Andy Griffith as Will Stockdale

Nick Adams as Benjamin Whitledge

Myron McCormick as Sgt. Orville C. King

Murray Hamilton as Irving S. Blanchard

Howard Smith as Maj. Gen. Eugene Bush

Will Hutchins as Lt. George Bridges

Sydney Smith as Maj. Gen. Vernon Pollard

James Millhollin as Maj. Royal B. Demming

Don Knotts as Cpl. John C. Brown

Jean Willes as WAF Captain

Bartlett Robinson as Captain

Henry McCann as Lt. Cover

Dub Taylor as Mr. McKinney

William Fawcett as Pa Stockdale

Raymond Bailey as Base Colonel