- Dennis Morgan, God Is My Co-Pilot, 1944. Warner’s first choice for the Colonel Robert Lee Scott Jr biopic was Gary Cooper. Then, Grant or Humphrey Bogart… Or, even the real Robert Scott, himself. Colonel Scott was a WWII USAF fighter pilot hero – his dream, since the age of eight. He was the film’s technical advisor. Well, he was one of America’s first WWII’s first flying aces: 388 combat missions in 925 hours during 1942-1943, downing 13 Japanese planes. Naturally, the USAF refused to release Scott. Because as you might remember, Hollywood… there’s a war on!! Scott wrote about it in among his dozen books, including in 1947 – God is Still My Co-Pilot. (A 1989 episode of the Coming of Age series, was called Todd Is My Co-Pilot).
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