The Way to the Stars

Pilot Officer Peter Penrose (John Mills) is posted in the summer of 1940 as a pilot to (the fictional) No. 720 Squadron[N 1] at a new airfield, RAF Station Halfpenny Field. He is assigned to B Flight, under Flight Lieutenant David Archdale (Michael Redgrave) He develops into a first-class pilot, but Archdale is killed over France on Penrose's last mission. Penrose is posted to flying duties with an RAF Avro Lancaster bomber unit.