation. 08:13 Wheless and another flight officer walk past a Lockheed AT-18 Hudson on the tarmac. 08:30 Pilots fly Vultee BT-13s, mastering maneuvers. They practice in C-3 Link Trainers and take an high altitude oxygen pressure test. 10:36 A P-36 squadron flies through the air. Wheless and others learn to identify enemy ships by the outline. 11:05 Wheless makes a rough landing in a P-36. 12:07 Students receive their wings. 13:38 B-17Ds parked at March Field. Wheless and crew engage in gunnery and bombing practice. 15:06 Wheless and crew prepare to board their B-17 on standby alert. 15:45 The B-17 takes off. Animation of the plane flying across the Pacific Ocean to Hawaii and then to the Philippines. 16:07 President Roosevelt describes the sequence of events of Wheless’ heroic flight as five B-17s depart from base. While in formation, one engine on Wheless’s B-17 fails. His B-17 falls behind. The engine reignites and the flight continues. Eighteen Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zeroes attack. The B-17 gunners fire back. Wheless remembers the flight instructors teachings of staying relaxed and to keep eyes moving. The bombardier spots the target: Japanese transport ships. Zeroes continue strafing the B-17. 18:00 Bombs are dropped and one ship explodes. Zeroes continue to attack the B-17. Four Zeroes are shot down. The B-17’s radio operator is killed, the engineers right hand is shot off, and one side gun gunner is wounded. Three more Japanese planes are destroyed. 19:10 The B-17’s tail gunner shoots an attacking Zero. One engine of the B-17 is shot out, it’s rear landing wheel and two front wheels are shot. 19:50 The exhausted Japanese planes disengage. 20:30 Wheless controls a crash landing, remembering advice given to him in flight school. 21:01 Wheless and his wife listen to Roosevelt on the radio finishing the story. A crowd gathers around Wheless’ home and cheers. A child asks Wheless to autograph his Defense Stamp book. 22:00 Wheless gives a speech at the Boeing Plant in Seattle, Washington, thanking the workers for their excellent work. 22:50 Wheless and officers walk along a flight line of B-17s. He boards the plane and takes off. 23:45 Montage of various US Army Air Forces fighters and bombers in formation. 24:10 END Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. 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