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3 unusual facts about Keep 'Em Flying


Buck Privates

The comedy team made two more service comedies before the United States entered the war (In the Navy and Keep 'Em Flying).

It was re-released in 1948, and again on a double bill with Keep 'Em Flying in 1953.

Keep 'Em Flying

However, the Academy attributed the song to another Universal Pictures release, Hellzapoppin', even though it was not used in that production.


Keep 'Em Slugging

As a result, their usual roles were respectively taken over by Bobby Jordan and Norman Abbott.

Dave Durand, a member of the concurrent running East Side Kids series, appears as an extra in this film, and Jane Frazee and Robert Paige make uncredited appearances as stars in the movie house film.

Loring Smith

He also intermittently appeared in films, playing supporting parts in 1941's Keep 'Em Flying, with Abbott and Costello and Shadow of the Thin Man, fourth in the William PowellMyrna Loy series of Nick and Nora Charles mysteries.


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130th Airlift Wing

On June 13, 2005, members of the BRAC commission came to Charleston to evaluate the base and talk to General Tackett, Governor Joe Manchin, Senator Robert Byrd, Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito and Col. Bill Peters, Jr, former commander of the 130th and chair for Keep 'Em Flying.

West Virginia Air National Guard

On June 13, 2005, members of the BRAC commission came to Charleston to evaluate the base and talk to General Tackett, Governor Joe Manchin, Senator Robert Byrd, Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito and Col. Bill Peters, Jr., former commander of the 130th and chair for Keep 'Em Flying.

You Don't Know What Love Is

Universal ended putting the song into the Raye/de Paul score of one of its B musicals, the 60-minute Behind the Eight Ball (1942), starring the Ritz Brothers and re-teaming Carol Bruce and Dick Foran from "Keep 'Em Flying."