100 Great War Movies: The Real History Behind the Films

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United Kingdom, xi, 92 , 162 , 222 , 247 , 293
United States Army Air Forces. See USAAF
Universal Pictures, 1 , 14 , 37 , 112 , 177 , 179 ,
218 , 278 , 288 , 291 , 325
Unsworth, Geoffrey, 55
U.S. Army Signal Corps, 115
USAAF (United States Army Air Forces),
103 , 142– 43, 287 , 296 , 298 , 316 –17,
327
USO (United Service Organizations),
10 –11
USS Hornet, 316 –17
USS Little Rock, 222
USS Norfolk, 226
USS Panay incident, 268
USS Spring field, 222
USS Te x a s, 215 , 266
USS Villalobos, 265

Vadim, Roger, 148
Van der Post, Sir Laurens Jan, 232 , 234
Van Praag, Van, 229 –30, 354
Vandegrift, Gen. Alexander, 113
Varsi, Diane, 180 , 182
Vaughn, Vince, 152
Venice Film Festival, 15 , 22 , 139 , 166 ,
176 , 306
Ventura, Jesse, 7
Verdun, 138
Verhoeven, Paul, 291– 92, 294
VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars), 286
Victoria Cross, 81 , 340 , 342
Viet Cong, 10 –11, 38 , 59 , 84–85, 99 , 122 ,
335
Viet Minh, 318 , 320 , 335
Vietnam veterans, xii, 7 , 36 , 38 , 59–60, 63 ,
82 , 85 , 98 , 119 , 157 , 250 , 254 , 270
Vietnam Veterans against the War
(V VAW), 38 , 85
Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Washington,
D.C.), 155
Vietnam War, 7–9, 11 , 36 –38, 58 , 82 , 85 ,
98 , 100 –101, 119 –20, 122 , 154 ,
156 –57, 250 –51, 254 , 333–36
Villamor Air Base, 252
Vilsmaier, Joseph, 299 –300
VJ Day, 331
Volk sstur m, 46 – 47, 49 , 90
Von Rundstedt, Gen. Gerd, 223

Von Stroheim, Erich, 137–38

Vonnegut, Kurt, x, 287– 88, 291 , 354

VVAW (Vietnam Veterans against the

War), 38 , 85

Waffen-SS, 124 –25

Wagner, Robert, 222

Wahlberg, Mark, 218 –19, 321–22

Wajda, Andrzej, 187–90

Walken, Christopher, 81– 84

Walker, Mary Edwards, 64

Walker, Paul, 112

Walk in the Sun, A, 331–33, 346

Wallace, Randall, 39–40, 153 , 333–34

Wallach, Eli, 116

Wallis, Dr. Barnes, 72–74

Wallis, Hal B., 79 , 151 , 284 , 286

Walsh, Raoul, 14

War Bond drives, 111–14

War Department (U.S.), 145 , 222 , 263 ,

273 , 316 , 331

Warden, Jack, 312

Warner, David, 66 –67

Warner Bros., 5 , 14 , 33 , 58 , 78 , 93–94,

101 , 191 , 205 , 215 –16, 218 , 283–84,

287 , 321

Warsaw, Poland, 108 , 187– 89, 247–50

Warsaw Uprising, 187– 88, 190

Washington, Denzel, 63–64, 133 –35, 251

Washita massacre, 205 , 207

Waskow, Capt. Henry T., 307

Watanabe, Ken, 205–6, 214 –15

Waterston, Sam, 191

Wayne, John, 31 , 85 , 157 , 222–23, 225 ,

243 , 269–71, 302 , 308 –11, 327 , 335 ,

347

We Were Soldiers, 333–36

Wead, Frank “Spig,” 308 –10

Webb, James R., 243 , 255–57

Wehrmacht, 12 , 62– 63, 66–68, 87 , 96 ,

236 , 249 , 277 , 298 –99, 331

Weir, Peter, 30 , 126 , 128 , 226 –27

Weisz, Rachel, 106

Welles, Orson, 50 , 68 , 238

Wellman, William, 23 , 78 , 304–5, 307

Wenders, Wim, 92 , 199 , 355

West Africa, 25–26

Western Desert Campaign, 169

Whitaker, Forest, 251