<Li> Nadia Parra as Frances (Tony's sister) </Li> <Li> Quinton Flynn as Newsreel narrator </Li> <P> On January 16, 1942, Chief Aviation Machinist's Mate and enlisted Naval Aviation Pilot Harold Dixon (aged 42, from La Mesa, California), radioman Gene Aldrich (aged 22 from Sikeston, Missouri) and bombardier Anthony Pastula (aged 24 of Youngstown, Ohio) took off from the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise in a Douglas TBD Devastator torpedo bomber . As part of Torpedo Squadron SIX (VT - 6), they were to undertake an anti-submarine sweep over the Pacific Ocean . Once airborne they were to maintain radio silence to safeguard the carrier being detected by the Japanese . </P> <P> Their aircraft lost position and was unable to return to the carrier . Running low on fuel Dixon ditched the aircraft in the sea . The aircraft sank quickly taking most of the crew's survival equipment with it . The men inflated the small rubber life raft and climbed inside . Surviving on rainwater and meager rations the men drifted for 34 days and travelled over 1,000 miles, before landing on the Pukapuka atoll, a friendly island . The crew were picked up a week later by a seaplane from the USS Swan . </P>

In against the sun what type of plane is shown in the movie