“...one of our aircraft is missing” That is the title. Available on youtube, make sure to watch the longer version. WWII Wellington aircraft. Done by the great team of Pressburger and Powell. A great airplane movie, a great war movie and a great ensemble cast.
Did anyone mention “The First of the Few”? It was about the Spitfire. Produced, directed and acted in by Leslie Howard. His passionate contribution to the war effort. He was killed because of it by the Nazis, so his ode to the Spitfire was the last film of the great British actor.
Also, no one mentioned “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo”.... great sequences training the pilots to take off fast and low on land and then footage of their actual takeoff on the aircraft carrier that sent them on that fateful mission. Eerie footage of the raid over Tokyo, too.