The Lost Squadron

Reunited with wartime pal and Hollywood pilot Woody (Robert Armstrong), meeting his sister "Pest" (Dorothy Jordan), Gibby (Richard Dix), Red (Joel McCrea) and Fritz (Hugh Herbert), get their first movie gig, Erich von Stroheim as the director, in The Lost Squadron, 1932.

From post-WWI France in 1918, American fliers Gibby (Richard Dix), Woody (Robert Armstrong), Red (Joel McCrea) and mechanic Fritz (Hugh Herbert), to hard times back home, early in The Lost Squadron, 1932, directed by George Archainbaud.

Erich von Stroheim (as "Von Furst") stretching to act like a crazy director, likewise Mary Astor as actress "Follette," Richard Dix (as "Gibby") and Robert Armstrong (as tipsy "Woody") as flying aces in Hollywood, early in The Lost Squadron, 1932.

Von Furst (Erich von Stroheim) directing his big battle scene, drunken Woody (Robert Armstrong) at the controls, wild stunt flying, in director George Archainbaud's The Lost Squadron, 1932.