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In March 1941 Jimmy Stewart, America's guy nearby and recent Academy Award winner, left popularity and bundle of money behind and joined america Military Air Corps to fulfill his family objective and provide his country. He rose from private to colonel and participated in 20 often-brutal World Warfare II combat missions over Germany and France. In only months the battle required away his boyish appears as he faced near-death encounters and the loss of men under his demand. The battle finally received, he returned home with millions of other veterans to handle an uncertain future, battling what we now know as PTSD. Younger stars like Gregory Peck were now getting tasks that may have been Stewart's, and he didn't know if he'd ever work in Hollywood again. Then arrived It's an excellent Life. For the next half century, Stewart refused to go over his combat encounters and took the storyplot of his service to the grave. Mission reveals the first in-depth take a look at Stewart's life as a squadron commander in the skies over Germany, his go back to Hollywood, and the changed man who embarked on development of America's most beloved holiday classic. Creator Robert Matzen sifted through thousands of Air Force combat accounts and the Stewart staff files; interviewed making it through aviators who flew with Stewart; been to the Adam Stewart Documents at Brigham Young School; flew in the cockpits of the B-17 Traveling Fortress and B-24 Liberator; and walked the planet earth of air bases in Great britain employed by Stewart in his combat missions of 1943-45. What emerges in Mission is the storyplot of a Jimmy Stewart you never recognized until now - a story more fantastic than any he brought to the screen.
