How About WW II Movies?

[LONGTOM]

Just thought of two more good ones.
The ENEMY BELOW with Robert Mitchum and BATAAN with Robert Taylor, George Murphy and Lloyd Nolan.



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[mauser98us]

Almost all carriers were dedicated to the pacific.

[us920669]

This has been great.  I also liked Das Boot and 60 Seconds Over Tokyo.  My dad took me to see Run Silent Run Deep and I remember he liked it too.

Did anyone see Three Came Back, or maybe it was Five?  The British families who were interred in the Far East.  Not a guy film but very well made and powerful.  Your wife will probably love it.

[mcwoodduck]

Did anyone see Three Came Back, or maybe it was Five?  The British families who were interred in the Far East.  Not a guy film but very well made and powerful.  Your wife will probably love it.

Empire of the Sun was about a similar topic.
I used to shoot with a guy that was interned by the Japanese in Indonisia as a kid.  He was Dutch.  He could say nothing nice about the Japanese and how they treated his parents.

[Ex 49'er]

Just remembered a couple more: The Battle of Britain and Patton. I love the speech that George C. Scott makes in Patton about what you can tell your kid you did in WWII.

[OldSchoolRanger]

I remember "A walk in the Sun", great movie, I haven't seen it for the longest time.  Think, I'll try to find it at the local blockbusters. 
I also remember a movie called "Go for Broke!" starring Van Johnson, it was about the Nisei (American born Japanese) in the 442nd Regimental
Combat Team.  They served in the European theater of operations, and became the most decorated American unit in WW2.
There was a funny line in the movie, I think it went like this: Van Johnsons' character a Lieutenant reading a list of new
replacements says: "O'Hara, finally a good Irish lad!" it turns out the replacement was a Japanese-American kid named
Ohara.  and another one where a German officer asks his American captor: What kind of troops are these, Chinese?
The Van Johnson character reply's: "Japanese. Didn't Hitler tell you? Japan surrendered. They're fighting on our side now.
 

[slim rem 7]

saving private ryan and wind talkers are the ones that come to mind..i have also wondered why there seems to be so little air support at normandy and other attack points ,on that bloody day in history..slim

[us920669]

I'm not an expert on D Day, but Ike may have made a decision to avoid any friendly fire incidents by limiting air to a strategic role.  That's the sort of thing you will never read about in a mainstream history.

[LONGTOM]

My last one I can think of, (I THINK?) !

The DIRTY DOZEN with Lee Marvin.
(I don't like to be pushed--I only hit him once--you only hit him once and drove his nose into his brain)
Loved that part!



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[GRIMJIM]

Hart's war was good also, not really war orientated but good.