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Within the US Navy, Ensign Alan Drake has just graduated from flight school in Pensacola, Florida at the top of his class, excited that his first assignment is with an elite squadron in San Diego nicknamed the Hellcats who are known to hand pick their members. What he doesnt know is that he was not hand picked by them, the squadron members who generally want experienced pilots for their sometimes risky maneuvers. Their reservations with Alan, who they mockingly nickname Pensacola, are heightened upon his auspicious arrival, he risking his and the other members lives by ignoring orders of the CO Bill Gary in his yet unwarranted bravado. While not quite shunned but not accepted in the casual camaraderie that exists between the squadrons pilots and flight crew, he is at least given a chance by a few of the men, including Bill. While he slowly begins to be accepted by the other members on his own merits, a series of events that happen between Alan and the first person he met upon his arrival in San Diego, namely Bills wife, Lorna Gary, most specifically in helping her deal with the grief of the death of her childhood best friend in Bills absence, she who was taught upon her marriage that she has to display a certain sense of stoicism in what is the all too often situation of attending military funerals, that may forever jeopardize Alans standing within the squad.
Ensign Alan Drake is assigned to the elite "Hell Cat" squadron of Navy fliers based in San Diego, despite being relatively inexperienced. Getting off on bad footing by ruining the squadrons chances of winning a target-shooting competition, Drake is encouraged by Jerry Banning, an officer whose sister Lorna is the wife of the squadron commander, William Gary. Drake and Banning work on a device to help aircraft land in the fog, but when Banning is killed testing it and Drake appears to be getting romantically entangled with Lorna, the men of the squadron turn on Drake. Only when Commander Gary himself is in jeopardy does Drake get a chance to show his fellow fliers what kind of man he really is.
Robert Taylor
Ensign Alan Drake
Ruth Hussey
Lorna Gary
Walter Pidgeon
Squadron Comdr. Bill Gary
Paul Kelly
Lieut. Comdr. 'Dusty' Rhodes
Shepperd Strudwick
Lieut. Jerry Banning
Red Skelton
Lieut. 'Mugger' Martin
Nat Pendleton
C.P.O. 'Spike' Knowles
Dick Purcell
Lieut. 'Stichy' Payne
William Tannen
Lieut. Freddy Townsend
William Stelling
Lieut. Bush
Stanley Smith
Lieut. Frost
Addison Richards
Vice Admiral
Donald Douglas
1st Duty Officer
Pat Flaherty
2nd Duty Officer
Forbes Murray
Captain
Marsha Hunt
Claire
Irving Bacon
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Cliff Danielson
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