From 1942 to 1945 the United States Army Air Force flew thousands of daylight missions over occupied Europe. Teams of young Americans took off from airfields in England to fight flak, enemy fighters and the odds in a battle for survival and in pursuit of the ultimate prize….home. Happy Warriors Life and Death with the U.S Army Air Force is a film about the horrors of war in the air and the young men who experienced life at it’s limits through events that would define them for the rest of their days.

Enter a world of courage and superstition, a world of fantastic deeds by ordinary men, a world, in which your first mission might be your last.

Happy Warriors is a documentary collage on the U.S Army Air Force during WWII. Told through the experiences of a typical bomb group it uses archive photos, found footage and wartime memorabilia along with newly recorded material to shine a light on tales of triumph and tragedy and on one of the most infamous photographs of WWII.