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Asuzaka, a gigantic male dragon, but is incinerated by him. During the aerial battle, only Lt. Marks (Stephen Suitts) is unscathed as each pilot rams a dragon to halt the attacking force of dragons, buying time for the Fortress to reach the mountain and destroy the facility, taking with it Asuzaka and the remaining dragons. When it is thought that Lt. Robbins is also killed, a SAS ground party, however, locates him and bring him back to the headquarters hospital where he reunites with nurse Rachel McKee (Stephanie Beran).
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Rommel, who has serious doubts about Dr. Gudrun's intentions and the vrill's ability to keep the dragons under control, meets with Robbins. He reveals that, that once in a very long while, the parthenogenic females will lay an egg that hatches out a male dragon, and that the incredibly rare males are
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The Ghost Squadron, escorting the Fortress, keep the Nazi dragons at bay long enough for it to bomb the incubator and destroy the eggs. Rommel's "inside man" — one of the vrill women Dagmar (Pernille Trojgaard), a British agent — opens the facility's air vent for Ghost Squadron. Gundrun releases
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that are available, led by Lieutenant John Robbins (Scott Martin), the only survivor of the first fighter squadron to encounter the dragons. General Ward (Thom Rachford) forms the "Ghost Squadron", so named because it does not officially exist.
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so powerful that the legends say they herald the end of the world. Rommel explains this actually means the fall of a civilization, saying that one male dragon had laid waste to the
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written and directed by Mark Atkins. The film stars Scott Martin, Stephanie Beran, Ross Brooks, Thom Rachford, Clint Glenn Hummel, Harwood Gordon, Stephen Suitts, Trey McCurley,
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in charge of the dragon breeding program, code named "Skyward", arrives with his brood. The adult dragons and the vrill are intended to regain air superiority in the
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During World War II, the U.S. Army 23rd Headquarters Special Troops were called the "Ghost Army", set up as a ruse to deceive the Germans about the
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expedition had found a dragon's egg and hatched it, setting about to breed more. These dragons are able to reproduce
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To combat the dragons, an American general is dispatched with orders to put together a squadron made up of the best
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With all the dragon eggs destroyed and the adult dragons killed, the war will proceed with conventional weaponry.
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in a North Africa landscape was based on location shooting at Blue Cloud Movie Ranch,
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bomber from an antisubmarine squadron to handle the problem of a down-the-stack shot.
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Rommel gives Robbins the location of the incubator and explains that he will have an "
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to recreate the aerial battles of P-51 Fighter aircraft and dragons. The
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ground mission is planned. General Anderson (Harwood Gordon) obtains a
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Johnny Kostrey as Flight Lieutenant Karl Kuttelwascher
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Film poster
Kami Asgar
Riley Litman
Stephen Blackehart
science fiction
action film
Riley Litman
Stephen Blackehart
World War II
Nazi
archaeological
parthenogenically
Vril
Ozman Sirgood
cryptozoologist
North African Campaign
Afrika Korps
Erwin Rommel
Allied fighter pilots
North American P-51 Mustangs
Carthaginian Empire
Roman Empire
inside man
SAS
B-17 Flying Fortress
Riley Litman
Stephen Blackehart
Ozman Sirgood
Erwin Rommel

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