Captain Eddie

Fred MacMurray

Eddie Rickenbacker

Lynn Bari

Adelaide Frost Rickenbacker

Charles Bickford

William Rickenbacker

Thomas Mitchell

Ike Howard

Lloyd Nolan

Lt. Jim Whitaker

James Gleason

Tom Clark

Spring Byington

Mrs. Frost

Mary Philips

Elsie Rickenbacker

Darryl Hickman

Eddie Rickenbacker as a boy

Dwayne Hickman

Louis Rickenbacker

Richard Conte

Pvt. John Bartek

Stanley Ridges

Col. Hans Adamson

Dorothy Adams

Nurse

Mary Gordon

Mrs. Westrom

Virginia Brissac

Flo Clark

Charles Russell

Sgt. Jim Reynolds

Clem Bevans

Jabez

Grady Sutton

Lester Thomas

Chick Chandler

Richard Lacey

Nancy June Robinson

Mary Rickenbacker