spoiler wwii war movie about the fabled fly tiger who battle the japanese over the sky of china as early a 1937 and four year before the attack on pearl harbor and and amass a record of air to air combat kill against the japanese air force of something like 40 to 1. the story god be my co pilot actually begin in the summer of 1942 with usaf ace col. scott and dennis morgan and depressed and heart broken because he can not be part of a major air assault against japanese force in china . the movie go into a flashback where we see how scott get interested in fly a a young boy back in georgia and eventually join the usaf end up in china a the first u military man to become a member of the fly tiger while the tiger be exclusively make up of foreign and mostly american and volunteer . a you would expect the fly tiger airman aren not that hip to a usaf man who well over combat age and scott be 34 and join up with their exclusive fly fighter squadron . in no time at all scott get the hang of it and he become the hero and and to the batter and bloody jap and villain in the chinese theater of war . back home in macon georga scott exploit make the front page and his score of air to air kill against the jap be post daily a if it be the score of a championship football or world series baseball game . the movie god be my co pilot also have a japanese villain in the person of japanese air ace tokyo joe and richard loo and an american educate japanese combat pilot who and by the number of usaf kill decal under the side window of his zero and seem to have account for all the fly tiger p 40 shot down in china . scott have a number of encounter with tokyo joe during the air combat in the movie and finally shoot him out of the sky by fake that he in trouble and his engine be on fire and trick joe to lose his composure and overshoot his p 40. scott end up put joe right in the middle of his cross hair and thus become history and yesterdays news . scott on a mission over japanese hold hong kong and where he down tokyo joe and lose control of his plane and crash and be give up for dead only to show up later alive and rescue by the local chinese peasant . dennis morgan be both brave and humble a col. robert lee scott and even at the hight of the fighting have second thought about kill people and japanese soldier and even in wartime . raymond massey be excellent a the fly tiger command gen claire l. chennault who answer scott prayer at the end of the movie by give him one last chance to go into combat . this after he be render useless a a combat pilot because of his nerve be shatter and from the combat mission he already fly and and the tropical illness he contract in china . we never really get to know how scott last mission turn out since the movie end before it even begin . watch the movie it obvious that it be non other then richard loo a the wise crack japanese air ace tokyo joe who have the best line and which he deliver in perfect english and and the scene with him interact with the usaf and fly tiger pilot and like col. scott and be by far the best in the movie .