Walt Disney Studios: Feature Films: Victory Through Air Power

Victory Through Air Power Story Detail

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Cartoon Synopsis:

A Disney feature-length cartoon that is both documentary and propaganda film. Inspired by Walt Disney's desire to help the war effort, this film deals with the ability of airplanes to help turn the tide against the Axis powers in World War II.

The entire film is animation except for clips of Brigadier-General Billy Mitchell and Major Alexander P. de Seversky speaking.

Historical flights by such aviation pioneers as the Wright Brothers, Alberto Santos-Dumont, Louis Bleriot, C.S. Rolls, Eugene Ely, Cal Rodgers, Charles A. Lindbergh, Wiley Post, Howard Hughes, and the crews of the NC-4 and the Douglas World Cruisers.

World War I aviation and the advent of the synchronized machine gun and aerial bombardment.

Still photographs and animation depict the career of de Seversky and his contribution to aviation.

The role of aviation as used by Germany in the invasion of France, Norway and Crete, the role of the Royal Air Force during the evacuation at Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and the sinking of British warships Prince of Wales and Repulse by the Japanese.

United States war production and its logistic problems, the geographical advantages of logistics held by Germany and Japan, and the effects of unrestricted submarine warfare by the German Navy.

Methods of defeating Germany through close air support and strategic bombing, the disadvantages of Allied bombing operations against Japan from China, Siberia, aircraft carriers and bases gained through island invasions, and the advantages to be gained by bombing Japan from Alaskan bases with long-range bombers.

The advantage of heavily armed long-range bombers over attacking fighter planes, and how aerial bombardment of hydroelectric plants and submarine pens can shorten the war.

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