Twice they answered the call to protect democracy, prevailing against the odds each time. In 1948, a number of former American World War II military pilots volunteered to fly for the fledgling state of Israel when it was under attack from nearly the entire Arab world.
They were vastly outgunned and outnumbered, but their experience and sheer guts became game-changers. Director Roberta Grossman and producer Nancy Spielberg (sister of the other Spielberg filmmaker) chronicle the birth of the Israeli Air Force in “Above and Beyond.”
Engineer Al Schwimmer devised a plan to smuggle planes from America to Israel
