Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber offensive. The film centres around Pilot Officer Peter Penrose, fresh out of a training unit, who joins the squadron, and quickly discovers about life during war time. He falls for Iris, a young girl who lives at the local hotel, but he becomes disillusioned about marriage, when the squadron commander dies in a raid, and leaves his wife, the hotel manageress, with a young son to bring up. As the war progresses, Penross comes to terms that he has survived, while others have been killed.
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Michael Redgrave as Flight Lt. David Archdale
John Mills as Pilot Officer Peter Penrose
Rosamund John as Miss Todd
Douglass Montgomery as Johnny Hollis
Renée Asherson as Iris Winterton
Stanley Holloway as Mr. Palmer
Basil Radford as 'Tiny' Williams
Felix Aylmer as Rev. Charles Moss
Bonar Colleano as Joe Friselli
Joyce Carey as Miss Winterton
Trevor Howard as Squadron Leader Carter
Nicholas Stuart as Colonel Rogers (as Tryon Nichol)
Bill Owen as Sgt. 'Nobby' Clarke
Grant Miller as Wally Becker
Jean Simmons as A Singer
Johnnie Schofield as Jones
Charles Victor as Corporal Fitter
David Tomlinson as 'Prune' Parsons
Hartley Power as Colonel Page
Vida Hope as Elsie
Hugh Dempster as 'Tinker' Bell
Charles Farrell as American Orderly
Anthony Dawson as Bertie Steen
Bill Logan as Radio Operator
John Howard as Shelter Officer
Murray Matheson as Joe Lawson
John McLaren as 'Cheerio' Chester
Jacqueline Clarke as Waitress
Alf Goddard as PT Instructor
Caven Watson as RAF Corporal
Sydney Benson as Fred
Peter Cotes as Aircraftsman
Ann Wilton as Schoolmistress
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