100 Great War Movies: The Real History Behind the Films
326 TWELVE O’CLOCK HIGH place of what should have been an M10 “Wolverine” tank destroyer for the Medal of Honor combat scene (th ...
TWELVE O’CLOCK HIGH 327 Background In February 1942 United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) Brigadier General Ira C. Eaker was se ...
328 TWELVE O’CLOCK HIGH full cooperation after vetting the script. Principal photography took place from late April to early Jul ...
TWELVE O’CLOCK HIGH 329 cracks down on the men of the 918th and is soon roundly despised. When all of the pi lots ask for transf ...
330 TWELVE O’CLOCK HIGH a bombing run over Hanover, Germany, on 28 July 1943. Major Joe Cobb ( John Kellogg) is based on Major ( ...
Walk in the Sun, A (1945) Synopsis A Walk in the Sun is a World War II American combat film based on the epony- mous novel by Ya ...
332 WALK IN THE SUN, A Fisher, a con man and former bootlegger turned bookie and Beverly Hills bar owner (he owned The Nineteent ...
WE WERE SOLDIERS 333 one of the men killed earlier, still holding his Thompson submachine gun lovingly in his arms. The bridge i ...
334 WE WERE SOLDIERS starring Mel Gibson, the film is based on the book We Were Soldiers Once... And Young (1992) by Lieutenant ...
WE WERE SOLDIERS 335 Plot Summary Prologue: during the final year of the First Indochina War (1954), Viet Minh forces ambush a F ...
336 WINTER WAR, THE [FInnIsH: TALVISOTA] exercise of American imperialism. Indeed, the film’s right- wing pedigree was amply dem ...
WINTER WAR, THE [FInnIsH: TALVISOTA] 337 casualties (including at least 150,000 dead) on the Rus sian invaders— five times that ...
338 WINTER WAR, THE [FInnIsH: TALVISOTA] started (30 November 1939). Lt. Col. Matti Laurila (Esko Salminen) addresses the men of ...
WINTER WAR, THE [FInnIsH: TALVISOTA] 339 Reel History Versus Real History Talvisota, both book and film, are historically accura ...
Zulu (1964) Synopsis Zulu is a 1964 war epic written by Cy Enfield and John Prebble, directed by Enfield, and produced by Enfiel ...
ZULU 341 mission depot at Rorke’s Drift was constructed beneath the Amphitheatre (an imposing crescent- shaped massif of sheer b ...
342 ZULU and his daughter (Ulla Jacobsson) to inform Zulu King Cetshwayo kaMpande (Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi) of the stunning v ...
ZULU 343 Reception Zulu premiered at the Plaza Theatre at Piccadilly Circus in London on the 85th anni- versary of the battle (2 ...
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Bibliography Adamovich, Ales. Khatyn. Tilburg, Netherlands: Glagoslav Publications Ltd., 2012. Adamovich, Ales, Yanka Bryl and V ...
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