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        5. Frank Wilbur "Spig" Wead (born October 24, , in Peoria, Illinois – died November 15, , in Santa Monica, California) was a U.S. Navy aviator turned.

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          The Wings of Eagles

          1957 film by John Ford

          For other uses, see Wings of Eagles (disambiguation).

          The Wings of Eagles is a 1957 American Metrocolor film starring John Wayne, Dan Dailey and Maureen O'Hara, based on the life of Frank "Spig" Wead and the history of U.S.

          Naval aviation from its inception through World War II.[3] The film is a tribute to Wead (who died 10 years earlier, in 1947 at age of 52) from his friend, director John Ford, and was based on Wead's "We Plaster the Japs", published in a 1944 issue of The American Magazine.[4]

          John Wayne plays naval aviator-turned-screenwriter Wead, who wrote the story or screenplay for such films as Hell Divers (1931) with Wallace Beery and Clark Gable, Ceiling Zero (1936) with James Cagney, and the Oscar-nominated World War II drama They Were Expendable (1945) in which Wayne co-starred with Robert Montgomery.[5]

          The supporting cast features Ward Bond, Ken Curtis, Edmund Lowe and Kenneth