The Dawn Patrol is a 1930 World War I film starring Richard Barthelmess and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. It was directed by Howard Hawks.
It was remade in 1938 by Edmund Golding with Errol Flynn and Basil Rathbone in the leading roles. It also featured David Niven.
British pilots experience the hell of the war in the air over the Western Front, the high loss rate and the stress of command.
