Ditch and Live

Ditch and Live

42 mins | Jan. 1, 1944

Lt. Scott Reynolds is co-pilot on a B-17 bomber. When his ship is forced to ditch at sea, only Reynolds survives. The nine other crew members died as a result of insufficient training in ditching procedure. Sent back to the States and promoted, Captain Reynolds takes command of a new B-17 and indoctrinates his crew carefully in the proper methods of preparation for ditching and for survival at sea thereafter.

Ditch and Live

42 mins | Jan. 1, 1944

Ditch and Live
Lt. Scott Reynolds is co-pilot on a B-17 bomber. When his ship is forced to ditch at sea, only Reynolds survives. The nine other crew members died as a result of insufficient training in ditching procedure. Sent back to the States and promoted, Captain Reynolds takes command of a new B-17 and indoctrinates his crew carefully in the proper methods of preparation for ditching and for survival at sea thereafter.
Producers First Motion Picture Unit, United States Army Air Forces
Original title Ditch and Live
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Cast

Philip Bourneuf

as Major

Rand Brooks

as T / Sgt. Ryan

Don Castle

as Lieutenant Hendricks

Donald Curtis

as Captain

Kirby Grant

as Crewman of ditching B-17

Arthur Kennedy

as Captain Scott H. Reynolds

David Wayne

as Pilot of ditching B-17