My Fatherland

Moments before launching into the night on his first combat mission over Vietnam, Danny Manley, a young African-American, learns that Nat Washington has been shot. As he steers toward the sleeping village which he has been assigned to bomb, he reflects on the events which have led him to the cockpit of this navy attack plane and have led Nat to a violent death in Mississippi.
Danny is torn between his passion for flying and his love for Joan, Danny’s strong, passionate and fearless girlfrien...