"I WANTED WINGS"

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 169, 17 October 1941, Page 4

"I WANTED WINGS"

AMERICAN DEFENCE PREPARES

| Men have been forever jiushing ! frontiers forward. Not men of mere might, but the really mighty men of vision, foresight and sheer mental muscle who have mastered and applied the verities in clinics and laboratories fields and factories. One day when the earth at last has cooled and the last man answers the final reckoning, lie will be asked what he demanded and what he gave. And among his answers will be one significant reply: "Ii Wanted Wings!" But then he must answer why. To travel, to spread his knowledge, to kill, toi defend. And what a contradiction lies in that answer? But it is paradoxically correct. Foi while one nation will use its wings for pacific, purposeful pursuits, another will pitch its pilots from the skies in dive-bombing murder.

Though America's flying youth wanted wings for nobler reasons, the iroung men of that great country fnay one day be forced to spread them in defence. Against this day, the nation now prepares. Thousands of flying cadets are beating through Clouds pouring over texts, studj'ing navigation, analysing motors, sighting through cannons. The story of these youths and their part in the nation's defence is told grippingly in "I Wanted Wings," starring Ray Miilland, William Holden, Wayne Morris and Brian Donlevy as the young men who man the ramparts in the sky. Just what America is doing may be seen at the Regent in the film. "I Wanted Wings."