Winged Victory was a 1944 film directed by George Cukor as a joint production of 20th Century-Fox and the U.S. Army Air Forces; it was based on the 1943 play with the same name by Moss Hart. One of the characters in the play/film wants to become a pilot but washes out because he fails his eye test. That reminds me that Arnold, too, wanted to be a pilot but could not on account of his blue-green color blindness. And come to think of it, Arnold did later admit to cheating on the vision test, too, by memorizing the Snellen chart in use at the time, but then could not overcome the color blindness test.
I smiled when Hazel repeats 12-hour clock time in Military time.
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