ABOVE AND BEYOND

a movie released in 1953, based on the true story of Colonel Paul W. Tibbets (1915-), a pilot who commanded a mission during World War II (1939-1945) to drop the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The story follows Tibbets (played by American actor Robert Taylor) through an extensive and secretive training program to prepare him for his mission. Unable to reveal any information to his wife (played by American actress Eleanor Parker), the relationship becomes strained to the point where she overreacts to his preoccupation and moods of withdrawal and leaves him. The day of the mission arrives, the bomb is dropped and Tibbets returns to a wife who now understands all.