Air Strike

U.S. Navy Commander Stanley Blair (Richard Denning), Korean-war ace and born leader, is trying to weld together a Navy jet-fighter attack squadron based on the carrier U.S.S. Essex. A feud arises between cocky ensign James Delaney (William Courtney)and Lieutenant Richard Huggins (Don Haggerty), ambitious for promotion but troubled by his wife Marg (Gloria Jean, a nightclub singer who wants him to take shore duty. After Huggins disputes Delaney's claim that he has spotted an unidentified submarine, Blair offers Huggins a transfer but he refuses. On a training flight the squadron runs into dense fog and Huggins gets lost, his instruments out and fuel running low. Delaney volunteers to lead Huggins to safety.