The Final Flight of Captain Forrester

America's Girls by Texas Monthly

Apr 15, 20254:38Society & Culture

A woman’s search for her father—a pilot who disappeared during a mission in Vietnam—collides with the fight over what we owe those who never returned from war. From the producers of "America's Girls" and "Tom Brown's Bod...

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