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...miles south of Mandalay), to seize eight Jap airfields. There and on the way there the British killed 1,600 Japs. With one punch they had severed the enemy's land and water links from Rangoon to Mandalay, and had virtually cut off the main forces defending Burma. The next move was up to the Japs -if they could make...
Objective, Burma! (Errol Flynn, Henry Hull; TIME...
After four months in the Burma jungle, plagued with Delhi sores, and drinking water from mud holes polluted with long-time dead Japs, holding a small disk of glass in one's eye with complete aplomb calls for steel nerves...
Objective, Burma! (Errol Flynn, Henry Hull; TIME...
...Ranald Mac Dougall and Lester Cole), with its careful attention to such matters as insect bites, the yells of jungle birds, the setting of a grenade trap, the use of plasma and salt and atabrine tablets. But still more credit goes to the veteran director, Raoul Walsh. Objective, Burma! gets pretty long, and you can seldom forget that its soldiers are really just actors; but within the limits possible to fictional war movies, it is about as good as they come...