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Wake Island

From The Internet Movie Plane Database
Wake Island poster.

Movie (1942)

Starring:
Brian Donlevy (Major Geoffrey Caton)
Macdonald Carey (Lieutenant Bruce Cameron)
Robert Preston (Private Joe Doyle)
William Bendix (Private Aloysius K. Randall)

December, 1941. With no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.

Grumman F4F Wildcat

Consolidated PBY Catalina

Amphibious variant (PBY-5A or PBY-6A).

Boeing 314

Reg. NC18606 Boeing 314 American Clipper of PAA-Pan American Airways System, c/n 1993 built in 1939.
Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).

Ryan SCW

Acting as Japanese aircraft.

Unidentified Aircraft

Maybe a Kawasaki Ki-10? Chased by an unknown monoplane.

North American BT-9

Mitsubishi Ki-21

Second row with Mitsubishi Ki-30.

Unidentified Aircraft

Maybe some Kawasaki Ki-10 ?


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