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...Special Air Warfare Center at Eglin seems like a flashback to 1944, when Colonel Philip G. Cochran's (the Flip Corkin of Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates comic strip) 1st Air Commando Force flew P-52s, B-25s and C-47s across the Burma treetops in support of British General Orde Wingate's Chindits. The outfit was disbanded shortly after World War II. But today at Eglin, members of the all-volunteer 1st Air Commando Group work with ancient C46 and C-47 transports, stub-nosed B-26 light bombers, and prop-driven, single-engined...
Merrill's Marauders. In its underkeyed account of jungle fighting and jungle horror, this semi-documentary film signs with honor the ordeal of 3,000 U.S. volunteers fighting behind Japanese lines in Burma...
Merrill's Marauders. In its underkeyed account of jungle fighting and jungle horror, this semi-documentary film signs with honor the ordeal of 3,000 U.S. volunteers fighting behind Japanese lines in Burma...
...picture tells the story of the 3,000 volunteers who crossed Japanese lines in Burma in 1944 and spent five months clearing the enemy out of 5,000 square miles of territory. There are no subplots, and no Ava Gardners miraculously rising out of the rice paddies. There is no false construction toward some climactic victory. It is just a steady series of small victories and long marches, constant death, pervading disease-malaria, typhus, amoebic dysentery, psychoneurosis-and the ultimate wonder that anyone survived...
...concern itself with the politics of the historical incident: only after a high-level investigation were the Marauders given their unit citation and their place among the great heroes of military history. Analyzing nothing, the film makes no point except that a godless Book of Job was written in Burma 18 years...