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With the war not going well for the Soviet Union, Stalin accepted volunteers from the prisons and used the prisoners as shock troops.
There is nothing wrong with the idea, modern day Japanese troops get pulled back in time to the days of Busido warriors and with their modern weapons are a match for almost everything.
When the troops first realise something strange is happening does every single person in the back of the transport need to say "Hey my watch has stopped"?
We see the French resistance staging a daylight raid on Mistral's villa to steal sheets after which they all lounge under a bridge waiting for a lumbering truckload of Nazi troops to surprise and annihilate them?
Several hundred German troops advanced, pushing the Russians into the marsh.
Also it seemed to meander from being about the murderous carnage of our troops to the lack of health care in the states for PTSD.
I doubt even the Salvation Army could battle as poorly as the troops did in this film.
We see transport aircraft flying out fresh troops and returning with wounded soldiers but there's no mention of where these men will be fighting or getting injured.
STARLIFT features two Air Force soldiers hoping to meet fictional starlet Nell Wayne (a mask-like Janice Rule) and persuading a bunch of Warner Bros stars to put on a show for the departing troops.
Actress Ruth Roman's real-life philanthropic gesture to help entertain troops arriving from and leaving for the Korean War at an air base near San Francisco jump-started this all-star Warner Bros. salute to patriotism and song.
The troops pile off the train -- wearing the uniform in which the French Army, including the Legion, marched off to war in 1914!
Metropolitan French troops were put into "horizon blue" and Colonial troops were put into khaki.)
I take it the British troops in it were meant to be SAS (one of the most elite units in the world most would agree with I'm pretty sure) they lost 3 men and the others ran away while the US troops who weren't even Elite soldiers in the fighting sense held the ground and opened up a can of whoop ass on them evil sneaky Iraqis.
There was a scene where I almost vomited, it showed Macarthur in a bunker in Corregidor island talking to the troops like a seasoned politician when he comes across a wounded, one legged Filipino soldier.
There was some nice insight into the appalling difficulties faced by troops in such a foreign environment, and the difficulties in differentiating between friend and foe.
It consists of 1. Gathering the troops and discussing the attack plan, 2. Flashbacks to the men's wives 3. The approach of the troops marching in a long line 4. Men running up hill and shooting, usually the first getting shot in the head then 3 other men rescuing him.
Oscar nominated for Best Leading Actor, Marlon Brando plays Major Lloyd Gruver, a Korean War flying ace reassigned to Japan, who staunchly supports the military's opposition to marriages between American troops and Japanese women and tries without any success to talk his friend Joe Kelly out of getting married.
There were a lot of films made by Hollywood during the war years that were designed to drum up support for our troops from the public.
When he did Opfergang and they put a mustache on him plus his own suntan that made him plain looking.You see the Nazi soldiers acting normal,like a scene in which a ex butcher and his troops are in France and they steal pigs from a farm and they are about to make lunch until their leader suggest to save the pigs.
In todays context of supporting our troops, it is interesting this movie showed the lack of respect soldiers received from doing their duty, during this period.
These are elite troops that know what they are doing and take great pride in it.
Whether you support the war or not, it is OUR duty to support the troops with something other than a bumper sticker.
We must support our troops by bringing them home IMMEDIATELY, before another person is killed or injured.
The series captures the rivalry between Mountbatten and the American generals, the suffering of German troops on the Eastern front, the maltreatment of Japanese prisoners of war by American troops.
On that front, one wonders why an Austrian movie was made about an English queen; but then one remembers that in 1954, Austria was still under occupation by allied troops, including British ones.
The ending is brilliantly cut by schumacher - with the melodic harmony singing and the slow mo of the troops preparing to leave.
Jane, you must remember, was part of the escapist fantasy of the wartime years, created to boost the morale of the troops.
You know, I thought I had seen it all--San Franciscans protesting going into Afghanistan after witnessing the devastation of the 9/11 attacks, the daily drum-beat of every metropolitan newspaper blaming the US for all the world's atrocities (led by the fanatical liberals at the NYT), the Cindy Sheehans of the world blaming our president for war crimes, and on, and on, and on-- but I will never understand the likes of people that claim they "love this country," "support the troops," and believe in national security, meanwhile stabbing our leaders in the back every chance they get with the daily gratuitous, ad hominem attacks and movies like Death of a President.
Secondly,the film is saturated with bad acting, senseless dialog, contemporary uniforms,weaponry and vehicles (check out the "U.S. troops" wearing Spanish Army camouflage uniforms, helmets - which are a direct copy of the old German M1944, poorly concealed by helmet covers and brandishing CETMEs -Spanish copies of the G3 7.62mm automatic rifles).
He was a doctor above all else, patching up the troops and making sure the people in every village they passed through had the care and attention they needed.
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